Did anyone read the symptoms on the death certificate? Olusoga was confident about having two identities, despite the prejudice he had encountered. But knowing the historical facts and the bleak statistics is very different to reading of Esther Lublins tragic life, our shared diagnosis, her name and age younger than I am now scrawled on to her death certificate by a busy doctor. 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. 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. And there are a lot of people for whom that idea of exceptionalism is a part of how they see themselves. Thyroid Dysfunction and Sleep Disorders Thought: This list includes three presidents of the USA more than 6% of all of them, and all male. Video, 00:01:18Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, One-minute World News. Outside Europe, however, the commission enacted a policy of extreme discrimination, categorising the fallen as "white", "Indians" or what it called "natives". Video, 00:00:36, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. 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". 2023 BBC. His book does its best to uncover that history, exploring the considerable presence of black people in Britain in the age of slavery, as well as the part played by black Britons in both world wars. Video, 00:01:00, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. 'The commission profoundly failed to live up to . As one of a handful of mixed-race families on the council estate where they lived, they were regularly terrorised by the far right. 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. There is no official register of historians. 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. The information has been collected from many internet sites. Video, 00:01:20, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech, EU Chief on NI deal: 'We were honest with each other' Video, 00:00:36, EU Chief on NI deal: 'We were honest with each other', The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives. Lots of them. Video, 00:01:00One-minute World News, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. disease, mass transportation, crime and class. I had feared that Graves disease would waste years of my life, before modern treatments could bring it under control. "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. An updated edition of Black and British: A Forgotten History, with a new chapter, is published on 10 June (Picador, 12.99). "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. Across the four episodes of A House Through Time we uncover their stories, and that of the city in which they lived. 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. Video, 00:01:28, The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. 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. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. 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. Presented by historian David Olusoga, the episode, which was a repeat, focused on a number of women attempting to overturn Victorian social norms. 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? Video, 00:01:14, Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. Video, 00:00:42, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. 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. ? indicates questionable. Something went wrong, please try again later. 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! He was 14. 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 . David believed Esther to be "extraordinary" and a person who was incredibly open to new ideas. 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. It is not there as a place of greater safety.. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. 11:08 - Source: CNN. But there is a deeper issue at play. They went on to have a family together - with Anne raising the daughters of Alfred and his mistress following the mistress' death. Video, 00:01:18, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. 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. He is 49 years old. Video, 00:01:14Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. 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. It brings slavery to Britain and therefore undermines the idea that it doesnt really matter because it happened over there, says Olusoga. EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER is a multiplatform collaboration. Episode Four:Behaviorexamines the importance of public engagement during a health crisis, from the discovery that the simple act of handwashing could save lives in a 19th century Viennese maternity hospital, to facemasks and lockdowns used to combat the Spanish flu 100 years ago, along with what we are experiencing today. Some treatments include: Radioactive iodine therapy With this therapy, you take radioactive iodine (radioiodine) by mouth. 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. 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 also studied at the University of Liverpool and so benefits from slavery as much as anyone else. Elizabeth Bowes' tragic story was featured in the BBCs documentary A House Through Time, which tells the history of the city from 1840 to the present from the perspectives of those who lived in a single house in the city's Georgian Quarter. 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 company, which was founded in 2008 by Jane Root, former President of Discovery Channel US and Controller of BBC2, and co-founder of Wall to Wall TV, has become synonymous with creating high-quality, notable content for buyers that include Netflix, Disney+, CNN, National Geographic, BBC, PBS, HBO Max and A+E Networks. I experienced racism from teachers in ways that are shocking if I tell them to young people at school now, says Olusoga. Very moving and somehow making me feel not so alone with my thyroid condition. A generation has emerged that doesnt need history to perform that role of comfort that its parents and grandparents did, he says. 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 care deeply about people who were mistreated in the past. Only a kangaroo court in a one-party state would pass judgment on the basis of such flimsy evidence. U.S presidents! Presenter David branded Anne "courageous and a pioneer of the divorce courts". Who is David Olusoga? Then over the years I've had several ups and downs - never quite sure if it was my thyroid or my age creeping up. 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. 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. I still love it there and hope one day I will live there again - so good for cycling too. Esther sadly died of Graves' disease aged . I found so many very short lists or stories about one person and I would like to make a much, much bigger list. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. For Olusoga, 51, this hostility can in part be explained by ignorance. 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