Barbara Castle

Standard Name: Castle, Barbara

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Residence	Deborah Levy	Norman Levy learned years later that the special forces had not wanted him to be allowed to leave South Africa. Nor would the family, without passports, have secured entry to Britain without a letter of...
Textual Production	Christabel Pankhurst	OCLC lists forty copies of this publication surviving in libraries (many at bible colleges or theological seminaries), but not one outside North America: the title is not held by the British Library , the Bodleian

Timeline

July 1945

Journalist Barbara Castle was elected a Labour member of the British Parliament , where she served for thirty-four years.

Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.

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1965

Barbara Castle (a Labour MP of twenty years' standing, and the future architect of the Equal Pay Act, 1970) became the first female minister of state on her appointment as Minister of Transport.

“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

Texts

Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin, 1987.