Houses live longer than people and the harsh fact is that we are just passing through. The extremes of Liverpools story are reflected in the lives of the occupants of 62 Falkner Street. 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 Britains role in the slave trade and the scramble for Africa. There are hundreds like it in Liverpool and many thousands more across the country. Only a kangaroo court in a one-party state would pass judgment on the basis of such flimsy evidence. David Olusoga also mentioned he has suffered for the last four years with Graves disease and found her death particularly poignant and felt some of her pain, and it is only by virtue of being born in modern times that the disease can be treated and he has survived. EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER is a multiplatform collaboration. istorys purpose isnt to comfort us, says. At a meeting in London, it was said that the governor, F G Guggisberg, said: "The average native of the Gold Coast would not understand or appreciate a headstone. Specific program information and updates for press are available at pbs.org/pressroom or by following PBS Pressroom on Twitter. You have to have a real tenure in the country to play your ancestors. That moment, he says, was profoundly beautiful. Video, 00:00:41, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. I have found myself marvelling at my capacity to feel genuine dislike for men who died over a century before my birth. 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. He is doing a great series using residents through time of a house in Liverpool to illuminate major changes in history through their lives - excellent viewing, as has been all his history programes I have seen. Video, 00:01:28The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. 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 . ET on PBS, and stream via pbs.org and the PBS Video app. Unless of course with the many forms of hypothyroidism, some just do not sap your energy to that degree. DO was greatly moved especially as he said he has suffered with Graves disease for 4 years and could relate to some of her pain. It brings slavery to Britain and therefore undermines the idea that it doesnt really matter because it happened over there, says Olusoga. What was the role of British Empire soldiers in WW1? Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. Elizabeth placed adverts in the local paper to rent out rooms in her home as she had no other means of earning money. *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. 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. Other family members have also got lymphoma of the thyroid but thankfully I was spared that! The report said Mr Browne's response showed "what he may have considered foresight, but one that was explicitly framed by contemporary racial prejudice". To support the Guardian, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. mstp he had the actual death certificate and read from it the lady died of a heart attack as a complication of Graves disease and I remember seeing Graves written on it in perfect copperplate handwriting . The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Video, 00:00:42Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. 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. 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. I lived, she died because we were born in different centuries. 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. Recently, historians have uncovered notices of runaway enslaved people or advertisements for their sale. "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?" Not by ghosts but by the lives of others. "The events of a century ago were wrong then and are wrong now," it said. I had feared that Graves disease would waste years of my life, before modern treatments could bring it under control. 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. 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. 62 Falkner Street, the subject of the BBC documentary. ", War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history' Video, 00:01:59War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history', Up Next. ", War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history' Video, 00:01:59War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history', Up Next. I enjoyed the first episode. But that figure could be as high as 350,000, it said. 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'm hypo now but it was a grim time before my Graves was diagnosed so I really feel for the lady. We're being criticised for using the word apartheid to describe Voi Cemetery in Kenya. Endocrinology Two people with the same disease. So many and as Carolyn said, a lot of politicians , particuarily. 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. It was presented as impossible a dualism that couldnt exist, because whiteness and Britishness were the same thing when I was growing up. 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. 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 remember telling a fellow dog walker I had always said hello to about my problems and she opened up to tell me about her awful time with graves when she was only in her late teens. 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. Video, 00:01:00, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Video, 00:00:42, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. Wow! 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 . Im also black British and that had no history, no recognition. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. I experienced racism from teachers in ways that are shocking if I tell them to young people at school now, says Olusoga. Im really frightened about the future of this country, and frightened about people using forces of race and racism for electoral reasons and not being cognisant about how difficult it is to control those forces after elections have been counted, says Olusoga. Video, 00:01:00At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. 