Browse Collections (126 total)

For Peace!

Ford Struggles

A small collection of materials from workers struggles at Ford Dagenham plant from the 1960s through to the 1970s

Four Corners

In 1973, behind a shopfront at 113 Roman Road, London E1, four young filmmakers – Joanna Davis, Mary Pat Leece, Ronald Peck and Wilf Thust – set up a…

Freedom

Sundry copies of Freedom, ranging from the years 1924 to 1996, donated by Housman’s Bookshop. Freedom, a magazine of ‘anarchist socialism’ (later…

GLC story

”The GLC Story” project has deposited several boxes of publications and documents from the radical years of the GLC between 1981 and 1986. This…

Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

In 2014 Gwyn Kirk deposited six organized boxes of personal papers at MayDay Rooms relating to her long and deep involvement with the Greenham Common…

Greenline Magazine

A complete run of 36 issues of Greenline Magazine, which Jon published between 1982 and 1985. These magazines document the early years of the radical…

Haringey Solidarity Group (HSG)

Haringey Solidarity Group (HSG) started life as the Anti-Poll Tax group in Haringey. Once the Poll Tax was defeated most Anti-Poll Tax groups around…

History Workshop Journal & Associated

Copies of the early issues of History Workshop: A Journal of Socialist Historians, donated by Anna Davin of the founding editorial collective. The…

HMP

This collection gathered pace after the donation of a file of press cuttings and commentary around the Strangeways Prison Rebellion of April 1990 and…

Housing Struggles

More materials have been added to our Housing Struggles archive as part of our HLF-funded project. The collections include paper and digital archives…

Housing Struggles 1975-1991

This collection was deposited with MayDay Rooms by Jane Foot, ex-member of East London Big Flame. It mainly includes material from CASE UK (Campaign…

Housing Struggles Digital Collection

More materials have been added to our Housing Struggles archive as part of our HLF-funded project. The collections include paper and digital archives…

Inventory

This journal for fierce sociology, for finding, losing and collecting, first appeared in the mid ‘90s and continued in various forms for a decade. The…

Irish Struggles after 1968

A small collection of Republican ephemera from the late 1960s and 1970s during the first years of the troubles. These include an extremely rare nearly…

Contributors: Jenny Earle

Italia Rossa

Inspired by the fruitful of exchange of Big Flame, Midnight Notes & Zeroworks with Italian political and theoretical developments, MayDay rooms has…

J18

Two collections comprising materials from Kevin Biderman and Nicola Kirkham. They include documents, ephemera, and film from the anti-globalisation…

Jewish Socialist

Jewish Socialist Magazine

A full run of Jewish Socialist Magazine, the journal of the Jewish Socialist Group. The group, which formed in Manchester in the mid-1970s has…

Jubilee 2000 Afrika Campaign & Associated

MayDay Rooms collection of materials related to the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the group that has gathered around it has led to a…

Kennington Park

Kennington Park's ‘hidden past’ is tightly linked with radical working-class history that pivoted on the Enclosure of Kennington Common in the…

Contributors: Various

King Mob & Associated

On the occasion of a new translation of Raoul Vaneigem’s Revolution of Everyday Life (PM Press, Oakland), translator and former member of King Mob,…

Latin American Workers Association- LAWAS

The Latin American Workers Association was based in London and active in two phases the early 1980s and then 2002-13. Many of its activists went on to…

Libertarian Education

From its beginnings as the Libertarian Teachers Association in 1966 up to its present day incarnation as an e-magazine and book publisher the shifting…

London Psychogeographical Association

The LPA was first mooted in 1957 by the British artist Ralph Rumney who was amicably expelled from the Situationist International for his failure to…

London Radical Press

Lucas Plan

In 1974 the management of Lucas Aerospace, an engineering firm that manufactured aircraft components for both military and civilian use, announced…

Midnight Notes

The Midnight Notes collective, which marked a coming together of various radical strands of US left politics, began publishing its journal in 1979.…

Miscellaneous Pamphlets

Pamphlets have been in existence for as long as the printing press and are often associated with sedition and the distribution of censored and hard to…

New Architectural Movement

New England Prisoners' Association News

Subtitled “The Voice of the New England Prisoners’ Association”, these newspapers, with articles in the main written by prisoners themselves, are the…

Organised Sqautting 1968- 2012

This is a collection that Chris Jones, resident at MDR, created based on his research on the politics of organised squatting in London from 1968 to…

Peace News

Peace News (PN) is a pacifist magazine first published on 6 June 1936 to serve the peace movement in the United Kingdom. From later in 1936 to April…

Politics of Organised Squatting

Poll Tax Rebellion

For many the revolt against the imposition of the Poll Tax marks a unique moment in British social history. This Tax, effectively replacing a property…

Poster Film Collective

Formed in the early 70s by ex-tutors and students from several London Art Colleges, the Poster Film Collective produced a series of hand-printed…

Professional Issues

A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing
as elected councillors on the Architects Registration…

Psyche-Pol

Working in the space between politics and psychotherapy poses many questions: How do we overcome the resistance to talking about and through emotion?…

Psyche-Pol

The Psyche-Pol research project took place at MayDay Rooms in November 2013 and was initiated by Howard Slater and Tine Tvergaard and directly…

Public Design Group

Argued that it was only through the public sector that the majority of people could have access to the land and resources needed for housing,…

Queeruption & Associated

Queeruption was a rolling international DIY festival that took place eight times between 1998 and 2000. The intention behind these ad hoc festivals,…

Race Today

The magazine Race Today was set up in 1969 by the Institute for Race Relations (IRR). Following a break from the IRR four years later, publication…

Radical and Militant Poetry

Radical Philosophy

Radical Posters

Reclaim The Streets & Associated

Reclaim the Streets (RTS) began in London during the 1990s, both as a playful form of protest in the guise of a street party, which was soon…

Red Notes 1973 & Associated

Publications produced by Red Notes, including activist pamphlets, histories, and translations. These include Ed Emery’s extensive translations of…

Resistance Comix & Associated

Resistance Comics hailed from Belfast and according to the Irish Comics Wiki the ten issues that appeared between 1975 and 1978 were the work of…

Resurgence (1969-1971)

Resurgence Magazine was founded by John Papworth, Leopold Kohr, E. F. Schumacher, and Herbert Read in 1966. The magazine described itself as a…

Schooling & Culture 1977 – 1985

Schooling & Culture journal was a collaboration between a group of radical left educationalists and young working class school students that began in…