Pamela Cox
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| Occupation(s) | Councillor, professor of social history and criminology at the University of Essex |
| Political party | Labour |
| Website | pamcox.co.uk |
Pamela Cox is Labour MP for Colchester, elected at the 2024 general election.
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.[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 2024 general election for Colchester.[2][3][4]
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]
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