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. He was dyslexic, but the school refused to get him tested until he did his GCSEs: It was the easier story to believe that this kid was stupid because all black kids are stupid. When he finally got his diagnosis and support thanks in large part to his mothers fierce determination Olusoga went to study history at the University of Liverpool, followed by a masters degree at Leicester. Historian David Olusoga, presenter of A House Through Time, outside 62 Falkner Street, Liverpool. EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER will stream simultaneously with broadcast and be available on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS Video app, available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Samsung Smart TV and Chromecast. I was actually surprised at the proportion of people in the list with Graves. Reading the grim details of a Victorian domestic violence case, while walking through the rooms in which those beatings and beratings took place, felt almost voyeuristic. 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". Another one to add to your list is historian David Olusoga. I had both hypo and hyper symptoms and it was truly grim before I finally got a diagnosis having the final dump of thyroxine and going completely bonkers and then being plunged into eternal hypo - the cold was indescribably awful and I felt so bad death would have been a merciful release but I got treatment in the nick of time and pulled through. Tonight's episode focused on the relationships of the people who lived at the property. TSH110 Many thanks for the link to The Guardian. I rather like slow ponderous programmes, Stephen Poliakoff plays being my ultimate fix which I expect you would find tedious beyond belief! For her there were few options. Watch for yourself. 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. As part of the commission's work to search for unnamed war dead and those who are potentially not commemorated, it will also look at those who died in World War Two, although it is not thought that inequalities seen in WW1 were as widespread then. Interesting list! I recently read his book Black & British, The Forgotten History. 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. An inquiry has found at least 116,000 mostly African and Middle Eastern casualties from World War One "were not commemorated by name or . "Whilst we can't change the past, we can make amends and take action," he said. Joining thyroid uk has really helped me on a pretty harsh journey towards proper recovery I agree it really helps in not feeling alone with all the problems that can occur with ones thyroid going on the blink. Read about our approach to external linking. (He is also on the board of the Scott Trust, which owns Guardian Media Group.) If you have been told a version of your history and that is part of your identity, its very difficult when people like me come along and say: There are these chapters [that you need to know about]. People feel wrongly in my view that their history is being undermined by my history. Surprisingly, though Alfred did not contest Anne's claims, the divorce did not go ahead and the proceedings were discontinued. Im hoping the call of spring will gradually put me right again. VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. Its not to make people feel good.. 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. Thanks TSH110. I dont feel challenged in my right to be proud to be British, he says. To view profiles and participate in discussions please. Timed to the series premiere, Riverhead will publish a book authored by Johnson titled EXTRA LIFE: A Short History of Living Longer (Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House; on sale May 11, 2021). Sewnsew the bit on Graves was very short so I dont want to build up your expectations. TV historian David Olusoga has told of the racism he faced as a child - and how Gazza came to his rescue in primary school. History doesnt exist to make us feel good, special, exceptional or magical. Esther sadly died of Graves' disease aged just 44 and her former husband Edward left Liverpool for Denmark. 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. A generation has emerged that doesnt need history to perform that role of comfort that its parents and grandparents did, he says. Never delay seeking advice or dialling emergency services because of something that you have read on HealthUnlocked. David Adetayo Olusoga OBE (born January 1970 [1]) is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, presenter and film-maker. 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 . One woman was left alone in the Georgian terrace after her husband's unexpected death, while another tried to file for divorce at an incredibly difficult time. 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. It short-circuits an idea of British exceptionalism. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. But this is to fundamentally misunderstand what drives him and also why this history is important for black people. 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. Houses live longer than people and the harsh fact is that we are just passing through. Part of that is achieved by being open to at least trying to feel something of what they felt. But they are what draws us to the archives and set us off on early morning trips across overgrown cemeteries. The Robinsons then moved next door, to number 64. Why DO said she died of heart failure I am not sure as the albinurea indicates kidney disease perhaps he used other sources to get full details. Anne claimed her husband had been violent towards her and had also committed adultery with a woman, with indiscretions taking place at the Hanover Street hotel in Liverpool, as well as various locations across the city. One of the residents was a Jewish woman who died of Graves disease in 19 century prior to effective treatment. 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. 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. Some troops were commemorated collectively or their names were recorded in registers, while their white counterparts had headstones. 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? And that must lead you to another assumption, which is that they know that this is not true, but they have decided that these national myths are so important to them and their political projects, or their sense of who they are, that they dont really care about the historical truths behind them. 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.. As one of a handful of mixed-race families on the council estate where they lived, they were regularly terrorised by the far right. It was a gruesome experience but I appreciate how lucky I am to be living in modern times cheating my true destiny with medication and getting some pretty good extra years - a real bonus! Video, 00:01:00One-minute World News, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. 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