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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
Please contact us to book an archival appointment:
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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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.
MoreUpcoming & Recent Events
MoreArchiving from Below Discussion Series: Archiving as a communist inventory? with Agit Press
Sooner or later everything gets recuperated by our political enemies. Despite their warnings even the situationists were unable to escape this fate. Obviously, we don’t give up on militant ideas […]
Archival Film Club: Watermelon Women
Join us for a screening of Cheryl Dunye’s debut feature The Watermelon Woman (1996), a cult classic of the New Queer Cinema movement. The film follows Cheryl, a young Black […]
Big Flame: Building the Movements, New Politics
Join us for an evening with ex-Big Flamers Max Farrar and Kevin McDonnell, who will be discussing their new book, Big Flame: Building the Movements, New Politics, published by Merlin […]
Screening: Ultraviolence
The silence over the police killings of Black people is broken. Over two thousand people died at the hands of police in the UK. Inevitably police officers involved are not […]
Archival Film Night for LGBTQ+ History Month: The Archivettes (2019)
When a group of women in the Gay Academic Union founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives in the mid-1970s, they did so in explicit recognition that lesbian herstory ‘was disappearing […]
