Browse Collections (53 total)

Dissenting Ephemera 2000-Present

Dissenting Ephemera 1970s – Women’s Movement

These materials, dubbed ‘dissenting ephemera’, were delivered to Mayday Rooms as a contextual backdrop to the October 2014 reunion of East London Big…

Dissenting Ephemera 1970s – Miscellaneous

These materials, dubbed ‘dissenting ephemera’, were delivered to Mayday Rooms as a contextual backdrop to the October 2014 reunion of East London Big…

Dissenting Ephemera – 1980-2000

Communist Headache_ Notes for Post-Existence Second Series - Ian Trowell & Various.pdf

Continuing with the moniker of ‘dissenting ephemera’ coined by East London Big Flame this sizeable collection of independent publications is available…

Countering Education

Catherine Pozzo di Borgo Collection

Manifesto_for_a_political_programme_Compressed.pdf

Materials donated by Catherine Pozzo di Borgo to MayDay Rooms. The collection includes a material by King Mob and other British situationists,…

Camerawork

Camerawork was a significant documentary photographic journal. It originated from the work of a number of photographers, who assembled around the Half…

Big Flame

Named after a play by Liverpudlian writer, Jim Allen, Big Flame started out in the early 70s as a rank and file newspaper that gradually developed…

Association of Autonomous Astronauts

Variously seen as a Situationist-inspired prank, an extended metaphor, a form of Exodus and a campaign to redistribute superwealth, the Association of…

Artist Union

As part of the Unionising Workshop held at Flaxman Lodge in June 2004 a collection of materials (newsletters, leaflets, letters etc.) relating to the…

Anti-Globalisation Protest

sharpscanner@maydayrooms.com_20170707_135450_Compressed.pdf

Anarchist Ephemera

Not being centred upon political parties or trade union bureaucracies, which often had their own publishing infrastructures, the anarchist scene was,…

'A' Course

AC_Contextual Studies003.jpg

In the late spring of 1969 four members of the teaching staff in the Sculpture Department at St. Martins School of Art in London began work on a…