From when Apartheid was ending in South Africa and so the western consumer boycott of South African produce was being lifted, I remember being in a grocer’s shop with my mum, and her commenting about some fruit “oh yes, we can buy these now”.

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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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Earliest political memory of the day #80

my earliest memory is sat in front of the TV with my mum and brother watching the coalition government being announced. I ask my mum what it meant as I did not understand.

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Earliest political memory of the day #88

Obamas being elected president 8 years ago

In "earliest political memories"