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	Barbara Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn (October 6, 1910 – May 3, 2002), British left-wing politician, was born Barbara Anne Betts in Bradford, Yorkshire, and adopted her family's politics, joining the Labour Party.
		As Minister of Transport, she introduced the breathalyser to combat drink-driving, and as Secretary of State for Employment, she was never far from controversy which reached a fever pitch when the trade unions rebelled against her proposals to reduce their powers in her 1969 white paper, 'In Place of Strife'.
		The Castle Diaries were published after the 1979 General Election, and chronicled her time in office from 1964-1976.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Castle (542 words)

	Barbara Castle
		Castle was a member of the European Parliament (1979-89) where she served as vice-chairperson of the Socialist Group (1979-86) and in 1990 joined the House of Lords.
		Barbara Castle, the fiery former Labour Cabinet minister and the best-known woman parliamentarian of her day, died yesterday aged 91.
		Barbara Castle was the person most people expected to be Britain's first woman prime minister: the most colourful, the most successful and the most controversial woman in British politics.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRcastleB.htm (2910 words)

	Commanding Heights : Barbara Castle \| on PBS
		Dame Barbara Castle, former Labor Cabinet minister and a major force in the British Parliament, was a committed Socialist who campaigned fiercely for labor, women's rights, and transportation safety since the beginning of her political career in the 1930s.
		BARBARA CASTLE: The Labor Party swept to power simply because the vast majority of people, particularly those men and women in the fighting forces who'd lived through the dreadful depression years of the '30s, just said, Churchill's done a fine job of a war leader but we don't trust him to win the peace.
		BARBARA CASTLE: The idea was that you couldn't have real democracy if the economic power, the power of hiring and firing, the power of deciding what's produced and what isn't produced or the ownership of the land, is in the hands of a few rich people.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_barbaracastle.html (4759 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Lady Castle of Blackburn
		Barbara Castle's public profile grew, and she became "the woman Conservatives love to hate", savaged by cartoonists and satirists as well as being resented by male chauvinists - not least the many on Labour's own benches.
		Castle was forced to retreat with a worthless formula of "solemn and binding undertakings" from the TUC about their future conduct.
		Barbara Castle in full spate on the follies of the Common Agricultural Policy was a truly awesome spectacle, her head tilted forward like an eagle about to swoop on a prey.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/04/db0401.xml (3093 words)

	"The Barbara Castle Cabinet Diaries"\| Learning Support Services \| University of Bradford
		Barbara Anne Betts was born in Chesterfield in 1910, the family later moving to Hull, Pontefract and eventually to Bradford.
		Barbara Castle was a Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1989.
		Barbara Castle began to keep political diaries soon after she became a Cabinet minister : "I decided on 26 January that I ought to start keeping a regular record of what was happening" and continued throughout her periods in office.
	www.brad.ac.uk /library/special/castle.php (892 words)

	history 101 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Castle Rock once dominated the city's coastline, but today it is only a fast-fading memory.
		As was the case with other Chumash villages in the Santa Barbara area, the natives eventually abandoned it as they moved into settlements established by the Franciscan missionaries.
		The city's population was growing, as was its tourist industry; to have Castle Rock hinder access to one of the area's most picturesque stretches of beach was increasingly vexing.
	www.independent.com /living/history931.htm (651 words)

	Chartist - Labour's star
		Barbara's approach was always more confrontational than the European way of compromise resulting in skirmishes sometimes lost on tactics rather than substance.
		Always moving on to the next battle, Barbara would be at her desk in Strasbourg, Brussels or England by 8 am, puffing ciggies (never in public) and furiously bashing away at articles, policy amendments, voting lists or the latest reform paper.
		For all her opposition to the faults of the European Community, Barbara was courageous enough to realise when it was time to accept Labour's negative optionof withdrawal from the EC was no longer sensible.
	www.chartist.org.uk /articles/europe/jul02pollack.html (940 words)

