Education and Career
Hardstaff went to the University of Manchester where she obtained a degree in German, and then studied at the University of Cologne. She married in 1964 and had a son and daughter, but divorced in 1977, retaining her married name. Hardstaff worked as a teacher of German and French, first at High Storrs Girls' Grammar School in Sheffield, then at St Peter's Secondary Modern School.
In 1971 she was elected as a Labour Party candidate to Sheffield City Council in Walkley ward, becoming a full-time councillor; she served for seven years. In 1977 she went back to work at Knottingley High School, moving in 1979 to the Frecheville School in Sheffield, and from 1986 to the Birley School.
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