88 Fleet Street
London EC4Y 1DH,
UK

MayDay Rooms i(MDR) is an educational charity founded as a safe haven for historical material linked to social movements, experimental culture and the radical expression of marginalised figures and groups. It offers communal spaces - a reading room, a meeting and screening room and a canteen - where this material can be explored and researched, to activate its potential in relation to current struggles and informal research. MDR's growing collections challenge the widespread assault on collective memory and historical continuity by countering those prevalent narratives of historical inevitability and political pessimism. Working in a broad range of media, from printed documents to film and ephemera, the core work of MDR is to activate and socialise this material in a number of linked processes - primarily collaborative education, digitisation and online distribution. MDR aims always to make historical material open to question and criticism; as much as this material contests the present, it still needs to be challenged by it.
The organisation is located in Fleet Street, Central London, but is informally linked in inspiration, collaboration and practice with an international network of common and concurrent initiatives.

Website: http://maydayrooms.org

Areas of Expertise:

Labour History Left History People's History Workers' History