To read their letters from within the house in which they were written, or to hold in your hands their death certificates, while standing on their front steps or in their bedroom, is a strangely intimate experience. Video, 00:01:14, Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. The couple living at 62 Falkner Street in the late 1800s, which at the time was number 58, was John and Elizabeth Bowes. I dont feel challenged in my right to be proud to be British, he says. My Grandmother lived in the house she was born in. 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've got the opposite a furry, elderly border collie lying/sitting on my foot as we sit in front of the fire. Very moving and somehow making me feel not so alone with my thyroid condition. I care about them. A few days after reading the 1880s death certificate of Esther Lublin I found myself alone in my office, on the top floor of my house, reading old diaries, remembering how painful it had been. Presented by historian David Olusoga, the episode, which was a repeat, focused on a number of women attempting to overturn Victorian social norms. It was presented as impossible a dualism that couldnt exist, because whiteness and Britishness were the same thing when I was growing up. Another one to add to your list is historian David Olusoga. 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. Despite having a difficult time in school Olusoga was diagnosed with dyslexia at age 14 there he developed a love of history from a favorite teacher and the television he watched. If walls could talk it would be our homes not our grand public buildings that would have all the best stories. The real stuff of human life love, childhood, vulnerability, intimacy, betrayal, acceptance and pain is revealed behind closed doors and drawn curtains. I experienced racism from teachers in ways that are shocking if I tell them to young people at school now, says Olusoga. I started off with Graves. But they are what draws us to the archives and set us off on early morning trips across overgrown cemeteries. My Father and his sister had scarlet fever and they were both in isolation. Ive looked at this history because its just exciting to be part of a long story. Delivered through member stations, PBS KIDS offers high-quality educational content on TV including a 24/7 channel, online at pbskids.org, via an array of mobile apps and in communities across America. The professor and broadcaster discusses writing black Britishness back into history, the backlash this provokes and why hes so proud of his heritage, Historys purpose isnt to comfort us, says David Olusoga, although many in the UK seem to think it is. An inquiry has found at least 116,000 mostly African and Middle Eastern casualties from World War One "were not commemorated by name or . As for black peoples experiences in Britain, he says, there is a hysterical level of anger if you point out that many have lived in some form of slavery or unfreedom. Graves would be a most dreadful way to die and I often shudder to think of the millions who died from thyroid disorders before any treatment was available. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. ", In response, commission employee Arthur Browne said: "In perhaps two or three hundred years' time, when the native population had reached a higher stage of civilisation, they might then be glad to see that headstones had been erected on the native graves and that the native soldiers had received precisely the same treatment as their white comrades.". Gaynor Evans has lived at 62 Falkner Street with her two children for nearly eight years. Historian Prof David Olusoga, whose TV company produced Unremembered, told BBC Breakfast that apologies were not enough and resources would need to be committed if the commission was serious about restorative justice. The New York Times Magazine will publish a special issue, featuring a lead article by Johnson, that will delve into the larger history of science, medicine and public health. 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! 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. And there are a lot of people for whom that idea of exceptionalism is a part of how they see themselves. Video, 00:01:00, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. 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. It has changed so much in the pool since I was a girl - for the better Id say. So, to discover that there was a history of being black and British, independent from being half white working-class and being half black Nigerian, that was what was critically important to me, he says. In the new edition of Black and British, which includes a chapter on the Windrush scandal and last years Black Lives Matter protests, Olusoga describes that moment in 2012 as a mirage. EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER to Premiere onMay 11, 2021 on PBS, Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Steven Johnson and David Olusoga Guide Viewers Through Three Centuries of Health Innovations. 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. I write Georgian-style because it was built in 1840, the third year of Victorias reign. Next door in a scruffy field is where their African comrades are buried - no names, just a general memorial. Ive recently found myself grateful for this omission because of all the historical projects I have worked on, none has made it so easy to cross lines, or so tempting to overstep marks. "The events of a century ago were wrong then and are wrong now," it said. My experience is nothing so bad but before I was diagnosed I had a miserable time. . 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. I struggle to think of a better phrase to describe this place. 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. 