Earliest political memory of the day #36
I was 11. It was a blissfully sunny English summer day and I was laying on the lawn. My Mam and Aunty were teasing me about my ‘boyfriend’. My Aunty […]
I was 11. It was a blissfully sunny English summer day and I was laying on the lawn. My Mam and Aunty were teasing me about my ‘boyfriend’. My Aunty […]
While I could say seeing on TV the shooting of JFK in 1963 (when I was 9years old) was the first time I became aware of politics, the first time […]
My earliest political memories are of the Heath government, though I cannot be precise about the elements, except I clearly remember the three day week, the power cuts, and joining […]
I can date this to some time in 1947, when I was five. I was at a local Labour Party meeting in South Devon with my mother, and pretty bored. […]
Από διηγήσεις των γονιών μου, οι οποίοι και οι δυο ως φοιτητές άνηκαν σε αριστερά φοιτητικά κόμματα (ΕΚΚΕ, Ρήγας Φεραίος) να έχω πάει μαζί τους σε ηλικία των 2 ετών […]
I recall seeing John Major speaking to cameras outside Parliament; the main impression on me was of the flash of the cameras.
Συμμετοχή με γονείς μου σε συγκέντρωση Ανδρέα Παπανδρέου στο Ηράκλειο. Η διαδρομή ως το Ηράκλειο με τις ουρές από τα αμάξια και τις σημαίες και μετά η συγκέντρωση, οι ενθουσιώδεις […]
It was the year of the coup in the Maldives, which took place in 1988, I was five. I remember being woken up by my brother in the middle of […]
You made me think … “Today I am becoming a pioneer and I give my promise that I will be … and do …” I cannot remember what exactly I […]
Here is what I remember from when I was maybe 7 or 8 years old and living in a small village near Annecy in France: my dad shouting at the […]