Pam Cox

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Pamela Cox
Occupation(s)Councillor, professor of social history and criminology at the University of Essex
Political partyLabour
Websitepamcox.co.uk

Pamela Cox is 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.[1]

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 next general election for Colchester.[2][3][4]

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.[5] In 1994, she joined the Labour Party.[6]

Qualifications[edit]

  • BA (Hons) History University of Cambridge (1992)
  • PhD, (on the history of girls' delinquency in Britain), University of Cambridge, 1997[1]

Works[edit]

  • Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 (2002) (co-authored with Heather Shore)[7]
  • Gender, Justice and Welfare: Bad Girls in Britain, 1900-1950 (2003)[8]
  • Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850 (2017) (co-authored with Barry Godfrey, Heather Shore and Zoe Alker)[9]
  • Shopgirls: the True Story of Life Behind the Counter (2014) (co-authored with Annabel Hobley)[10]
  • Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (2014) (co-authored by Eamonn Carrabine, Pete Fussey, Dick Hobbs, Nigel South, Darren Thiel, Jackie Turton)[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Professor Pamela Cox". University of Essex. Archived from the original on 12 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "MY STORY". Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  6. ^ Martin Suker (12 September 2023). "Pam Cox Visits Clacton". Clacton Labour. Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  7. ^ "Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650–1950". Routledge. Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "Criminology: A Sociological Introduction". Research Gate. Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.

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