History is not onlu on the curriculum and it is not only the subject of books, journals, radio and television programs, or public debates that explicitly deal with the past and w ith the question of how to remember it in an adequate way.* History is also conveyed en passant. It is inscribed in the fabric of everyday life, in people’s habits and routines, in things they live with and places they go to. Be it in the course of day-to-day conversations, be it in the context of events in the life of a community, historical experiences are passed on from one generation to the next. Rather than, first and foremost, thinking about the past, people here are doing history