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Pam Cox
MP
Member of Parliament
for Colchester
Assumed office
5 July 2024
Preceded byWill Quince
Majority8,250 (18.4%)
Personal details
Political partyLabour
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA) and (Ph.D.)
Academic background
ThesisRescue and reform Girls, delinquency and industrial schools 1908-1933 (1997)

Pamela Cox is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester since 2024.

Biography[edit]

Pamela Cox was brought up in Southend, born with two sisters. 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. Both her sisters became nurses in south Essex.[1] In 1994, she joined the Labour Party.[2] Following her election at the 2024 general election, Cox became the first female member of parliament for the Colchester constituency.[3]

She is also an English professor of social history and criminology at the University of Essex and 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. She contributed to historical and cultural programs for Channel 4 and Channel 5 including Edwardian Britain in Colour.[4]

She has been a New Town and Christ Church councillor since May 2021 and on 5 November 2022, she competed in a bid against Lee Scordis and Chris Vince and became the Labour Party prospective parliamentary candidate in the 2024 general election for Colchester.[5][6][7]

Qualifications[edit]

  • BA (Hons) History University of Cambridge (1992)
  • PhD, (on the history of girls' delinquency in Britain), University of Cambridge, 1997[4]

Works[edit]

  • Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 (2002) (co-authored with Heather Shore)[8]
  • Gender, Justice and Welfare: Bad Girls in Britain, 1900-1950 (2003)[9]
  • Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850 (2017) (co-authored with Barry Godfrey, Heather Shore and Zoe Alker)[10]
  • Shopgirls: the True Story of Life Behind the Counter (2014) (co-authored with Annabel Hobley)[11]
  • Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (2014) (co-authored by Eamonn Carrabine, Pete Fussey, Dick Hobbs, Nigel South, Darren Thiel, Jackie Turton)[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "MY STORY". Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  2. ^ Martin Suker (12 September 2023). "Pam Cox Visits Clacton". Clacton Labour. Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  3. ^ Adams, Lewis; Knights, Richard (9 July 2024). "'My absolute honour being Colchester's first female MP'". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Professor Pamela Cox". University of Essex. Archived from the original on 12 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650–1950". Routledge. Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "Criminology: A Sociological Introduction". Research Gate. Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.

External links[edit]

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