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Article: Battling Barbara: a life of Barbara Castle.(Red Queen: The Authorized Biography of Barbara Castle)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- April 1, 2004
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Red Queen: The Authorized Biography of Barbara Castle. Anne Perkins. Macmillan. [pounds sterling]20.00. 499 pages. ISBN 0-333-90511-3.
Barbara Castle was a prominent Minister in the British Labour Governments of the 1960s and 1970s led by Harold Wilson. As Transport Minister, she was credited with introducing the 70 mph speed limit on motorways, car seat belts, and the breathalyser, and, when at the Department of Health and Social Security, with important legislation on pensions and equal pay for women. As a highly ambitious person, she wanted to be remembered for more, much more than safer roads and relative improvements in the standard of living. The first ...