living memory

living memory (plural n)

1. Man's collective memory of the past.

   Synonym: human memory

   • 2015, Sofi Oksanen, Russia in the history of Finnish literature:

     These writers were recording the living memory of those times.

   • 2016, Kimberly Jo La Palm at University of California (LA), Uncovering Performance in Medieval Scandinavia:

     The document refers to the practice as “ett urgammalt bruk” (an ancient custom). Clearly this was a custom that was older than the living memory of anyone living in Okome at that time, making it at least as old as the early eighteenth century (although likely older).

• in living memory