Visit Us
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
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.
MoreHelp 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.
MoreUpcoming & Recent Events
MoreElephant and Castle: a story of anti-gentrification struggles
Meet at 56a Infoshop, 56 Crampton St, London SE17 3AE The Elephant and Castle has been one of the epicenters in the squatting movement, counterculture and challenges to social cleansing […]
Rolling our own! Feminist Magazines and Women’s Liberation with Liberating Histories
From Spare Rib to Red Rag to Shocking Pink, activist periodicals of the 1970s-80s powered, connected and sustained the UK Women’s Liberation Movement. As the socialist-feminist magazine Scarlet Women put […]
Archival film night! 1970s childcare activism in London and NYC
Assembling together a variety of short documentary films from the 1970s, this event will highlight the often overlooked politics of and experiments with collective childcare historically and what reflections or […]
Exarcheia Anti-Gentrification Timeline Launch
Join us for the launch of the Exarcheia Anti-Gentrification Timeline – a project aimed at mapping anti-gentrification struggles that have happened in Exarcheia over the last three years. Recently, gentrification […]
HARRAGA! Archiving the experiences of small-boat migration across the Mediterranean and the English Channel
A talk by Ed Emery [Red Notes / SOAS] The decade-long experience of small-boat migration across the Mediterranean is known in North Africa as “harraga” – the burning of one’s […]
