First Political Memory is an online memory bank - www.firstpoliticalmemory.org - which aims to reconnect people's everyday lives with politics through collecting and sharing stories of when people first became aware of the bigger world around them.

Everyone has political memories, but they are usually not part of our everyday vocabulary. While politics affects us in all aspects of our lives, the latest research continues to confirm that many people feel disconnected from the political process and wider civic society. We hope that the First Political Memory project will act as a tool to increase people's interest in politics, and open up new spaces to discover history, memory, and the ability to make a difference.

The First Political Memory website houses a collection of fascinating stories, hilarious anecdotes, and moving recollections from ordinary people as well as people in the public eye; from those that live in the United Kingdom to further afield. Many people are taken right back to their childhoods, while others remember their first political awakenings. Sometimes news events have affected people personally - and sometimes people become the new stories. This bank of memories bears testimony to how each of our lives is intertwined into a bigger story - that of politics, history and world events.