I was sure he had a scar on his neck and must have had a thyroidectomy. 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. Thats my job to care about them. The report found that at least 116,000 casualties from WW1, most of whom were of African, Indian or Egyptian origin, "were not commemorated by name or possibly not commemorated at all". Historian David Olusoga, presenter of A House Through Time, outside 62 Falkner Street, Liverpool. 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. The house, built in 1840, has been home to a cross-section of British society, warts and all. 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. 'The commission profoundly failed to live up to . Wow! More information about PBS is available at www.pbs.org, one of the leading dot-org websites on the internet, or by following PBS on Twitter, Facebook or through our apps for mobile and connected devices. 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.. 11:08 - Source: CNN. But that upbeat note has begun to feel inaccurate an artefact of a more optimistic time. I care about them. I also feel for those who do not regain full health even on medication - that is a cruel outcome. David Olusoga is a British Nigerian historian, broadcaster and writer. Not by ghosts but by the lives of others. We all know that until the 20th century billions died of diseases for which cures now exist. He remains committed to one goal: to uncover the stories of those who have long been deemed unimportant. Im a woolyback originally but my scouse accent has dissipated away as I left Birkenhead when I was 18 - no work. But this movement for racial justice has been met with a severe backlash. 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. He was 14. A House Through Time is well worth watching. When the book was published in 2016, it ended on a hopeful note. 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. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. "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. All old houses are haunted. David believed Esther to be "extraordinary" and a person who was incredibly open to new ideas. Many historians I admire admit to such moments, although those admissions are to be made only in private and to other similarly afflicted historians or students. 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. Video, 00:01:14Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. Nothing about this can be said to be truly revelatory. 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. mstp i had atropic autoimmune thyroiditis but had bouts of hyperthyroidism which were terrifying and think I may have mild thyroid eye disease. By way of an excuse, and by chance, I spent four years living with the same disease. Video, 00:01:00View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. (He is also on the board of the Scott Trust, which owns Guardian Media Group.) 2023 BBC. 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. Could explain a lot! Melissa Porter ( hypothyroidism) claims that it was her illness that helped her to get the job of her dreams!!! . Too close and a little too real for comfort. But this is to fundamentally misunderstand what drives him and also why this history is important for black people. Yes me too. 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. For Olusoga, 51, this hostility can in part be explained by ignorance. I care about the names on slave ledgers, I care about the bones of people in Africa, in mass graves in the first world war and in riverbeds in Namibia. Six million soldiers from the British Empire served in WW1. "Whilst we can't change the past, we can make amends and take action," he said. It is not there as a place of greater safety.. After John's sudden death, Elizabeth was left alone on Falkner Street. For her there were few options. 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. Go home or face arrest a van in London in 2013, part of Theresa Mays hostile environment strategy. As one of a handful of mixed-race families on the council estate where they lived, they were regularly terrorised by the far right. We all know that until the 20th century billions died of diseases for which cures now exist. 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. Two people with the same disease. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission apologised after it found "pervasive racism" led to predominantly black and Asian service personnel not being formally remembered in the same way as white troops. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. Interesting! I had feared that Graves disease would waste years of my life, before modern treatments could bring it under control. Written by TSH110 To view profiles and participate in discussions please or . Now he can expect more flak, thanks to the new edition of his book Black and British: A Forgotten History. I dont feel challenged in my right to be proud to be British, he says. Historian David Olusoga told BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission was "another organisation that's had to be dragged into admitting its history. It has changed so much in the pool since I was a girl - for the better Id say. A freeze frame would probably show all the info from a download of the programme. 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. 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. 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. But he has always had a third identity. Boris Johnson said he is "deeply troubled" by failures to properly commemorate black and Asian troops who died fighting for the British Empire during World War One. Video, 00:00:42, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. For Olusoga, 51, this hostility can in part be explained by ignorance. Outside Europe, however, the commission enacted a policy of extreme discrimination, categorising the fallen as "white", "Indians" or what it called "natives". ", War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history' Video, 00:01:59War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history', Up Next. Video, 00:01:00, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. Video, 00:01:18Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, One-minute World News. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace apologised in the Commons after a report blamed "pervasive racism". "If you were taught a history that the first black person to put his foot on English soil was stepping off the Windrush in. 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. Esther sadly died of Graves' disease aged . 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. 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. 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. Video, 00:01:14, Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. All the best to you both! To support the Guardian, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. TSH110 Many thanks for the link to The Guardian. Ill give it another try, thanks for posting! Video, 00:00:42Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. I lived, she died because we were born in different centuries. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. Something went wrong, please try again later. U.S presidents! The ups and downs you mention are strange indeed. Episode One:Vaccinesexplores the history and use of vaccination, from early practices in Africa introduced to America during the slave trade and Thomas Jefferson's clinical trials, to the first anti-vax protests in the 19th century and COVID-19 today. The issue will also feature data visualizations and articles by historians and other science writers. Hidden that is very interesting - sorry the family house could not carry on but like DO said we are just transient and others go before us and will come after us in a dwelling place. No list from which practitioners of the art can be struck off for professional misconduct. My Father and his sister had scarlet fever and they were both in isolation. Nothing about this can be said to be truly revelatory. 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. