Earliest political memory of the day #74
At the age of 6/7 witnessing the civil war in Somalia. Trying to escape from Mogadishu as the city was being bombed. Seeing a bullet go through my aunties breast […]
Category Archives: earliest political memories
Memories of political events from childhood, includes everyday life and conversations about social and political issues
Earliest political memory of the day #73
I’m from Brussels, I’m born there. But as I have Serbian origins my name doesn’t sound Belgian at all. So during my entire life everytime I said my name (at […]
Earliest political memory of the day #72
Athens 1980s. I grew up in the Exarcheia neighbourhood of Athens. There was always something going on. The police. The anarchists, Fires on the road, The Chemistry Faculty building on […]
Earliest political memory of the day #71
environmental activism when I was 13 to “Save Irakli beach” from development [Bulgaria].
Earliest political memory of the day #70
Hearing the name ‘John Major’ on TV and asking mu parents who he was. They told me “He’s the man who steals all mummy + daddy’s money”
Earliest political memory of the day #69
Being on a bus with my mum looking through the window at people protesting and police repressing when a big wooden stick hit the window next to me, from the […]
Earliest political memories in the classroom
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 […]
Earliest political memory of the day #84
There was a man named geyforks and he was a king and he was the last king to go in the house of lords and he was very good at […]
Earliest political memory of the day #68
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 […]
Earliest political memory of the day #67
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. […]