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MayDay Rooms is an archive, resource and safe haven for social movements, experimental and marginal cultures and their histories.

We are open: Wednesday–Friday, 11–6pm

There is no need to book an appointment to visit the archive during our opening hours, but if you have a specific request please email us in advance.
in-formation [AT] maydayrooms.org


Find us at:
88 Fleet Street
London
EC4Y 1DH

 


Using the Space

We offer free organising and event space  for unfunded activist and self-organised education groups, and we ask those who can afford to make a donation on a sliding scale to support the space.

The space is bookable from Monday-Friday and sometimes at the weekend.

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Help us keep going

Join the MDR’s Friends scheme to help us sustain our archive as a resource for movements today, to continue to programme events and outreach around our collections, and provide meeting spaces, all free of cost.

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Upcoming & Recent Events

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November 26 @ 6:30 pm

Archiving From Below: Collect, Preserve, Share, Organise with London Community Video Archive (LCVA) 

Wednesday 26th November, 6.30-9.30pm at Pelican House For this edition of Archiving From Below, Mayday Rooms are hosting the London Community Video Archive (LCVA) for a special screening event at […]

November 20 @ 4:00 pm

Relaunching the LSE Agitator! with LSE SU Students for Justice in Palestine

The LSE SU Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) have resurrected the revolutionary pamphlet created by the LSE Socialist Society in the 1960s, ‘The Agitator’! The pamphlet served to bring […]

November 10 @ 7:00 pm

Search for the American Worker with Kevin Van Meter and Agit Press

Beginning with the 1947 publication of The American Worker pamphlet a new form of “proletarian literature”—first-person narratives of work and workers’ inquiries—emerged from the automotive factories and corners of Marxian […]

November 5 @ 7:00 pm

LETTERS TO A FUTURE REPUBLIC: SELECTED WRITINGS OF ED EMERY with Agit Press 

Join Ed Emery and Agit Press for a discussion on Ed’s history and activity in the revolutionary communist movement, his role in the international diffusion of autonomist Marxism, and what […]

November 2 @ 7:00 pm

Palestine Cinema Days – Around The World 2025 Jenin, Jenin (2002) by Mohammad Bakri

MayDay Rooms is thrilled to participate in “Palestine Cinema Days – Around The World 2025” with a screening of Mohammad Bakri’s “Jenin, Jenin” (2002). In response to efforts to erase […]

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October 1, 2025

MDR x DOPE Magazine: Disarming the War State

May 30, 2025

History from Below in DOPE Magazine: ‘… Do They Think Guitars and Microphones are Just Fucking Toys?’ *

April 22, 2025

Student Movement Oral History Archive….loading

February 10, 2025

ARCHIVE OF THE MONTH: U.S Underground Newspaper 1968- 1970

MDR X DOPE MAGAZINE: TROOPS OUT NOW!

MayDay Rooms Projects

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Archiving from Below

Since its inception, MayDay Rooms has been built on the principle of archiving from below, challenging the conventional institutional methods of gathering, shaping, and disseminating the history of struggles.

After over a decade of archiving, we are launching a reading and discussion group to address the practices of archiving from below and strategies of activating the histories of resistance. 

The group is open to archivists, researchers, historians involved in both past and present organising, and anyone interested in radical archives. Our aim is to share our own approach, learn from each other, and collaboratively develop counter-archival practices that extend beyond mere critique.

For Peace!

Britain is currently entering a new cycle of rearmament, expanding the reach of its nuclear capability, increasing military spending for NATO, and continuing to support Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Those opposing this escalation have been met with increasing repression, through the use of counter-terror legislation, draconian sentencing of protesters and the proscription of groups engaged in direct action.

In this context, this project revisit the peace movement’s material history, trying to better understand the diversity of tactics and intersecting movements which have shaped it. We hope that this projects acts as a resource and inspiration for those struggling for a demilitarised world today. For Peace! interweaves historical strands from the workers’ movement, Women’s Liberation, anti-colonial, socialist, and anarchist movements to address questions of non-violence, class, international solidarity, and the role of liberation struggles. There were four different component parts: a digital multimedia collection which is part of the Activist Media Project, two exhibitions at Glasgow Women’s Library and Four Corners Gallery, an online version of the exhibition and a publication.

Uncovering the Archive

The programme offers a free series of workshops & screenings with an aim to engage young people (18-25) from marginalised backgrounds and/or those who have not engaged with archives before or are not currently in higher education. The intention is to introduce the archive as a resource and archiving as a mode of storytelling available to, and representative of, those who are normally excluded from history- making practices.

The programme offers a free series of workshops & screenings with an aim to engage young people (18-25) from marginalised backgrounds and/or those who have not engaged with archives before or are not currently in higher education. The intention is to introduce the archive as a resource and archiving as a mode of storytelling available to, and representative of, those who are normally excluded from history- making practices.


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