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Pam Cox
MP
Member of Parliament
for Colchester
Assumed office
4 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 Margaret Cox is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester since 2024.

Biography

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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]

Politics

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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]

Qualifications

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  • BA (Hons) History, University of Cambridge (1992)
  • PhD, (on the history of girls' delinquency in Britain), University of Cambridge, 1997[3]

Works

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  • 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]

References

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  1. ^ "MY STORY". Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Cambridge University Tripos examination results", The Times, 7 July 1992, p. 45.
  3. ^ a b c "Professor Pamela Cox". University of Essex. Archived from the original on 12 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  4. ^ Martin Suker (12 September 2023). "Pam Cox Visits Clacton". Clacton Labour. Archived from the original on 26 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. ^ Adams, Lewis; Knights, Richard (9 July 2024). "'My absolute honour being Colchester's first female MP'". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650–1950". Routledge. Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ "Criminology: A Sociological Introduction". Research Gate. Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
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