By David Dabydeen (Photo By Alamy) Nineteen eighty-four was a transformative year for David Olusoga. 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. Video, 00:01:14Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. The idea of equal treatment was controversial, but it became a cornerstone of remembrance. ll old houses are haunted. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. If you were taught a history that the first black person to put his foot on English soil was stepping off the Windrush in 1948, then this can seem like a conspiracy, he says. . I recently read his book Black & British, The Forgotten History. 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. Houses live longer than people and the harsh fact is that we are just passing through. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. David Olusoga on Commonwealth War Graves Commission apology. While the series features many leading public health authorities and scientists on the front lines of the current pandemic, EXTRA LIFE examines the bigger picture and sparks a global conversation about how weve learned to save lives. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. A statue of the slave trader Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol; a Guardian analysis suggests about 70 monuments to slavers and colonialists have been removed, or are in the process of being removed, across the UK. Video, 00:01:20WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech, EU Chief on NI deal: 'We were honest with each other' Video, 00:00:36EU Chief on NI deal: 'We were honest with each other', The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives. 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 . 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. The information has been collected from many internet sites. 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. I watched it and found it very interesting. 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. A House Through Time is well worth watching. Endocrinology Interesting! Video, 00:00:42Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. Video, 00:01:18Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, One-minute World News. He said it was a travesty that men who served the British Empire were not commemorated properly, but welcomed the report. I had feared that Graves disease would waste years of my life, before modern treatments could bring it under control. Video, 00:01:00, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. Black Londoners dressed up as their ancestors for the opening ceremony, with long, baggy suits, holding their suitcases, says Olusoga. A woman who seemed to have it all was forced to rent out her home after her husband died from cholera. My Grandmother lived in the house she was born in. 2023 BBC. David Olusoga on Commonwealth War Graves Commission apology. Something went wrong, please try again later. For Olusoga, 51, this hostility can in part be explained by ignorance. Im also black British and that had no history, no recognition. An inquiry by the commission was set up following a 2019 Channel 4 documentary, called Unremembered, which was presented by Mr Lammy. 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. Olusoga 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. It brings slavery to Britain and therefore undermines the idea that it doesnt really matter because it happened over there, says Olusoga. Everyone moans about the NHS but so many diseases are now gone not only because of modern medicine but hygiene clean water etc and drainage. Video, 00:01:20WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech, EU Chief on NI deal: 'We were honest with each other' Video, 00:00:36EU Chief on NI deal: 'We were honest with each other', The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives. David Olusoga: As a child I never presumed the racism I experienced would ever stop We asked the historian and presenter, 50, what his younger self would make of his life, and how his. 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. A generation has emerged that doesnt need history to perform that role of comfort that its parents and grandparents did, he says. The extremes of Liverpools story are reflected in the lives of the occupants of 62 Falkner Street. Ms Horton said the report was "sober" reading but gave the commission the ability - "now that we know the numbers and the areas to look" - to start the searches properly to "right the wrongs of the past". 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.. Historians love to talk about how we can get closer to the people of the past, but when it happens of its own volition the effects can be unnerving. Saturday, September 18, 2021 Lots of them. The other outrage is that the Commonwealth War Graves commission knew about this for years . She devoted herself to the education of her three daughters and she and one of them even went on to meet Queen Victoria at the opening of the Royal Holloway College for Women. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. When I discovered that one late-Victorian resident of the house had died of heart failure, caused by years living under the shadow of a thyroid condition known as Graves disease, I was astonished by how emotional rather than objective and professional was my response to her story. Video, 00:01:00At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. Yes me too. I think about them when I read the letters, when I look at their photographs and their faces. He remains committed to one goal: to uncover the stories of those who have long been deemed unimportant. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. Video, 00:01:00One-minute World News, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. I rather like slow ponderous programmes, Stephen Poliakoff plays being my ultimate fix which I expect you would find tedious beyond belief! Video, 00:01:00View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. 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. It was presented as impossible a dualism that couldnt exist, because whiteness and Britishness were the same thing when I was growing up. Please share your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. Content on HealthUnlocked does not replace the relationship between you and doctors or other healthcare professionals nor the advice you receive from them. He says that some of the aggression shown towards black historians who write honestly about Britains past comes from people who think this history is important because it gives black people the right to be here. 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. The report picked out an example from 1923 when the governor of the Gold Coast colony, now Ghana, argued for collective memorials rather than individual ones. Gaynor Evans has lived at 62 Falkner Street with her two children for nearly eight years. Thanks TSH110. A freeze frame would probably show all the info from a download of the programme. 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. 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. 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. "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?" This is what he said in the Guardian: I discovered that one late-Victorian resident of the house had died of heart failure, caused by years living under the shadow of a thyroid condition known as Graves disease, I was astonished by how emotional rather than objective and professional was my response to her story. It was silent about our shared, inner and domestic histories, the stories of the rest of us, the ungreat, who live quietly and privately in anonymous terraced houses. ", War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history' Video, 00:01:59War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history', Up Next. