Geoff Andrews is an historian and biographer who has taught in adult education for many years. He is the author of several books on twentieth century British history, the history of political ideas and movements, political biography and Italian politics. His new book, Radicals: the Working Classes and the Making of Modern Britain  (Yale University Press, 2026) is a major study of the contribution of the working classes across politics, trade unions, literature, education and culture in the twentieth century to the making of modern Britain. It draws on a range of new material and is informed by years of researching and writing about the labour movement and the left. The book provides a bold and challenging argument that the contribution of the working classes to the making of modern Britain has been seriously neglected and undervalued.

Before Radicals he wrote three political biographies. The Shadow Man (2015) is a biography of the communist intellectual James Klugmann; Agent Molière (2020) is the first full account of the life of John Cairncross, the fifth man of the Cambridge spy circle and Smooth Operator (2021) tells the story of Cyril Lakin, the Welsh politician, broadcaster and journalist.

Geoff has written two books about Italy. Not a Normal Country: Italy After Berlusconi, is based on his travels, interviews and experiences of living in Italy (in Bologna, Rome and Bra) during the Berlusconi era. This was followed by a very different book about modern Italy. The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure was published in the UK and North America in 2008 (and in Italy in 2010 as ‘Slow Food: Una storia tra politica e piacere’).

His writing has been featured on several BBC programmes including The Today Programme (Radio 4), Thinking Allowed (R4), The Essay (R3), Nightwaves (R3), The Food Programme (R4), The Jeremy Vine Show (R2) and the BBC World Service. He has written for the New Statesman, Financial Times, Prospect, Open Democracy, Times Higher Education, Marxism Today and La Stampa. He is a former associate editor of Soundings.

Geoff is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Society of Authors.