Earliest political memory of the day #18
Only after reflecting on your request did I realise that my earliest ‘political’ memories are all related to gender. May I share two ‘proto-political’ memories and one which I would […]
Only after reflecting on your request did I realise that my earliest ‘political’ memories are all related to gender. May I share two ‘proto-political’ memories and one which I would […]
Mine is walking with my parents near our apt. in NYC and joining a crowd on 8th street and 6th avenue to listen to Bella Abzug give a campaign speech […]
The winter of discontent, there was rubbish on the street corners and no electricity. Our house has to back wall (building work halted by the snow). Mum talked about people […]
A TV commercial, some kind of PSA: “I’m Jimmy Carter. I’m your new president.”
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 […]
My mother watching Nixon with the sound turned off…on a black and white TV… she said something to the effect of ‘that man is a liar’.
Watergate, as reported (it seemed, incessantly) in the UK media. I was 8 years old when the phenomenon began. I have a particularly vivid memory of a (British) political cartoon […]
Along with loving polling days because it meant a day off school, my first real memory of a political story was the disappearance of John Stonehouse in 1974. I was […]
Η πρώτη μου πολιτική μνήμη είναι η εξής: όταν ήμουν στην πρώτη δημοτικού η αδερφή μου πήγε στο κατηχητικό και της άρεσε πολύ (τους μοίραζαν σοκολάτες και καραμέλες και έλεγαν […]
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 […]