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. 2. Another one to add to your list is historian David Olusoga. 2023 BBC. I write Georgian-style because it was built in 1840, the third year of Victorias reign. I live in Liverpool, so enjoyed that. It is at home, with our partners, parents and children, that we are genuinely ourselves. Did anyone read the symptoms on the death certificate? The time date was about the same we have only just sold the house and I was sorry but it had to go. They went on to have a family together - with Anne raising the daughters of Alfred and his mistress following the mistress' death. Eventually, the family had to be rehoused. "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?" 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. vans bearing the message Go home or face arrest were driven around London, protesters in more than 260 British towns and cities took part in BLM protests, A statue of the slave trader Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol. I have found myself marvelling at my capacity to feel genuine dislike for men who died over a century before my birth. He found it refreshing to see the UKs history of empire and colonialism acknowledged in last summers anti-racist placards, with one popular slogan stating The UK is not innocent. neurological problems. 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. I quite agree on the NHS, plus it has enabled a wealth of statistics to be kept and research done involving the populace that must have been impossible before its institution with individual practices working in isolation. Set in the context of todays COVID-19 crisis, this series explores the lessons learned from previous global pandemicsincluding smallpox, cholera, the Spanish flu and othersand reveals how scientists, doctors, self-experimenters and activists launched a public health revolution, saving millions of lives, fundamentally changing how we think about illness and ultimately paving the way for modern medicine. TSH110 It sounds as if you've had a really rough ride. Each episode will explore one aspect of public health that has played a central role in our battle to live longer. 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. 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. David believed Esther to be "extraordinary" and a person who was incredibly open to new ideas. . Then over the years I've had several ups and downs - never quite sure if it was my thyroid or my age creeping up. The violence culminated in a brick being thrown into the familys home, wrapped in a note demanding they be sent back. After John's sudden death, Elizabeth was left alone on Falkner Street. 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". Gaynor Evans has lived at 62 Falkner Street with her two children for nearly eight years. Video, 00:01:28The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. Its director general, Claire Horton, said: "We recognise the wrongs of the past and are deeply sorry and will be acting immediately to correct them.". I lived, she died because we were born in different centuries. Because to live in an old house is to share your most intimate space with the dead. Im also black British and that had no history, no recognition. I struggle to think of a better phrase to describe this place. I dont feel challenged in my right to be proud to be British, he says. The house selected is a Georgian-style terrace in what is now called the Georgian Quarter of Liverpool. We all know that until the 20th century billions died of diseases for which cures now exist. It is not meant to be anything more you can go off and find much more information about the people elsewhere. 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. 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. Melissa Porter ( hypothyroidism) claims that it was her illness that helped her to get the job of her dreams!!! 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 think about them when I read the letters, when I look at their photographs and their faces. grannydoug interesting what you say, I used to feel so alone with my thyroid disorder when I was still very poorly but under the care of an endocrinologist and being optimised. ", War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history' Video, 00:01:59War Graves Commission 'dragged into admitting its history', Up Next. This adds to the evidence that thousands of black people were brought to Britain, enslaved as well as free. Video, 00:01:18, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. I too live in Liverpool and am finding the programme to be really interesting, especially DO's references to Graves. 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. Could explain a lot! Thyroid Dysfunction and Sleep Disorders Please include your name, age and location with any submission. People are in alphabetic order of their names (not surname). Im perfectly comfortable in my identity. Photograph: Olumedia/The Guardian. 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. 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. I also feel for those who do not regain full health even on medication - that is a cruel outcome. We all know that until the 20th century billions died of diseases for which cures now exist. This is a simple list of well-known people who suffer (or have suffered) from thyroid disorders. Labour MP David Lammy, who was critical to bringing the matter to light, called it a "watershed moment". search in the historical record for inequalities in commemoration and act on what is found, renew its commitment to equality in commemoration by building physical or digital commemorative structures, use its online presence and wider education activities to reach out to all the communities of the former British Empire touched by the two world wars to make sure their hidden history is brought to life, and, over the next six months, assemble a global and diverse community of experts to help make this happen, World War One was the first truly global war, fought not just in the trenches of France but in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Britain's colonies sent millions of men to fight for the empire during the conflict, India, which at that time included Pakistan and Bangladesh, sent the most soldiers - more than 1.4 million, The British Army in East Africa was mainly composed of African soldiers by November 1918, according to the Imperial War Museum, At least 180,000 Africans served in the Carrier Corps in East Africa and provided logistic support to troops at the front, Around 15,000 people from the West Indies enlisted in WW1, including 10,000 from Jamaica, according to the National Army Museum, Colonies as far away as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) also sent a similar number between them, Britain had soldiers from six different continents: Europe, North America, South America, Australasia, Asia and Africa. Video, 00:00:41, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. 