'The commission profoundly failed to live up to . The treatment goals for Graves' disease are to stop the production of thyroid hormones and to block the effect of the hormones on the body. "I'm just really, really pleased that the dignity that these men deserved - who were dragged from their villages and commandeered to work for the British Empire - that dignity that they deserve in death can be granted to them," he said. Did anyone read the symptoms on the death certificate? "Our shared duty is to honour and remember all those, wherever they lived and whatever their background, who laid down their lives for our freedoms at the moment of greatest peril," he said. Please send a private message to helvella if you find anything wrong, or have suggestions of people to add include a link if you have one. Saturday, September 18, 2021 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 guide viewers across 300 years of medical innovation, and go behind the scenes of modern medicine to meet the unsung heroes who are tackling COVID-19 and other public health threats. ", David Matthews tells the story of his great-uncle who fought in World War One. The commission, which was founded in 1917 as the Imperial War Graves Commission, said the events of a century ago were wrong then and were wrong now. The UK and US based company is credited with creating the television genre known as the mega-doc, combining epic, motion picture-quality cinematography, action-driven content and prominent Hollywood actors to produce and star in the projects. To talk about the past residents of the house, to make judgments about them, to sum up their achievements or discuss their failings, from the upstairs sitting room in which they showed off their wealth and entertained their guests one and a half centuries earlier, felt a little presumptuous and almost transgressive. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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. Watch for yourself. I lived, she died because we were born in different centuries. istorys purpose isnt to comfort us, says. Episode Two:Medical Drugs focuses on the more recent medical inventions that combat illness directly, particularly antibiotics, and the development of antiviral drugs for HIV. The time date was about the same we have only just sold the house and I was sorry but it had to go. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace apologised in the Commons after a report blamed "pervasive racism". History, to me, is all about those shiver-down-the-spine moments. Read about our approach to external linking. Tonights episode was particularly interesting and pertinent as it brought home about thyroid disease being a death sentence before treatment became available, as the death certificate of Jewish woman who lived in the house revealed she died young of Graves disease. The violence culminated in a brick being thrown into the familys home, wrapped in a note demanding they be sent back. Presenter David revealed residents weren't aware the disease was being transmitted through drinking water. Video, 00:01:14Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. I lived, she died because we were born in different centuries. Mr Wallace expressed "deep regret" in the House of Commons, as he told MPs there was "no doubt" prejudice had played a part in what happened after WWI. Recent projects include A World of Calm, based on the meditation and sleep app from the billion-dollar tech company Calm, Babies, exploring the key developmental years in life, and Emmy Award-nominated The World According to Jeff Goldblum. Nutopia also produced, the much-honored National Geographic series One Strange Rock; the BBC/PBS co-production Civilizations; interactive series The Great American Read; and Emmy Award-winning series How We Got to Now and America: The Story of the US. Upcoming projects include Limitless, with Chris Hemsworth, and Welcome to the Earth (working title) with Will Smith for Disney+, and Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer for PBS. Video, 00:01:18, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. Olusoga recalls his family being driven out of his childhood home by the National Front (no plaque) The visit of Kings Khama III, Sebele I and Bathoen I to England in 1895, leading to the foundation of Botswana (at the Botswanan Embassy in London) Charles Wotten, a victim of the 1919 Liverpool Race Riots (at Queen's Dock, Port of Liverpool) Presenter David branded Anne "courageous and a pioneer of the divorce courts". Lots of them. The ups and downs you mention are strange indeed. He also said Commonwealth soldiers should not be "whitewashed" out of history books, while Mr Wallace said it was a "deep regret" that his own WW1 education had included "very little about the contribution from the Commonwealth countries and the wider at the time British Empire". Im really frightened about the extent to which people are able to entirely dehumanise people who they deem to be their enemies in this culture war.. The report said Mr Browne's response showed "what he may have considered foresight, but one that was explicitly framed by contemporary racial prejudice". Across the four episodes of A House Through Time we uncover their stories, and that of the city in which they lived. TSH110 It sounds as if you've had a really rough ride. 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.. The rises and falls, the shifts in the fortunes of neighbourhoods and whole cities are here, tracing the often surprising journey one single house can take from an elegant dwelling in a fashionable . 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. Video, 00:00:41Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. His scholarship has been widely recognised: in 2019, he was awarded an OBE and made a professor at the University of Manchester. He studied. And I felt quite misunderstood by my then GP and work colleagues. I live in Liverpool, so enjoyed that. He gives another example: I have been accused literally hundreds of times of ignoring the slavery suppression squadron that the Royal Navy created after 1807. Its task was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of west Africa. History doesnt exist to make us feel good, special, exceptional or magical. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. 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". I was right. What his more extreme critics fail to understand, he adds, is that he is loyal to history and not a political agent. 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 still love it there and hope one day I will live there again - so good for cycling too. 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. I suspect I have forgotten dozens of people who I know should be included, let alone the untold number I do not know about. Part of the aim of A House is to answer the question that everyone who has ever lived in an old house has at some time or another asked themselves. Interesting list! I think the chapter in Black and British about that is 30,000 words, which is as long as some books.. Video, 00:01:14Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. 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. Our homes, the most acutely personal places in our lives, come to us secondhand, and invisibly link us to people we have never met, people to whom we have no association other than a single shared connection to place. Though things were dubbed "rosy" at first, they eventually took an unexpected turn. 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