Latest Past Events
Archiving from Below Discussion Series: Archive Stories with Sara Salem and Mai Taha
MayDay Rooms 88 Fleet Street, LondonArchive Stories looks at how we can work with creative and non-traditional archives. The project wants to create a space for conversations about archiving beyond institutional archives, and to think through the possibilities that emerge when we imagine the archive as expansive and as encompassing everything around us. What does it mean to […]
Archival film night: Wages for Housework and beyond! 1970s Feminist Activism on Film in London and NY
MayDay Rooms 88 Fleet Street, LondonJoin us at Mayday Rooms for an archival film night to watch and discuss 1970s grassroots feminist activism in NYC and London! Following up on a series of archival film nights earlier this year, this event will use the campaign for Wages for Housework in London and NYC as an entry point […]
Digging Where You Stand: Community-led and Movement Archiving with Andrew Flinn
MayDay Rooms 88 Fleet Street, LondonArchiving From Below Discussion Series Drawing on the first English language version of the Swedish author and activist Sven Lindqvist’s influential 1978 workers’ radical history manual (Dig Where You Stand 2023, Repeater Books, ed. by myself & Astrid von Rosen), this discussion will introduce the philosophy and practice embedded in Lindqvist’s workers' DIY history manual, […]