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 it a lot as I did my paper round in the evening and having the feeling it was important that I remembered that day.
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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…
In "earliest political memories"
My earliest political memory is hearing that JFK had been shot on our old radio and running to tell my mom. I was 5 at the time.
In "earliest political memories"
My earliest pololitical memory is when I learnt and did a polotical poster of NELSON MANDELLA! it was so GOOD!
In "earliest political memories"