Barbara Castle (1910–2002)
Autor von The Castle Diaries 1974-76
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(eng) Per LoC authorities, Castle, Barbara, 1910- and Castle, Barbara, 1911- are the same person. 1911 date of birth is an old/erroneous entry; LoC subsequently corrected author's date of birth to 1910.
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Castle, Barbara
- Andere Namen
- Castle, Barbara Anne
Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
Betts, Barbara Anne (birth name) - Geburtstag
- 1910-10-06
- Todestag
- 2002-05-03
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- England
UK - Geburtsort
- Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Ausbildung
- University of Oxford (St Hugh's College)
- Berufe
- Cabinet Minister
journalist
politician
Member of Parliament
Member of the House of Lords
Labour Government Minister (Zeige alle 9)
Member of the European Parliament
diarist
autobiographer - Beziehungen
- Castle, Ted (husband)
- Organisationen
- Labour Party
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Life Peerage, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, 1989
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo - Kurzbiographie
- Barbara Castle, later Baroness Castle of Blackburn, was born in Chesterfield, England, to a politically active family. When she was 12, the family moved to Bradford in West Yorkshire, where her father Frank Betts became editor of the Bradford Pioneer, a socialist newspaper, and her mother Annie ran a soup kitchen for the town's miners. Barbara joined the Labour Party as a teenager and organized mock elections at her secondary school, in which she stood as the Labour candidate. She went on to read philosophy, politics, and economic at Oxford University. In Oxford she began her serious political activity, serving as treasurer of the Oxford University Labour Club. She was elected to St. Pancras Borough Council in 1937, and spoke at the annual Labour Party Conference in 1943 for the first time. In 1944, she married Ted Castle, a journalist, and became the housing correspondent at the Daily Mirror. In the 1945 general election, she was elected Member of Parliament for Blackburn, beginning a long career that made her one of the most significant Labour Party politicians of the 20th century and the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons, until that record was broken after her death. In the government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson she held a number of Cabinet positions, including as Secretary of State for Employment, Secretary of State for Health and Social Services, and First Secretary of State. After she left Parliament, she became the Member of the European Parliament for Greater Manchester from 1979 to 1989. In 1990, she was made a life peer in her own right (her husband had previously received a peerage). The Castle Diaries, 1964 to 1976, were published in 1980-1984, and her autobiography, Fighting All The Way, appeared in 1993.
- Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
- Per LoC authorities, Castle, Barbara, 1910- and Castle, Barbara, 1911- are the same person. 1911 date of birth is an old/erroneous entry; LoC subsequently corrected author's date of birth to 1910.
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The first Labour Prime Minister that I actually remember was Harold Wilson and so, naturally, I read his biography (a good replacement for Mogadon) and now Barbara Castle's tome. She never made the top job but, was a member of the inner sanctum for many years making her someone with much to say - and she does. As tedious as Harold's offering, Barbara's was enthralling. She brings events to life and is open about her feelings for all the main characters, without ever being bitchy.
Were I to voice one criticism, it is something which I have noticed about most political biographies, and that is the biographee, if I may create a new form of that word, always warned their fellow protagonists about anything that, with the glory of 20-20 hindsight, was a glaring error. What I would love to know, is whether the erroneous sears are simply fibbing to make their position more virtuous, or whether time has played tricks upon their memories. Barbara Castle, if she is an errant prophetess, leads me to the latter assumption because she is not afraid to tell stories that cast her in a questionable light, when necessary.
I loved this book and would recommend it, not just to political aficionados, but to anyone who likes a straight talking autobiography of a good woman.… (mehr)