For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.

The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.