folk memory

British  

noun

1. the memory of past events as preserved in a community

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Example Sentences

In Soviet times, Victory Day commemorations were more low-key, with the emphasis on honouring veterans and their huge sacrifices, which are seared into older Russians' folk memory.

From Reuters • May 7, 2023

The idea that a folk memory could preserve history 4,000 years old may seem preposterous, but there were also folk tales that gods built the passage tombs to affect the solar cycle.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2020

In Britain and the US, most of us have not eaten this kind of bread in so many generations there is no longer even a folk memory of what it tasted like.

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2019

Gov. Phil Bryant last week went further, likening it to the 1927 flood that lives on in books, songs, movies and the folk memory of the Magnolia State.

From Washington Times • May 29, 2019

"There does remain this folk memory of people jumping on the bandwagon of accusations and it not really mattering whether those accusations were true or not," says Dr Nelson.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2017