Sarah Elizabeth Cox is PR Manager for the British Science Association by day, and a boxing and wrestling historian by night. As an independent researcher, she pieces together the biographies of long-forgotten late-Victorian and Edwardian boxers and wrestlers, with a focus on African-American and Caribbean pugilists in 1880s London. Her first book, currently titled THE DEVIL'S DANCE FLOOR: Hezekiah Moscow and the Fight for Life in Late-Victorian London, will be published by Duckworth in 2027.
Sarah worked as a historical consultant on season one and two of Steven Knight's Disney+ 1880s boxing and crime TV drama A Thousand Blows, a show part-inspired by her research into the boxers Alec Munroe and Hezekiah Moscow.
She has written features for magazines including BBC History, Who Do You Think You Are, The Voice Newspaper and the Lewisham Ledger. In 2020 she contributed a chapter to fundraising anthology Women Love Wrestling, and she is a co-author on forthcoming essay collection Amazons of the Arena. Sarah is an event production assistant for the annual HistFest at the British Library. She has appeared on podcasts and pub comedy night stages and has written articles exploring subjects as diverse as the history of parakeets in Britain; baby loss care reform; and the assassination of the Prime Minister in 1812. She was previously a press officer for Barts Pathology Museum and Queen Mary University of London, Goldsmiths, Brunel and Trinity Laban; a waitress and bartender; and played the corpse at an award-winning murder mystery night.
Sarah holds an MA in History from Goldsmiths, University of London, a BA Politics and an MA in International Relations and Asia Pacific Studies from the University of East Anglia alongside professional diplomas in Public Relations and Crisis Communications. She is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.