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). For Olusoga, 51, this hostility can in part be explained by ignorance. Read about our approach to external linking. Read about our approach to external linking. I still love it there and hope one day I will live there again - so good for cycling too. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. 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. Esther sadly died of Graves' disease aged . 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. Elizabeth placed adverts in the local paper to rent out rooms in her home as she had no other means of earning money. Historians who dont get that tend to be the ones who struggle to get anyone to care about their work. Yes me too. Hostility to his work has grown since the Brexit vote, shooting up profoundly since last summer, he says, speaking over Zoom from his office in Bristol. Delivery charges may apply. 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! A generation has emerged that doesnt need history to perform that role of comfort that its parents and grandparents did, he says. How on earth does an athlete manage with hypothyroidism? The tragedy happened behind the doors of 62 Falkner Street, Get the best property news and bargains with our House&Home newsletter. 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. 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. 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. 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) My weight was 20 stone History of eating disorders and thyroid problems. Video, 00:01:18Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, One-minute World News. 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. 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. You have to have a real tenure in the country to play your ancestors. That moment, he says, was profoundly beautiful. 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. 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. 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. 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 I felt quite misunderstood by my then GP and work colleagues. 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. 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. 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. ET on PBS, and stream via pbs.org and the PBS Video app. David Olusoga Retweeted UplandsTV. Lockdown hits nephew's 11,000-mile war grave trip. Funny to think of the house not being in town as it's right in the centre. Video, 00:01:00View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. 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 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. Ive looked at this history because its just exciting to be part of a long story. Its not to make people feel good.. I have been surprised at my capacity to feel sympathy and empathy for people I only know from patchy evidence. Video, 00:00:42, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace apologises: "There can be no doubt prejudice played a part in some of the commission's decisions". Video, 00:01:00One-minute World News, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. History is just history. 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. In 1883, couple Alfred and Anne Robinson, Liverpudlians "through and through" had taken residence in the well-known house. 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. 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? 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. Unless of course with the many forms of hypothyroidism, some just do not sap your energy to that degree. "The events of a century ago were wrong then and are wrong now," it said. "If you were taught a history that the first black person to put his foot on English soil was stepping off the Windrush in. An inquiry by the commission was set up following a 2019 Channel 4 documentary, called Unremembered, which was presented by Mr Lammy. 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. I rather like slow ponderous programmes, Stephen Poliakoff plays being my ultimate fix which I expect you would find tedious beyond belief! 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. 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. Or having just walked up a staircase, holding the wooden banister that their hands once gripped. As one of a handful of mixed-race families on the council estate where they lived, they were regularly terrorised by the far right. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Video, 00:01:00, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. I had feared that Graves disease would waste years of my life, before modern treatments could bring it under control. This comes out of wanting to enrich life, not seeking some sort of needy validation of who I am.. Surprisingly, though Alfred did not contest Anne's claims, the divorce did not go ahead and the proceedings were discontinued. 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. He was born in Nigeria but arrived in the UK and grew up in Newcastle. 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. Written by TSH110 To view profiles and participate in discussions please or . Eventually, the family had to be rehoused. 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 . He died of cholera, which was associated with those living in poverty - an unexpected death for a resident of such an upmarket area. Video, 00:01:00, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. DKC Public Relations:[email protected], Duncan Singh, Helen Sage, Tristan Quinn, David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg. . The real stuff of human life love, childhood, vulnerability, intimacy, betrayal, acceptance and pain is revealed behind closed doors and drawn curtains. The violence culminated in a brick being thrown into the familys home, wrapped in a note demanding they be sent back. But Edward got into financial trouble and reached an agreement with his creditors before the Great Depression lead to him taking more financial risks until being declared bankrupt in 1865. It is not there as a place of greater safety.. Very moving and somehow making me feel not so alone with my thyroid condition. 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