My mum and dad had a set of badges that I used to like playing with. My favourites were the CND ones but there were also “Save Greater London Council” (didn’t have a clue what this was at the time as we lived in Sheffield), and a caricature of Charles and Diana’s faces saying “fuck the wedding” (probably inappropriate for me, aged 7). Also some miners strike (political) and campaign for real ale (less political?).
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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"
Mine is: "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher!" I remember going to nursery school when I was older and being surprised there was still milk. Round about that time was also the news about Idi Amin in Uganda and I remember being absolutely terrified of him: he was like the bogeyman. I…
In "earliest political memories"
Loads of kids in my school had Dads who were away because of the Gulf War. I was happy my dad wasn't away but also I remember being aware that those dads were somewhere exciting or exotic.
In "earliest political memories"