Last autumn we ran an experimental online public engagement series called ‘earliest political memories’. We collected a total of 68 memories that were generously contributed by members of the public. You […]
My first political memory is Friday November 22 1963 the day John F Kennedy was assassinated. I remember lying content on the floor next to a crackling fire in the […]
I think a belief in social justice (in my non-religious home) was always the moral backdrop of my upbringing. So my first political memories are of disruption to that taken-for-grantedness. […]
Watching Michael Foot on a open top double decker bus. I must have been about 8 years old. Foot was approaching a town called Failsworth just outside Oldham. As he […]
Η πρώτη πολιτική μου μνήμη είναι η εκλογή μου ως πρόεδρος του πενταμελούς συμβουλίου της τάξης μου στη β γυμνασίου! My first political recollection was being elected class president in my […]
Watching children of about my age (9 at the time) pick through a huge rubbish pile for scraps of food, whilst adults used the other side of the same rubbish […]
I was at primary school in the late 1960s. I vividly remember standing in a crocodile line of classmates, being shepherded by two teachers – one at the front, one […]
I was about 12 and went with my parents and brother on an outing at a suburb close to Athens (Kifisia or Penteli). My parent took a walk to the […]
The order of the three trailer-like short memories from when I was three years old was established in my adult life, i.e after I knew the historical significance and the […]
I grew up in West Virginia (USA), a rural and culturally homogenous region. My memory is of my mom putting me on the phone to talk to the utility bill […]