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

My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

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

Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

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

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.