This unedited interview series with Minnie Appleby offers a rare and personal account of 20th-century leftist politics across Britain and Australia. Born in 1900, Appleby was a suffragette, Communist Party activist, working woman, mother and later a supporter of the women’s liberation movement in Australia. Recorded in 1981, just a year before her death, these oral histories capture the reflections of a “loyal tubthumper” whose life spanned major social and political transformations, providing an invaluable first-hand perspective on the intersection of gender, labour and ideology.