I remember my parents talking about politics over dinner as a child, but the first political event I really engaged in was the fall of the Berlin Wall (I was 13). Our German teacher and we talked about it lots in lessons. She was so happy because her grandmother came from Berlin and was going to be able to see some of her relatives for the first time in 40 years.
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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 can read all the contributions here. The series caught the attention of our colleague Rachel O'Connell in the School of English who…
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Staying up really, really late with my mum and my (German) Nan, watching the fall of the Berlin Wall. They were both crying. I didn't understand it all, but I knew it was really important, to us.
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My first political memory was when I was about 8 years old. I came home and found my mum in the kitchen crying while listening to the radio. I asked her why she was crying - and she told me Princess Diana had died accidentally. I didn't understand why she…
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