And there are a lot of people for whom that idea of exceptionalism is a part of how they see themselves. Written by TSH110 To view profiles and participate in discussions please or . The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. I feel if we would only fund it better instead of always wanting a few pennies in tax cuts it could have a golden era again if we held dear to its original principles rather than allowing them to be muddied by those envisioning a carve up. Very moving and somehow making me feel not so alone with my thyroid condition. TV historian David Olusoga has told of the racism he faced as a child - and how Gazza came to his rescue in primary school. To pass judgment on anyone living or dead on the basis of a handful of letters and ledger entries is palpably unfair and arguably ridiculous, and yet, in this case, almost impossible to resist. It has now got to the point where some of the statements being made are so easily refutable, so verifiably and unquestionably false, that you have to presume that the people writing them know that. This is a simple list of well-known people who suffer (or have suffered) from thyroid disorders. Houses live longer than people and the harsh fact is that we are just passing through. But there is a deeper issue at play. All the best to you both! He remains committed to one goal: to uncover the stories of those who have long been deemed unimportant. mstp i had atropic autoimmune thyroiditis but had bouts of hyperthyroidism which were terrifying and think I may have mild thyroid eye disease. Johnson and Olusoga shed light on scientific breakthroughs and reveal how collective efforts around the world can lead to extraordinary outcomes, including doubling the human lifespan in under a century. I am wondering who is treating her, it would be good to know that. Historians who dont get that tend to be the ones who struggle to get anyone to care about their work. Read about our approach to external linking. Labour MP David Lammy, who was critical to bringing the matter to light, called it a "watershed moment". But he has always had a third identity. Video, 00:01:00, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. We set out to discover if it was possible to take a single house and, through old newspapers, documents in the archives and whatever other clues or scraps of evidence we could find, tell the story of all the people who live there; from the day the first resident turned the key in the front door, all the way up to today. So he calls himself a Geordie. grannydoug How civilised , hes fast asleep on the sofa unaware the rest of us - bar Big Jack greyhound who is also in the sitting room snoozing by the radiator - have gone to bed, 2 are under the duvet, one on top, and one is on the dog bed - all very cosy! The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. They hold on to the belief that the UK was a white country until the past few decades and refuse to accept evidence that shows the presence of black people goes back centuries. When he wrote his first book on the 1904-08 Namibian genocide, he went to mass graves where he saw bones sticking out of the ground. The information has been collected from many internet sites. Historian David Olusoga follows the residents in the house in Liverpool from the 1850s to the 1890s to illuminate changes in history as revealed by their lives. I recently read his book Black & British, The Forgotten History. I write Georgian-style because it was built in 1840, the third year of Victorias reign. Its not to make people feel good.. Video, 00:01:18Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, One-minute World News. By way of an excuse, and by chance, I spent four years living with the same disease. *A House Through Time aired on BBC2 on Saturday evening at 6.15pm, The documentary also tells the story of Esther, an 'extraordinary woman' with a connection to the house. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. Video, 00:00:41, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. A House Through Time BBC2 9pm Thursday is well worth watching. U.S presidents! You have to have a real tenure in the country to play your ancestors. That moment, he says, was profoundly beautiful. Interesting! Olusoga was confident about having two identities, despite the prejudice he had encountered. "If the Commonwealth War Graves Commission had set up a committee and discovered that 100,000 white British soldiers lay in mass graves - unmarked, uncommemorated - and the documentation proved that that had been deliberate, what would they do?" Read about our approach to external linking. Video, 00:00:41Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. suprising to see a few athletes with graves, I'm finding walking up the road leaves me breathless.. Read about our approach to external linking. The report concluded that the failure to properly commemorate the individuals was influenced by a scarcity of information, errors inherited from other organisations and the opinions of colonial administrators. Though things were dubbed "rosy" at first, they eventually took an unexpected turn. But knowing the historical facts and the bleak statistics is very different to reading of Esther Lublins tragic life, our shared diagnosis, her name and age younger than I am now scrawled on to her death certificate by a busy doctor. Historian David Olusoga gave a blistering speech about the racism he faced in the British TV industry (Picture: BBC) David Olusoga delivered a hard-hitting speech about the racism he faced. An inquiry has found at least 116,000 mostly African and Middle Eastern casualties from World War One "were not commemorated by name or possibly not commemorated at all" after they died fighting for the British Empire. Do you have a relative who was not properly commemorated? Anyhow I'm currently pretty good and I've laughed at the image of a lively Italian greyhound pouncing all over you. History is just history. In 1883, couple Alfred and Anne Robinson, Liverpudlians "through and through" had taken residence in the well-known house. They span the social spectrum, from the well-to-do Victorian gentlemen to the families who huddled together in single rooms during the decades after the second world war when the house degenerated into a tenement slum. Though of course I don't feel so alone on this website either! Video, 00:01:18, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Shadow justice secretary Mr Lammy told the BBC that while making the documentary in Kenya and Tanzania, he discovered mass graves in which Africans had been "dumped with no commemoration whatsoever". You have to have a real tenure in the country to play your ancestors a recreation of the Empire Windrush at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in 2012. lusoga was born in Lagos in 1970, to a white British mother and a Nigerian father, moving to his mothers home town, Gateshead, at an early age. The real stuff of human life love, childhood, vulnerability, intimacy, betrayal, acceptance and pain is revealed behind closed doors and drawn curtains. I think about them when I read the letters, when I look at their photographs and their faces. David Olusoga Retweeted UplandsTV. David Olusoga on Commonwealth War Graves Commission apology, War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history' Video, 00:01:59, War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history', Up Next. A House Through Time begins on BBC2 on 4 January, Studying the past of one terraced Liverpool home for BBC2s A House Through Time has brought Britains real history to life, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. It was presented as impossible a dualism that couldnt exist, because whiteness and Britishness were the same thing when I was growing up. