She became a member of the House of Lords, having been granted a life peerage, in 1990, and remained active in politics until her death in 2002 at the age of 91. Barbara Anne Betts was born on 6 October 1910 at 64 Derby Road, Chesterfield, the youngest of three children to Frank Betts and his wife Annie Rebecca (née Ferrand). [1] .

In her personal life, she fell in love with a gifted left-wing journalist, William Mellor. Mellor, however, was married and never divorced his wife. Personal disappointments were largely forgotten as the second world conflagration in a generation began to …

2017年3月25日 · Barbara Castle was a British MP under the Wilson government. The choices she made affect our daily lives today (making seat belts mandatory as Minister of Transport and fighting for the Equal Pay Act being just two of them). Although she was very well known at the time, she has been somewhat forgotten nowadays, fading in Margaret Thatcher’s shadow.

Baroness Castle, the left-wing flame-headed political tornado, was the best-known woman parliamentarian of her day and once looked like becoming Britain's first female Prime Minister

Barbara Castle, the fiery former Labour Cabinet minister and the best-known woman parliamentarian of her day, died yesterday aged 91. The architect of the Breathalyser who was tipped to become Britain’s first woman Prime Minister, was hailed by political friend and foe alike.

Barbara Castle was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 - 1979. Often described as 'radical' and 'outspoken', she paved the way for women in politics.

Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC (née Betts; 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1979, making her one of the longest-serving female MPs in British history.

2023年2月24日 · Barbara Castle was a woman of many titles, a political powerhouse who refused to be silenced by the confines of her gender or society's expectations. In 1974, her husband Ted Castle was made a life peer, meaning that Barbara could now be addressed as Lady Castle, but she spurned this title as she was not one for empty gestures.

2002年5月3日 · Barbara Castle spent her formative years in Bradford before attending the University of Oxford where she read philosophy, politics and economics. In 1937, after working for her local Labour Party in Hyde and as a columnist for the left-wing paper Tribune, she became a Labour Party councillor for the borough of St Pancras, where she worked ...

She was born as Barbara Anne Betts in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She grew up in Pontefract and Bradford, Yorkshire. She graduated from St Hugh's College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She adopted her family's politics, which were left wing. Castle joined the Labour Party.