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| known as CB Cox in his roles as professor, editor and activist, and as Brian Cox in his post-academic and creative career; born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, to frugal, lower middle-class Methodist parents; attended Nunsthorpe elementary school and Wintringham secondary school; attended Pembroke College, Cambridge; | Schmidt, Michael, 2008 |
| Start | end | description |
|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 1966 | Cox teaching at Hull University |
| 1969 | 1977 | Black Papers on Education published |
| 1984 | 1986 | Cox is dean of the faculty of arts |
| 1987 | 1991 | Cox is pro vice-chancellor |
| 1988 April | The Kingman Report | |
| 1989 May | The Cox Report | |
| 1993 | Cox retires from Manchester | |
| 2008 April | Death of Brian Cox |
| Cox, Brian (1991). Cox on Cox: An English curriculum for the 1990s. Sevenoaks: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. |