Pam Cox
Pam Cox | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament forColchester | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Will Quince |
| Majority | 8,250 (18.4%) |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge(BA) and (Ph.D.) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Rescue and reform Girls, delinquency and industrial schools 1908-1933(1997) |
Pamela Margaret Coxis a BritishLabour Partypolitician who has served asMember of Parliament(MP) forColchestersince2024.
Biography
[edit]Pamela Cox was brought up inSouthend.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 atRobinson College, Cambridge,[2]and in 1997 was awarded a PhD for a thesis on the history of girls' delinquency in Britain.[3]Prior to her election as an MP, she was a professor of social history and criminology at theUniversity of Essex,and has been a fellow of theRoyal Society of Artssince 2017. She presented theBBCdocumentary series,Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the CounterandServants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs,and has contributed to historical and cultural programmes forChannel 4andChannel 5includingEdwardian Britain in Colour.[3]
Politics
[edit]In 1994, Cox joined theLabour Party.[4]She has been aNew Town and Christ Churchcouncillor since May 2021, and on 5 November 2022 she became theLabour Partyprospective parliamentary candidatein the2024 general electionforColchester.[5][6][7]Upon her election to parliament, she became the first female MP to represent the constituency.[8]
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
[edit]- ^"MY STORY".Archivedfrom the original on 26 March 2024.Retrieved12 March2024.
- ^"Cambridge University Tripos examination results",The Times,7 July 1992, p. 45.
- ^ab"Professor Pamela Cox".University of Essex.Archivedfrom the original on 12 March 2024.Retrieved12 March2024.
- ^Martin Suker (12 September 2023)."Pam Cox Visits Clacton".Clacton Labour.Archivedfrom the original on 26 March 2024.Retrieved12 March2024.
- ^Lewis Adams (5 November 2022)."Pam Cox is Labour's Parliamentary choice for Colchester".Gazette Standard.Archivedfrom the original on 26 March 2024.Retrieved12 March2024.
- ^Ben Fryer; Orla Moore (26 September 2023)."Olympic rower James Cracknell vows to earn Colchester seat".BBC News.Archivedfrom the original on 1 October 2023.Retrieved12 March2024.
- ^Lewis Adams (5 May 2023)."Colchester Labour's Pam Cox confident in Parliament bid".Gazette Standard.Archivedfrom the original on 26 March 2024.Retrieved12 March2024.
- ^Adams, Lewis; Knights, Richard (9 July 2024)."'My absolute honour being Colchester's first female MP'".BBC News.Retrieved9 July2024.
- ^"Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650–1950".Routledge.Archivedfrom the original on 26 March 2024.Retrieved12 March2024.
- ^"Gender, Justice and Welfare in Britain,1900-1950: Bad Girls in Britain, 1900-1950 (Hardback)".Waterstones.Archivedfrom the original on 26 March 2024.Retrieved12 March2024.
- ^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.ISBN978-0-19-878849-2.Archivedfrom the original on 26 March 2024.Retrieved12 March2024.
- ^Lucy Lethbridge (3 August 2014)."Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter review – 'rich in surprising insights'".The Guardian.Archivedfrom the original on 26 March 2024.Retrieved12 March2024.
- ^"Criminology: A Sociological Introduction".Research Gate.Archivedfrom the original on 26 March 2024.Retrieved12 March2024.
External links
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- Academics of the University of Essex
- Alumni of Robinson College, Cambridge
- Councillors in Essex
- Labour Party (UK) councillors
- Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Living people
- People from Southend-on-Sea
- UK MPs 2024–present
- Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- Women councillors in England