Grandmothers through the Eyes of their Grandchildren

In recent years, the topic of the relationship to our closest ancestors has been increasingly raised in the public space, with grandmothers occupying one of the central positions. From the collection of the Database of Everyday History, 27 of the most interesting stories about grandmothers from before, during and at the beginning of this century. The memoirs capture grandmothers as they appear in the eyes of their grandchildren - also now grandmothers and grandfathers. The purpose of the edition is to document the conditions of everyday life. It is a goal that is extremely topical, because who among the middle or younger generation today can still imagine what life was like before the introduction of electricity, how what it was like to work on a farm at the beginning of the 20th century, or what it was like to go to school during the Habsburg Monarchy? Older people's memories of their childhood are an irreplaceable source for studying the history of "everyday" life. By publishing these memories, they are preserved for future generations and at the same time can be a valuable source of information that is no longer held in the family memory of contemporary families. Thus, not only in Czech culture, the grandmother has become a kind of proxy figure through whom we can analyse not only the relationships between individual family members, but also the traditions, customs and processes of the time. What role will grandmothers play in the rapidly changing society, the future will tell.