I think my earliest political memory is Sir Alec Douglas Hume becoming PM in October 1963 when I was 11. No – wait – it was actually six months earlier […]

The Iran hostage crisis – yellow ribbons around trees, the catastrophic rescue attempt, the sense that Carter was hurting for these men.

In kindergarten I vividly remember sitting in a circle and listening as each student had the chance to tell the class who they would vote for in the 1988 US […]

My kindergarten class in 1996 held a mock presidential election. Clinton won relatively easily, but one kid wanted to vote for Dole *and* Perot because Clinton needed to share/it was […]

My earliest political memory is of Margaret Thatcher stepping down as Prime Minister. It was all over the news when I got back from school and I remember thinking about […]

My neighbour gave us a Margaret Thatcher jack-in-the-box, and I bit her nose off. My parents thought it was hilarious.

In Hungary, the earliest political memory of my generation is the death of the first democratically elected prime minister after the fall of socialism, József Antal, in 1993 but for […]

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 […]