	New Statesman - Socialism's first lady (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Castle's achievements as a minister were impressive, including the establishment of what is now the Department for International Development, the breathalyser, other important transport reforms, equal pay for women, Serps pensions, and much else.
		Barbara had a commendably strong sense of injustice, but she was also a partisan with an abiding contempt for those on the right of the party (and sometimes for anyone - left or right - who disagreed with her).
		Barbara fell, and never properly recovered, as a result of the humiliating failure of her greatest project - reforming the trade unions.
	www.newstatesman.com /200307280029 (1332 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Baroness Castle of Blackburn
		Barbara Castle, who has died aged 91, was Labour's Red Queen, the woman Michael Foot called "the best socialist minister we've ever had".
		With no ministerial experience, and a department to be chiselled from the stoney faces of the foreign, colonial and commonwealth offices, Barbara sent her private office staff round to the Fabian Society to collect every available copy of a pamphlet she had written on international development, and instructed them to treat it as a blueprint.
		Barbara and Ted, who died in 1979, had no children, but were devoted to their nieces and great nieces and nephews.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /politicsobituaries/story/0,1441,709885,00.html (2703 words)

	Castle of Blackburn, Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		May 3, 2002, Ibstone, Buckinghamshire, Eng.), was a staunch socialist and longtime Labour MP (1945–79) who fought for and won a series of social reforms, but her attempt to legislate sweeping changes to the powerful trade unions ended in ignominious defeat in 1969 and helped to split the Labour Party.
		The forecastle and aftercastle (or sterncastle) are at the bow and stern of the vessel.
		In medieval Europe, the castle was the most common type of stronghold and often the residence of the king or territorial lord.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9390223 (883 words)

	Best of Old Labour\|11May02\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barbara Castle, by contrast, died a hero among the rank and file of the labour movement.
		Like many on the Labour left at the time, Barbara Betts (as she then was) was attracted towards the Soviet Union under Stalin as an alternative to the chaos and poverty created by market capitalism in the West.
		Castle was one of Wilson's key cabinet allies in a government that faced a series of severe financial crises culminating in the devaluation of the pound in November 1967.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php4?article_id=5654 (850 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Barbara Castle: Scaling the ramparts
		Barbara Castle had just arrived back at her secluded Thames Valley house from the Labour Party conference at Brighton, where her rallying cry for pensioners had won a standing ovation.
		Lady Castle might have been forgiven for thinking more about smoked salmon and canapés as she prepared for the week of her 90th birthday and the party in a marquee in her garden.
		Barbara Castle says she has been politically conscious since she was 14, just two years before she won a scholarship to St Hugh's College, Oxford.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_946000/946997.stm (707 words)

	ipedia.com: Barbara Castle Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British left-wing politician, was born Barbara Anne Betts in Bradford, Yorkshire, and adopted her family's politics, joining the Labour Party.
		Following her marriage to Ted Castle in 1944, Barbara became a journalist on the traditionally Labour-supporting daily newspaper, the Daily Mirror.
		Re-elected an MP after Harold Wilson's defeat of Edward Heath, Castle became Secretary of State for Social Services in 1974, but lost her place as a minister after clashing with the new prime minister, James Callaghan, who took over from Wilson in 1976.
	www.ipedia.com /barbara_castle.html (380 words)

	Barbara Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Re-elected an MP after Harold Wilson 's defeat of Edward Heath Castle became Secretary of State for Services in 1974 but lost her place as a after clashing with the new prime minister James Callaghan who took over from Wilson in 1976.
		In 1990 she was created a baroness in own right (having previously enjoyed the courtesy of "Lady" as a result of her life peerage but having refused to use She remained active in politics right up her death attacking Chancellor Gordon Brown 's refusal to link pensions to earnings the Labour party conference in 2001.
		The Castle Made for Love (excerpt from inside cover)Yolande's desperation knew no bounds.Up until now her life was as perfect as any princess in a storybook.
	www.freeglossary.com /Barbara_Castle (368 words)

	[Deathwatch] Lady Barbara Castle, British politician, 91 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lady Barbara Castle Dies at Age 91 Fri May 3, 5:48 PM ET By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) - Barbara Castle, a fiery former Cabinet minister and legislator widely regarded as a pioneer for women in British politics, died at her home Friday.
		Castle — who was made Baroness Castle of Blackburn in 1990 — died in her sleep, her relatives said in a statement.
		However, Castle feuded with party officials over how to handle labor unions and her party was voted out of office.
	slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00732.html (352 words)

	Guardian \| Baroness Castle
		It was Barbara Castle's particular vision that set the pattern which has retained 2,000 miles of these waterways and their special ambience.
		She was midwife of the national parks, and realised that towpaths are the way to a rich, unspoilt environment as well as being first-class for long-distance walking.
		Dorothy Robinson writes: Barbara Castle supported and encouraged both the anti-apartheid movement (AAM) and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa at a particularly difficult period.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4411499-103684,00.html (439 words)

