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English politician and social history professor
Pamela Margaret Cox is a British
Labour Party politician who has served as
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Colchester since
2024 .
Pamela Cox was brought up in
Southend . Her mother was a midwife before becoming a nurse. Her father left school at the age of 15 and was apprenticed as a joiner before joining the church and becoming a minister. She has two sisters, both of whom became nurses in south Essex.
[1]
Cox studied history at
Robinson College, Cambridge ,
[2] and in 1997 was awarded a PhD for a thesis on the history of girls' delinquency in Britain.
[3] She is currently a professor of social history and criminology at the
University of Essex , and has been a fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts since 2017. She presented the
BBC documentary series,
Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter and
Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs , and has contributed to historical and cultural programmes for
Channel 4 and
Channel 5 including
Edwardian Britain in Colour .
[3]
In 1994, Cox joined the
Labour Party .
[4] She has been a
New Town and Christ Church councillor since May 2021, and on 5 November 2022 she became the
Labour Party
prospective parliamentary candidate in the
2024 general election for
Colchester .
[5]
[6]
[7] Upon her election to parliament, she became the first female MP to represent the constituency.
[8]
BA (Hons) History,
University of Cambridge (1992)
PhD, (on the history of girls' delinquency in Britain), University of Cambridge, 1997
[3]
Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 (2002) (co-authored with Heather Shore)
[9]
Gender, Justice and Welfare: Bad Girls in Britain, 1900-1950 (2003)
[10]
Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850 (2017) (co-authored with Barry Godfrey, Heather Shore and Zoe Alker)
[11]
Shopgirls: the True Story of Life Behind the Counter (2014) (co-authored with Annabel Hobley)
[12]
Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (2014) (co-authored by Eamonn Carrabine, Pete Fussey, Dick Hobbs, Nigel South, Darren Thiel, Jackie Turton)
[13]
^
"MY STORY" .
Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024 .
^ "Cambridge University Tripos examination results", The Times , 7 July 1992, p. 45.
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"Professor Pamela Cox" . University of Essex.
Archived from the original on 12 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024 .
^ Martin Suker (12 September 2023).
"Pam Cox Visits Clacton" . Clacton Labour .
Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024 .
^ Lewis Adams (5 November 2022).
"Pam Cox is Labour's Parliamentary choice for Colchester" . Gazette Standard .
Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024 .
^ Ben Fryer; Orla Moore (26 September 2023).
"Olympic rower James Cracknell vows to earn Colchester seat" .
BBC News .
Archived from the original on 1 October 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2024 .
^ Lewis Adams (5 May 2023).
"Colchester Labour's Pam Cox confident in Parliament bid" . Gazette Standard .
Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024 .
^ Adams, Lewis; Knights, Richard (9 July 2024).
" 'My absolute honour being Colchester's first female MP' " . BBC News . Retrieved 9 July 2024 .
^
"Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650–1950" . Routledge.
Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024 .
^
"Gender, Justice and Welfare in Britain,1900-1950: Bad Girls in Britain, 1900-1950 (Hardback)" . Waterstones.
Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024 .
^ Godfrey, Barry; Cox, Pamela; Shore, Heather; Alker, Zoe (2017).
"Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850" . Oxford Academic.
doi :
10.1093/oso/9780198788492.001.0001 .
ISBN
978-0-19-878849-2 .
Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024 .
^ Lucy Lethbridge (3 August 2014).
"Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter review – 'rich in surprising insights' " . The Guardian .
Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024 .
^
"Criminology: A Sociological Introduction" . Research Gate.
Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024 .
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