Laura Agustín has been a writer, researcher and critical historian — not to say rebel —all her life. She has been a Londoner since the 1960s, although she has lived in numerous countries. Author of Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry , she has for many years focused on getting the stories out of women marginalised because of being poor, foreign, ‘different’ or doing jobs some folks think are wrong. She spends time in the Manuscript Room of the British Library looking for clues to how women lived 1000 years ago, and couldn’t stop reading even if she wanted to. She is known as The Naked Anthropologist. She has qualified as a tour guide in order to take this focus to the streets, where guided history walks rarely talk about the poor except as objects of charity.