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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.

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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 23 @ 6:00 pm

Voices of Resistance: From the Freedom Flotilla to the Great March of Return

During the evening, we are going to discuss some of the ways in which international activists and Palestinians have attempted to break the blockade imposed on Gaza since 2008. By […]

November 22 @ 6:00 pm

We Are Sudamerican Printers: La Linterna European Tour

La Linterna, (The Lantern) is a letterpress printing workshop based in Cali, Colombia, which was established in 1934. It is dedicated to artisan printing of posters using linoleum engraving and […]

December 9 @ 11:00 am

(POSTPONED) Winter Archive Open Day

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL 20TH JANUARY 2024- LOOK OUT FOR UPDATES We know that for some of you, it is not always possible to visit our archive during […]

November 22 @ 7:00 pm

VAGUE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF ANARCHO-PUNK FANZINES with Tom Vague and Tony D (Ripped And Torn/Kill Your Pet Puppy) 

To celebrate the publication, by PC-Press of a brand new compendium ‘Vague Fanzines Book, Vol. 1: 1979-1984: Issues 1-15’, which lovingly reproduces the first 15 issues of Vague in A4-sized […]

November 21 @ 6:30 pm

Scanathon: Greenham Common Women’s Peace Movement 

 Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp (1981-2000) was a historic protest camp established by women to oppose the presence of nuclear weapons at RAF Greenham Common, in Berkshire, England. The camp […]

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November 3, 2023

Collection of the Month: Palestinian Solidarity Posters:

September 1, 2023

Collection of the Month: Socialisme ou Barbarie 

MDR International: Warsaw and Amsterdam

July 3, 2023

MDR International: St Imier and Modena

February 8, 2023

Archive of the Month: The Worker Photographer

MayDay Rooms Projects

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For Peace!

ARCHIVE AND EXHIBITION

We are collecting materials and stories from live and historical campaigns working for peace. We want to create an inspiring open-access archive showing a wide range of campaigns and movements. Peace groups, demilitarisation activities, anti-militarist campaigns, feminist responses to war, anti-war mobilisations, pacifist education are just some examples of what we’re looking for. We want leaflets, interviews, oral histories, newspapers, videos, films, banners, stencils to be made available online and in a touring exhibition. No contribution is too small! We will favour campaigns active within our lifetimes, but would be happy to consider materials dating all the way back to the opposition to the First World War. The geographical focus is Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but we are also interested in international and transnational campaigns.

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. By working with the collections held at MDR, partnered archives, cultural spaces and creative practitioners working with archives, 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 centre 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 what is important to them.

The Cost-of-Living Crisis and Histories of Direct Action

The current cost-of-living crisis has incentivised a number of strikes in workplaces and sectors all across the country. However, the sphere of production isn’t the only place where a revitalisation of struggle is emerging. Struggles in the sphere of circulation, from energy bill refusal to mass shoplifting, have re-emerged as proletarian responses to our ongoing crises. From Marius Jacob’s ‘night workers’ to the ‘proletarian shopping’ of 1970s Italy, from the Poll Tax federations to student rent strikes, there is a historical precedent for this activity that must be explored and analysed if we wish to push these contemporary struggles further.


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