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. ET on PBS, and stream via pbs.org and the PBS Video app. I was actually surprised at the proportion of people in the list with Graves. Video, 00:01:18Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, One-minute World News. By David Dabydeen (Photo By Alamy) Nineteen eighty-four was a transformative year for David Olusoga. And there are a lot of people for whom that idea of exceptionalism is a part of how they see themselves. If walls could talk it would be our homes not our grand public buildings that would have all the best stories. disease, mass transportation, crime and class. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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. It likely sparked fear for the wealthy residents of the impressive Georgian terraced house, as they knew they were not protected from the horrors of contagious disease and the boom and bust years of business. Role = a very simplistic why is she/he famous, Type = summary of disease type, sometimes does not make much sense, ? Both survived and that side of the family had the good genes so were lucky. The violence culminated in a brick being thrown into the familys home, wrapped in a note demanding they be sent back. EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER is a production of Nutopia for PBS. 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 had feared that Graves disease would waste years of my life, before modern treatments could bring it under control. Sewnsew the bit on Graves was very short so I dont want to build up your expectations. Video, 00:00:42Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. Then over the years I've had several ups and downs - never quite sure if it was my thyroid or my age creeping up. 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. TSH110 It sounds as if you've had a really rough ride. 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. He was proud of being a black Nigerian of Yoruba heritage and was perfectly happy being part of his mothers white working-class geordie tradition. ", War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history' Video, 00:01:59War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history', Up Next. 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. Thought: This list includes three presidents of the USA more than 6% of all of them, and all male. 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. Content on HealthUnlocked does not replace the relationship between you and doctors or other healthcare professionals nor the advice you receive from them. he said. 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. 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. 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 . 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 . EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER, a new four-part series from Nutopia that examines the science and medical innovations that conquered some of the worlds deadliest diseases and doubled life expectancies for many across the globe, will air Tuesdays, May 11-June 1 at 8:00 p.m. The other outrage is that the Commonwealth War Graves commission knew about this for years . Defence Secretary Ben Wallace apologises: "There can be no doubt prejudice played a part in some of the commission's decisions". Although a number of disorders may result in hyperthyroidism, Graves' disease is a common cause. Each episode will explore one aspect of public health that has played a central role in our battle to live longer. Knowledge of how to produce safe, effective drugs and distribute them quickly around the globe now underpins work to find treatments for COVID-19. I found so many very short lists or stories about one person and I would like to make a much, much bigger list. 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. 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. 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. 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. David Olusoga on Commonwealth War Graves Commission apology. Video, 00:01:18, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. Video, 00:01:18, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. But my history isnt a threat to your history. There are hundreds like it in Liverpool and many thousands more across the country. Presented by historian David Olusoga, the episode, which was a repeat, focused on a number of women attempting to overturn Victorian social norms. neurological problems. 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 still suffer with awful anxiety and heart pains but feel hugely better. Only a kangaroo court in a one-party state would pass judgment on the basis of such flimsy evidence. This is a man I know only from a cache of damning official documents and incredibly a surviving portrait in oil paint. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. 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I think about them when I read the letters, when I look at their photographs and their faces. The tragedy happened behind the doors of 62 Falkner Street, Get the best property news and bargains with our House&Home newsletter. 62 Falkner Street, the subject of the BBC documentary. ", 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.". "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?" 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At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. I live in Liverpool, so enjoyed that. He studied. 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. The consequence of the commission's failings is not only to do a great injustice to the black and Asian soldiers, sailors and airmen who fought alongside their white European comrades in two world wars, it is to misrepresent our history. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is tasked with commemorating those who died in the two world wars, has also apologised over its findings. 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. History is just history. Anyhow I'm currently pretty good and I've laughed at the image of a lively Italian greyhound pouncing all over you. Im really sorry that the stuff I do and that other people do is a challenge to that, but my job is to be a historian. The version of history I was taught at school was largely one of great men and great deeds, a history that took place in palaces and battlefields. 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. Video, 00:00:41Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Graves' disease is an immune system disorder that results in the overproduction of thyroid hormones (hyperthyroidism). 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 . The governments recent review on racial equality concluded controversially that there was no institutional racism in areas including policing, health and education, despite all the evidence to the contrary. My weight was 20 stone History of eating disorders and thyroid problems. The adverts were aimed at young men - not families or men who were attached. Did anyone read the symptoms on the death certificate? The series is particularly sensitive to the cultural blind spots that influenced our approach to health, tracing the origins of inoculation back to Africa, long before the discovery of vaccination in the west, and highlighting the often-overlooked inequalities in access to health. 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. Though of course I don't feel so alone on this website either! Episode Three:Data looks at how the emergence of fact-based research, data mapping and analysis has improved public health. David Olusoga Retweeted UplandsTV. Never delay seeking advice or dialling emergency services because of something that you have read on HealthUnlocked. Very moving and somehow making me feel not so alone with my thyroid condition. Unless of course with the many forms of hypothyroidism, some just do not sap your energy to that degree. 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. 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. Thrown into the familys home, wrapped in a note demanding they be sent back was 20 stone history living... 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