Source A Barbara Castle, MP for Blackburn, August 1946
1 Why do you think that the proposals in In Place of Strife so infuriated trade union leaders?
Barbara Betts was born in 1910 into a Yorkshire family which, while middle-class and relatively comfortably off, was firmly committed to socialism. Her mother was a Labour councillor, while her father, a tax inspector by profession, was a part-time journalist and became editor of a leftwing magazine, the Pioneer, in the 1920s. Educated at Bradford Girls Grammar School, she earned a scholarship to St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
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