I was raised by rather unpolitical parents; politics hardly were a topic at the dinner table. My earliest political memory is the fall of the German wall when I was 11. I was born in Western Germany without any relatives in the East, and Eastern Germany was just some unknown foreign country to me. The event only gained significance for me because my grandparents, to whom I was very close, were very emotional about it. Today, I am deeply moved by footage of these days that changed the history of my country.
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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 conscious political memory was the Greek election of October 1993, when I was 10. I have recollections of politics before then in the news and the newspapers (Gorbachev, George HW Bush, the Romanian flags with the hole in the middle), but these elections were my first full-on experience…
In "earliest political memories"
I understand 'political awareness' in a very broad sense early on.....my father was a very abusive man and there was a lot of domestic violence in my home when I was young. It still fascinates me now how 'live' this is as a subject (rightly) within Social Work - when…
In "earliest political memories"
I was raised by rather unpolitical parents; politics hardly were a topic at the dinner table. My earliest political memory is the fall of the German wall when I was 11. I was born in Western Germany without any relatives in the East, and Eastern Germany was just some unknown foreign country to me. The event only gained significance for me because my grandparents, to whom I was very close, were very emotional about it. Today, I am deeply moved by footage of these days that changed the history of my country.