Editing Barbara Castle (section)

==Education==
Castle attended Love Lane Elementary School, then [[Pontefract and District Girls High School]]. After moving to Bradford at the age of twelve, she attended [[Bradford Girls' Grammar School]]. She became involved in acting at the school and developed oratorical skills. She excelled academically, winning numerous awards from the school. She also organised mock elections at the school, in which she stood as the Labour candidate. There were some aspects of the school that she did not like, notably the presence of many girls from rich families. In her last year she was appointed [[head girl]].

Her education continued at [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]], from which she graduated with a [[third-class degree|third-class]] BA in [[Philosophy, politics and economics]] in 1932.<ref>''Oxford University Calendar 1932'', Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932, p.217</ref> She began serious political activity at Oxford, serving as the Treasurer of the [[Oxford University Labour Club]], the highest position a woman could hold in the club at the time. She struggled to accept the atmosphere of a university that had only recently begun to question its traditionally sexist attitudes. She was scornful of the elitist nature of some elements of the institution, branding the [[Oxford Union]] "that cadet class of the establishment".