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. I am having a a bit of a down after 3 years feeling really well on NDT not sure why I seem to be having a blip. The enmity I feel towards the trader in slave-produced cotton who lived in the house, and whose personal life was lived with as much callous disregard for others as his professional life, is real and involuntary. He was 14. Give your doggie a fuss from me - they are such darlings, the affection crazy, limpet like hyperactive Italians can be a tad trying at times but they melt your heart with one loving gaze into your eyes and soul! Two people with the same disease. History is about people. For her there were few options. The time date was about the same we have only just sold the house and I was sorry but it had to go. People are in alphabetic order of their names (not surname). Both survived and that side of the family had the good genes so were lucky. No other city has been more buffeted by the cycles of boom and bust and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the place that once proudly saw itself as the second city of empire suffered more than any other when that empire suddenly evaporated. Lots of them. Video, 00:00:42Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. You can also get in touch in the following ways: If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Ultimately you have to care about the people you encounter through your research, if you want anyone else to. Or having just walked up a staircase, holding the wooden banister that their hands once gripped. Video, 00:01:00, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. Houses live longer than people and the harsh fact is that we are just passing through. I also feel for those who do not regain full health even on medication - that is a cruel outcome. But knowing the historical facts and the bleak statistics is very different to reading of Esther Lublins tragic life, our shared diagnosis, her name and age younger than I am now scrawled on to her death certificate by a busy doctor. ll old houses are haunted. First published in 2016, and made into a TV series the same year, the book charts black British history from the first meeting between the people of Britain and the people of Africa during the Roman period, to the racism Olusoga encountered during his own childhood, via Britain's role in the slave trade and the scramble for Africa.It is a story that some of Olusoga's critics would prefer . They had terrible problems trying to destroy her thyroid with RAI and thought she could die, she suffered bad thryoid eye disease which might be why I opened up to her, suspecting she might have thyroid problems. Another one to add to your list is historian David Olusoga. Yet apologists for empire, in particular, like to dismiss him as a woke historian in an attempt to politicise his work or flatly deny the realities that he points out. And I felt quite misunderstood by my then GP and work colleagues. The thought usually comes late at night or early in the morning, when our eye is caught by what estate agents like to call an original feature, or a patch of peeling wallpaper or flaking paint reveals what lies beneath. One of the residents was a Jewish woman who died of Graves disease in 19 century prior to effective treatment. Because to live in an old house is to share your most intimate space with the dead. One person had undiagnosed Graves disease complicated by terrible find the cause of her problems and improve her health so that she can enjoy life with her three Phantoms of the Mind, Radio 4 is well worth a listen. I rather like slow ponderous programmes, Stephen Poliakoff plays being my ultimate fix which I expect you would find tedious beyond belief! An inquiry by the commission was set up following a 2019 Channel 4 documentary, called Unremembered, which was presented by Mr Lammy. Outlining the next steps, Mr Wallace said the Commonwealth War Graves Commission will: Mr Wallace also announced a public consultation over plans to waive the visa fee for service personnel from the Commonwealth and Nepal who choose to settle in the UK in order to honour their contribution. Video, 00:01:00One-minute World News, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Ill give it another try, thanks for posting! He is 49 years old. Or when your boot turns over a piece of shrapnel on a first world war battlefield and you have to stop yourself speculating about what that muddy chunk of steel might have done to flesh and bone. My Father and his sister had scarlet fever and they were both in isolation. I care about them. In January, Robert Jenrick, the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, said he would introduce laws to protect statues from what he called baying mobs. EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER is a multiplatform collaboration. Video, 00:00:36, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Only a kangaroo court in a one-party state would pass judgment on the basis of such flimsy evidence. Esther sadly died of Graves' disease aged . I was right. Esther sadly died of Graves' disease aged just 44 and her former husband Edward left Liverpool for Denmark. I have been equally surprised at my capacity to feel sympathy and empathy for the sufferings of people whom I only know from patchy documentary evidence. He has a simple response: that he has been trying to get a programme made about it for his entire career and it is finally happening. Video, 00:01:28The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. This adds to the evidence that thousands of black people were brought to Britain, enslaved as well as free. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is tasked with commemorating those who died in the two world wars, has also apologised over its findings. My Grandmother lived in the house she was born in. [2] He has presented historical documentaries on the BBC and contributed to The One Show and The Guardian. 