Co-founded with Iain Boal, Gillian Boal, Pauline van Mourik Broekman and Howard Slater in September 2011 after a scoping period going back to early 2010. Against a backdrop of austerity cuts and threats posed to numerous archive collections, libraries, social/community centres and feminist/women’s spaces, an international meeting was called to determine a response. ‘Archiving From Below: Engaging Histories’ in May 2011, resulted in a commitment to build an organisation and locate a premises, providing temporary safe haven for vulnerable historical material and groups.
MAYDAY ROOMS TIMELINE.
The following has been compiled from founder member Anthony Davies’ personal archive, including associated digital files (e.g., emails, invites, audio/visual files etc.) and will be updated as and when more material comes to light. The dates in this timeline are consistent with numerous texts/articles in the public domain and as a representative sample, those listed below either directly reference or were written by MayDay Rooms founder members:
–Manifest. The MayDay Manifesto. Future. Front. Novum. Gillian Boal, Iain Boal, Anthony Davies, Nils Norman, Howard Slater, Pauline van Mourik Broekman. Spring 2011
–Archiving with MayDay Rooms. Peter Linebaugh. Counterpunch. February 1, 2013.
–A Brief History. Iain Boal, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Anthony Davies and Howard Slater. MDR Website. February. 2013.
–Archiving from Below: MayDay Rooms in context’. Dr. Pauline van Mourik Broekman. Remap Blog. August 7, 2024:
KEY EVENTS
Formative Meeting: August 25, 2009
Inaugural Event: May 7-9, 2011
Listed as a Charity: September 20, 2011
Move into 88 Fleet Street: May 2012
Website Launch: July 2012
88 Fleet Street opens: October 2013
Building Collective: April 2014
Organisational Review: June-October 2014
New Appointments: December 2014
Core Staff Resignations: April-June 2016
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