	Guardian \| Labour's red queen
		When Barbara Castle was born in 1910 women did not have votes.
		If Barbara Castle was famous throughout her long life for her spirit and her pugnacity, that was part of the reason.
		Even at 90, frail and nearly blind, she was battling with all her old ferocity for the causes in which she believed, such as that of the pensioners.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4407219-103682,00.html (299 words)

	Paul Foot: Red Barbara's Rocky Road (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barbara was almost blind and had to be helped to the microphone.
		With this one proposal, Barbara Castle cast away much of the respect she had earned among the organised workers and the Labour left.
		She believed that security in old age was a matter for the state, not for the stock exchange, and she established an earnings-related state pension scheme (Serps), so much fairer and more secure than anything that had gone before it that the Tories (and the new Tories in the Blair government) systematically demolished it.
	www.marxists.org /archive/foot-paul/2002/06/castle.htm (904 words)

	Santa Bárbara Castle - Culture / Alicante Town Hall
		The Castle or Citadel, probably built after the city was resettled, might have been a response to the instability produced by persistent Viking incursions (at one point they razed the city of Oriola) or, perhaps a defensive measure when faced with the threat posed by military and ideological growth of the Fatimis from Egypt.
		In the middle of the 12th Century another geographer, Al-Idrisi, wrote: "...the castle which defends the city, built upon a mountain difficult to climb is very strong, in spite of it being of little importance...".
		On a lower level than the Medieval Castle itself, with the Citadel and Albacar (the so-called d’en mig), and due to to the topography of Mount Benacantil, a new area (separated from the former by a moat) was opened in the Middle Ages: the Albacar vell (old fortress).
	www.alicante-ayto.es /ingles/culture/museos-santabarbara2.html (1721 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Labour stalwart Castle dies
		Former Labour Cabinet minister Barbara Castle, one of the most high profile politicians of her generation, has died at the age of 91.
		"Barbara Castle was one of the dominating figures of the Labour movement of the last 50 years," he said.
		She said although her death was not unexpected, Barbara Castle remained politically active to the last.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1967000/1967159.stm (610 words)

	Biography of Barbara Castle
		Barbara Anne Castle was born on 6 October 1910.
		She became Baroness Castle of Blackburn, after a notable career as an MP and after that Euro MP.
		Barbara Castle became Labour MP for Blackburn in 1945.
	www.biogs.com /famous/castlebarbara.html (170 words)

	The Observer \| Comment \| Barbara the brave - a women to reckon with
		Barbara Castle saved my political career by insisting I remained her junior Minister when Harold Wilson wanted to sack me for imagined acts of disloyalty.
		Barbara was incapable of stifling disagreement or dissatisfaction.
		When the Castles sailed on Charles Clore's yacht I had to think of a code name to use in despatches about her movements.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,6903,710155,00.html (1275 words)

	Castle of Barbara Steele (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Castle Of Blood delivers terror with all the skill of an Italian marksman, which is to say, sporadically, rarely hitting the target.
		Maybe the Castle of Blood would be a compendium of hideous Poe-inspired torments...pits and pendulums and people sealed in walls and telltale hearts pumping under the floorboards.
		Blackwood claims to possess a castle from which no one emerges alive, a castle in which, one night a year, the dead must replay over and over the acts that led to their deaths.
	www.horror-wood.com /cob.htm (1533 words)

	News and speeches:: The Labour Party: securing Britain's future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tony Blair said: “Beyond doubt, Barbara Castle was one of the dominating political figures of the 20th century.
		Former Labour leader Michael Foot told how he had tried to teach Barbara Castle to drive – “That was the last I saw of my Austin Seven,'' he said, as she crashed driving back from a meeting.
		Barbara Castle made her name when as transport minister in the 1960s, and against the protests of motoring organisations, she oversaw the introduction of the breathalyser and seatbelts – recognised now as major factors in the reduction in road deaths.
	www.labour.org.uk /news/ministersrememberbarbaracastle (498 words)

	Walden Two Live
		Barbara's skepticism creates a struggle for him, because he is attracted to both Barbara and to the ideas of Walden Two.
		Castle: anxious to press what appears to be a case of personal sacrifice for the sake of the community But they ceased to be architects in the strict sense of the word.
		Castle is engaged in a bitter struggle with himself.
	www.twinoaks.org /clubs/walden-two/waldentwo-live.html (20164 words)

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