Pam Cox

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

Biography
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. In 1994, she joined the Labour Party. Following her election at the 2024 general election, Cox became the first female member of parliament for the Colchester constituency.

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.

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.

Qualifications

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

Works

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