Additionally, she played Labour politician Barbara Castle in the British film Made in Dagenham.

* 1910 – Barbara Castle, British politician ( d. 2002 )

Despite Edward Heath claiming it was a ' hard, cold budget, without any glimmer of warmth ' Jenkins ' first budget broadly received a warm reception, with Harold Wilson remarking that ' it was widely acclaimed as a speech of surpassing quality and elegance ' and Barbara Castle that it ' took everyone's breath away '.

** International Women's Year is launched in Britain by Princess Alexandra and Barbara Castle.

His parents were Leonhard von Herberstein and Barbara von Lueg, members of the prominent German-speaking family which had already resided in Herberstein Castle for nearly 200 years.

With public frustration over strikes mounting, Wilson's government in 1969 proposed a series of changes to the legal basis for industrial relations ( labour law ) in the UK, which were outlined in a White Paper " In Place of Strife " put forward by the Employment Secretary Barbara Castle.

The Minister of Overseas Development, Barbara Castle, set a standard in interest relief on loans to developing nations which resulted in changes to the loan policies of many donor countries, “ a significant shift in the conduct of rich white nations to poor brown ones .” Loans were introduced to developing countries on terms that were more favourable to them than those given by governments of all other developed countries at that time.

* Ted and Barbara Castle, politicians, lived in John Spencer Square

However, although backed by then transport minister Barbara Castle, the need to build a number of motorway bridges and re-routing of the A590 road from Haverthwaite via Greenodd to Plumpton Junction, meant that the complete vision was unsuccessful.

The following year he was promoted to Under Secretary in the same ministry, now led by Barbara Castle, and become closely involved in implementing the unpopular Prices and Incomes Act.

Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn ( née Betts ), PC, GCOT ( 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002 ) was a British Labour Party politician.

Until her record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody, Barbara Castle held the record as the female MP with the longest continuous service.

To save his government, Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson prevailed upon his Minister of Transport Barbara Castle to sanction the building of the bridge.

Transport minister, Barbara Castle also stipulated that some rail services that could not pay their way but had a valuable social role should be subsidised.

Tom Fraser was appointed Transport Minister, soon to be replaced by Barbara Castle in December 1965 who decided that at least 11, 000 route miles ( 17, 700 km ) would be needed for the foreseeable future and that the railway system should be stabilised at around this size.

Boaters protest about the proposed sale of the Jericho, Oxford | Jericho Boatyard on the Oxford Canal in 2005 near St Barnabas Church, Oxford | St Barnabas Church. During the 1960s pleasure boating began to grow in popularity and replace the old trading boats, After a fact-finding cruise on the canal, Barbara Castle ( Minister for Transport ) rejected a proposal for closure.

* 3 Barbara Castle, 91, British Labour politician and female life peer.

* Barbara Castle, Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst ( Penguin Books, 1987 ) ISBN 0-14-008761-3

Straw served as political adviser to Barbara Castle at the Department of Social Security from 1974 to 1976, and as adviser to Peter Shore at the Department for the Environment from 1976 to 1977.

Straw was selected to stand for Parliament in Blackburn, Lancashire, in 1977, after Barbara Castle ( the incumbent ) decided not to seek re-election.

In the summer of 1816 Soane's and his late wife's mutual friend Barbara Hofland, persuaded him to take a holiday in Harrogate, there they visited Knaresborough, Plompton and its rocks, Ripon, Newby Hall, Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Park, Castle Howard, Harewood House and Masham.

Previous MPs for Blackburn include former Labour cabinet minister Barbara Castle, who represented the town in Westminster from 1945 to 1979.

Barbara Castle Way ( named after the former Blackburn MP ) runs from Montague St to Eanam Roundabout, passing close to the town centre, the road is also called " The Orbital Route " even though it does not go around the town.