Mo Mowlam

Life and work

She was born in Watford, England, the daughter of an alcoholic father, but grew up in Coventry, where her father rose to become Coventry's assistant postmaster, and she would later be awarded the Freedom of the City in 1999. She was the only one of the family's three children to pass the 11-plus exam, and started at Chiswick Girls' grammar school in West London, before attending Coundon Court comprehensive school in Coventry. She then studied at Trevelyan College, Durham, reading sociology and anthropology, joining the Labour Party in her first year. She worked for then Labour MP Tony Benn in London and American writer Alvin Toffler in New York, before deciding to do a PhD in political science at the University of Iowa.

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Watford - England - Alcoholic - Coventry - Freedom of the City - 1999 - 11-plus - Comprehensive school - Trevelyan College - Durham - Sociology - Anthropology - Tony Benn - Alvin Toffler - Political science - University of Iowa

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She taught briefly at the University of Wisconsin in 1977 and at Florida State University before returning to England in 1979 to teach at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In her time at Florida State she was stalked by a man she later concluded was Ted Bundy, who murdered two women students on the campus near where she lived. In 1981 she organised a series of alternative lectures - in parallel to the Reith lectures - which were published as Debate On Disarmament, jointly edited by Mowlam, with all proceeds from the book going to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

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University of Wisconsin - 1977 - Florida State University - 1979 - University of Newcastle upon Tyne - Ted Bundy - Reith lecture - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

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She called herself a 'devout atheist'.

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