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. In the 1880s, Elizabeth Bowes had moved out of Falkner Street and it became the number we know it as today - 62. And he said there were examples of officials employing an "overarching imperial ideology connected to racial and religious differences" in order to "divide the dead and treat them unequally in ways that were impossible in Europe". The reverse of course, is, perhaps those who have energy & laboured breathing problems (probably caused by the meds) it's just either tough or there is a lot more going on especially in the adrenal area. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. Studying the past of one terraced Liverpool home for BBC2's A House Through Time has brought Britain's real history to life Historian David Olusoga, presenter of A House Through Time, outside. I have been thinking about this recently because I spent last autumn engaged in a unique television experiment. Nothing about this can be said to be truly revelatory. Read about our approach to external linking. PBSs broad array of programs has been consistently honored by the industrys most coveted award competitions. ET on PBS, and stream via pbs.org and the PBS Video app. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. David Olusoga, the charismatic, dulcet-voiced television historian and professor of public history at Manchester University, was born in Nigeria to a black father but raised for most of his. 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. The time date was about the same we have only just sold the house and I was sorry but it had to go. It is not there as a place of greater safety.. Because to live in an old house is to share your most intimate space with the dead. I care about them. "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 . History, to me, is all about those shiver-down-the-spine moments. Presenter David revealed residents weren't aware the disease was being transmitted through drinking water. Video, 00:01:00, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. Olusoga was writing just a few years after the London Olympics, in which a tantalising view of Britain emerged a country at ease with its multiculturalism, nodding with pride to the arrival of the Windrush generation in 1948. Presented by historian David Olusoga, the episode, which was a repeat, focused on a number of women attempting to overturn Victorian social norms. We all know that until the 20th century billions died of diseases for which cures now exist. Mr Wallace said: "On behalf of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the government both of the time and today, I want to apologise for the failures to live up to their founding principles all those years ago and express deep regret that it has taken so long to rectify the situation. 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. 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. Esther sadly died of Graves' disease aged . Read about our approach to external linking. It is at home, with our partners, parents and children, that we are genuinely ourselves. Im perfectly comfortable in my identity. Ive looked at this history because its just exciting to be part of a long story. Lockdown hits nephew's 11,000-mile war grave trip. Never delay seeking advice or dialling emergency services because of something that you have read on HealthUnlocked. Oh, I didn't know it was him doing it.Thanks for the reminder, I'll watch it on catch-up. "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. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace apologised in the Commons after a report blamed "pervasive racism". How are they able to get energy up?. Because to live in an old house is to share your most intimate space with the dead. 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. Could explain a lot! No one gave a damn about them. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. disease, mass transportation, crime and class. It also cited racist comments such as the governor of a British colony saying in 1923 that: "The average native would not understand or appreciate a headstone. Anyhow I'm currently pretty good and I've laughed at the image of a lively Italian greyhound pouncing all over you. Each month, PBS reaches over 120 million people through television and 26 million people online, inviting them to experience the worlds of science, history, nature and public affairs; to hear diverse viewpoints; and to take front row seats to world-class drama and performances. Video, 00:01:00, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. The series is executive produced by Jane Root, Nicola Moody, Fiona Caldwell and Steven Johnson, and directed by Duncan Singh, Helen Sage, Tristan Quinn, David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg. I have had an under active thyroid for 25yrs, I take 150mg thyroxine daily. To view profiles and participate in discussions please. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. 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 . I too live in Liverpool and am finding the programme to be really interesting, especially DO's references to Graves. Recently, historians have uncovered notices of runaway enslaved people or advertisements for their sale. My Father and his sister had scarlet fever and they were both in isolation. 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. There is no official register of historians. Lockdown hits nephew's 11,000-mile war grave trip. Doing this post was an an achievement with one of my Italian greyhounds deliberately trying to stop me typing, using body blocking, clawing and even sitting on top of the iPad, because he wants my full attention , I imagined seeing Graves' disease on it! neurological problems. Content on HealthUnlocked does not replace the relationship between you and doctors or other healthcare professionals nor the advice you receive from them. History doesnt exist to make us feel good, special, exceptional or magical. 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. 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. Video, 00:00:42, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. A close encounter between historian and subject. After John's sudden death, Elizabeth was left alone on Falkner Street. Thousands of people who had lived legally in the UK for decades, often people who had arrived from the Caribbean as children, were suddenly targeted for deportation. 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. Both survived and that side of the family had the good genes so were lucky. Thought: This list includes three presidents of the USA more than 6% of all of them, and all male. Nothing about this can be said to be truly revelatory. I think the chapter in Black and British about that is 30,000 words, which is as long as some books.. 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. Video, 00:01:00One-minute World News, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. Part of that is achieved by being open to at least trying to feel something of what they felt. 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