Castle, Barbara

has biography | a une biographie: British Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her one of the longest-serving female MPs in British history. Castle was a supporter of both the Movement for Colonial Freedom and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the United Kingdom, and was a leading figure in protesting the British government's conduct during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya (1952-1960). Castle visited Kenya in 1954 during the rebellion and made a famous speech in Parliament exposing governmental deception over the Hola Massacre in 1959.
was born | est né: 6 October 1910
died in | est mort par: 3 May 2002
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Hansard; National Portrait Gallery; Andrew Kersley, 'How Barbara Castle Fought to Expose the British Empire’s Shame in Kenya', Tribune, 2021; Priyamvada Gopal, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (London: Verso, 2019)

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Statue of Barbara Castle