Tags

1930s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Anarchism

Anti-Apartheid

Anti-Austerity

Anti-Fascism

Anti-Nuclear Movement

Anti-Psychiatry

Anti-Racism

Anti-zionism

Anti/Alter-Globalisation

Autonomist

Black Liberation Movement

Cinema

Civil Liberties

Claimants Union

Class uprisings

Communism

Community Campaigns

Cooperative Movement

Countering Education

Decolonisation

Direct Action

Environmentalism

Experimental Culture

Feminism

Free Party Movement

History from Below

Housing Struggles

Irish Struggles

Italian Language

Left-Communism

Libertarian Communist

Marxism

Marxist-Feminism

Migrant Organising

Municipalism

National Liberation Stuggles

Peace Movement

Photography

Police Monitoring

Political Education

Prison Resistance

Psychogeography

Publications

Punk

Queer Movements

Radical Architecture

Radical Arts

Radical ecology

Reparations campaigns

Republicanism

Situationist

Socialism

Spanish Language

Squatting

State Monitoring

State Violence

Student Movements

Technology

Trade Unions

Underground Music

Underground Press

Women’s Liberation Movement

Work/Anti-Work

Workerism

Workers' Movement

Visit Us

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

We are open: Wednesday–Friday, 11–6pm

Please contact us to book an archival appointment:
in-formation [AT] maydayrooms.org


Find us at:
88 Fleet Street
London
EC4Y 1DH

Tel: 0203 930 9297


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.

More

Help us keep going

While we receive some funding, and often apply for small grants for projects, our core operations currently run at a loss. Your donation, whatever its size, will mean that our staff can continue to organise and help maintain our building, keep our events free, activate our historical material, and facilitate a much-needed meeting place in central London in the spirit of solidarity. Anything you can give is greatly appreciated!

More

Upcoming & Recent Events

More
March 14 @ 6:00 pm

BSL PRACTICE & SKILL SHARE

Tuesday 14th & 28th March, 6 – 8:30 pm @ MayDay Rooms BSL practice for level 3+, come along and practice your BSL!  Conversation, presentation and receptive practice, bring your […]

March 31 @ 7:00 pm

RADICAL PEDAGOGIES SERIES: MENTAL HEALTHCARE BEYOND INSTITUTIONS: FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION with RED THERAPY

MayDay Rooms presents a series of workshops exploring radical pedagogies which produce new ways of learning and activate alternative political futures. This month’s workshop will be facilitated by Red Therapy! […]

March 18 @ 2:00 pm

UNCOVERING THE ARCHIVE: YOUTH WORKSHOP (16-25) WITH BLOOM

Following from our successful pilot session with Lola Olufemi, we are back with Iniva to bring you another archival collaboration with the Bloom collective! These workshops are intended for young […]

March 18 @ 11:00 am

WORKSHOP: EAST END WOMEN IN PRINT: GRAPHIC ARTS AND SELF-PUBLISHING

Saturday 18th March, 11 am – 4 pm @ Tower Hamlets Local History Archive & Library, 277 Bancroft Road London E1 4DQ Come and browse collections from THLHLA and MayDay […]

March 10 @ 7:00 pm

MAYDAY ROOMS SOCIAL!

Our next social of the year will be hosted by new building collective members Living Free UK! Living Free emerged from the struggles of millions of LGBTIQ+ Africans who are […]

Archive Blog

More

February 8, 2023

Archive of the Month: The Worker Photographer

September 1, 2022

Archive of the Month: Haringey Solidarity Group (HSG)

July 11, 2022

Archive of the Month: Dockers Charters

June 1, 2022

Brixton Gentrification Struggles 1993-2021: A Timeline

May 2, 2022

Archive of the Month: Deaf Histories

MayDay Rooms Projects

All Projects

New Architectural Movement Digital Archive

A unique collection of documents from a significant activist movement that challenged the established order of architectural practice both in the private and public sectors goes online in November. In the mid-1970s the New Architecture Movement (NAM) gave a voice to progressive and inclusive initiatives that encouraged people to promote social change and greater equality through their work in the built environment.

The launch of NAM’s archive provides both a new resource for historical research and also a challenge to present and future generations in the field to reinterpret and apply NAM’s radical ideas to current issues. NAM brought together young idealistic architects, engineers and planners from across the UK seeking ways to reform working practices and the planning and development process. In an intensely productive period from 1975-80 the movement ran workshops, campaigns and seminars on a range of issues – professional education and governance, workplace structures, feminism, public sector design, worker unionisation – to create an alternative vision that put the priorities of people and communities ahead of developers,corporations and officials.

Uncovering the Archive

Uncovering the Archive is an archival collaboration between MayDay Rooms and Iniva. We are offering a free series of workshops and screenings to existing youth programmes with an aim to engage young people (16-25) from marginalised communities such as Black and QTIPOC/PGM*, working class, migrant and Disabled. The intention is to introduce the archive as a resource and archiving as a mode of storytelling available to, and representative of, the identities and lives of those normally excluded from history making practices. By working with the collections held both at MDR and Iniva, the programme aims to offer young people with the tools to confidently explore, interrogate and create the stories they want to tell or wish were told through engaging activities that center creative play, conversation and making. By introducing young people to places, digital spaces and people that are made for/representative of them, we hope to empower their claim to history and uphold the integrity of what is important to them.

Stuart Christie Memorial Archive

The Stuart Christie Memorial Archive was founded in the spring of 2021 and is hosted by the Mayday Rooms.  The Archive, brought together by researcher Jess Thorne, preserves Stuart Christie’s private library, personal correspondence, his publishing endeavours, oral testimony, radical ephemera and an extensive online library of anarchist films.  In an ongoing process, the archive is being expanded to include a larger collection of oral histories, which will explore the sequence of revolts associated with ‘1968’ and the long winter of reaction that followed in the 1970’s.

Skip to content