25-year-old Edward Lublin, a ship broker, moved in as one of Elizabeth's tenants, before marrying and moving out with his young bride, Esther - though he stayed on Falkner Street and set up home at number 82. It is not there as a place of greater safety.. 62 Falkner Street, the subject of the BBC documentary. David Olusoga Why did it take our TV documentary to push the Commonwealth War Graves Commission into righting a wrong they had long known about? Historian David Olusoga talks about why he's campaigning to get minority communities in the UK to take the vaccine and why that hesitancy exists in Britain and beyond. David Olusoga's look at a forgotten history shows there's always been black in the Union Jack Black and British: A Forgotten History addresses one of the greatest silences in British historiography. Im hoping the call of spring will gradually put me right again. Johnson is the best-selling author of 12 books, including The Ghost Map, one of the seminal books on epidemics. Black Londoners dressed up as their ancestors for the opening ceremony, with long, baggy suits, holding their suitcases, says Olusoga. The war graves commission was founded with a remit to remember every individual who had died in World War One, regardless of rank, class, religion or race. Video, 00:01:18Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, One-minute World News. We all know that until the 20th century billions died of diseases for which cures now exist. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. For Olusoga, 51, this hostility can in part be explained by ignorance. She must have known that, sooner or later, the condition would kill her. Between 45,000 and 54,000 Asian and African personnel who died in the conflict were "commemorated unequally", the commission said. Teachers of children from pre-K through 12th grade turn to PBS for digital content and services that help bring classroom lessons to life. Thanks TSH110. David, who returns to our screens in the BBC series A House Through . In 2020, protesters in more than 260 British towns and cities took part in BLM protests, thought to be the most widespread anti-racist movement since the abolition of the slave trade. Nothing about this can be said to be truly revelatory. As one of a handful of mixed-race families on the council estate where they lived, they were regularly terrorised by the far right. I started off with Graves. Thats my job to care about them. Video, 00:01:18, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. It was rare for divorce papers to be filed at that time and was an extraordinarily difficult thing to do, with proceedings only able to be heard at the forbidding Central Criminal Court in London. Yet over the months my disdain for this ghost from the archives has grown, despite my attempts at professional detachment. I suspect I have forgotten dozens of people who I know should be included, let alone the untold number I do not know about. 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She fully comprehended all I was going through and my feelings of total isolation completely evaporated she really helped me come to terms with my illness and to appreciate how much more awful it can be for others mine was bad but as nothing compared to her terrible suffering also I had more idea of what was wrong because others in the family had suffered with thyroid disorders but as my mother and sister both had thyroid cancer and they were very slow to do any ultrasound on me to check me for it, that greatly added to how bad I felt with the additional and unnecessary worry. When the book was published in 2016, it ended on a hopeful note. Best-selling author Steven Johnson (The Ghost Map, HOW WE GOT TO NOW) and historian and broadcaster David Olusoga (CIVILIZATIONS, "Black & British: A Forgotten History") combine expertise to . David Olusoga on Commonwealth War Graves Commission apology. Video, 00:01:51, Lockdown hits nephew's 11,000-mile war grave trip, I look after the grave of a soldier Ive never met Video, 00:01:57, I look after the grave of a soldier Ive never met, Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead. But it is all too easy to start caring about figures from the past if you find yourself reading the documents that record their lives while sitting in what was once their kitchen. The practice evolved out of the 19th century science of epidemiology and cholera mortality reports in the 1840s, where the now ubiquitous curve of an epidemicwas first documented. "We promised the victims of that genocide that we would be their voice, we would fight for them and we would tell their story - and we use every . Something went wrong, please try again later. The lives of all of the people whose stories make up the links in that chain run through the house, because, for each of them, walking through that front door meant that they were home. Video, 00:01:51Lockdown hits nephew's 11,000-mile war grave trip, I look after the grave of a soldier Ive never met Video, 00:01:57I look after the grave of a soldier Ive never met, Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead. I found so many very short lists or stories about one person and I would like to make a much, much bigger list. Tonight's episode focused on the relationships of the people who lived at the property. The summer afterwards, vans bearing the message Go home or face arrest were driven around London as part of Theresa Mays notorious hostile environment strategy, aiming to make the UK inhospitable for undocumented migrants. I declare a bit of a bias against some of the more air-headed end of Z-list slebs wondered why Lincoln didn't grow a moustache with his beard, eyebrows look ok tho'? I lived, she died because we were born in different centuries. The house, built in 1840, has been home to a cross-section of British society, warts and all. PBS, with more than 330 member stations, offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and digital content. They have been able to convince people that their own history, being explored by their own historians and being investigated by their own children and grandchildren, is a threat to them.. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace apologises: "There can be no doubt prejudice played a part in some of the commission's decisions". Although large, elegant and, in the early 21st century, extremely desirable, it is not unique. Video, 00:00:42Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. Now more than ever, we need powerful storytelling that captures and explains the achievements in public health and medicine over the past few centuries, said Johnson. Because to live in an old house is to share your most intimate space with the same.. 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