We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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. ll old houses are haunted. Tonight's episode focused on the relationships of the people who lived at the property. Thats my job to care about them. Another one to add to your list is historian David Olusoga. 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. Give your doggie a fuss from me - they are such darlings, the affection crazy, limpet like hyperactive Italians can be a tad trying at times but they melt your heart with one loving gaze into your eyes and soul! 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. To view profiles and participate in discussions please. The house selected is a Georgian-style terrace in what is now called the Georgian Quarter of Liverpool. Ive looked at this history because its just exciting to be part of a long story. 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". 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. Video, 00:01:00View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. 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. 62 Falkner Street, the subject of the BBC documentary. 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! "Underpinning all these decisions, however, were the entrenched prejudices, preconceptions and pervasive racism of contemporary imperial attitudes," it added. 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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace apologises: "There can be no doubt prejudice played a part in some of the commission's decisions". The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is tasked with commemorating those who died in the two world wars, has also apologised over its findings. I think the chapter in Black and British about that is 30,000 words, which is as long as some books.. 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. It is not there as a place of greater safety.. This comes out of wanting to enrich life, not seeking some sort of needy validation of who I am.. They went on to have a family together - with Anne raising the daughters of Alfred and his mistress following the mistress' death. Watch for yourself. PBSs broad array of programs has been consistently honored by the industrys most coveted award competitions. Some treatments include: Radioactive iodine therapy With this therapy, you take radioactive iodine (radioiodine) by mouth. ", 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.". Not by ghosts but by the lives of others. Now he can expect more flak, thanks to the new edition of his book Black and British: A Forgotten History. A House Through Time BBC2 9pm Thursday is well worth watching. I suspect I have forgotten dozens of people who I know should be included, let alone the untold number I do not know about. Sorry I thought I had checked first hey ho the joys of thyroid. One of the residents was a Jewish woman who died of Graves disease in 19 century prior to effective treatment. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Recent projects include A World of Calm, based on the meditation and sleep app from the billion-dollar tech company Calm, Babies, exploring the key developmental years in life, and Emmy Award-nominated The World According to Jeff Goldblum. Nutopia also produced, the much-honored National Geographic series One Strange Rock; the BBC/PBS co-production Civilizations; interactive series The Great American Read; and Emmy Award-winning series How We Got to Now and America: The Story of the US. Upcoming projects include Limitless, with Chris Hemsworth, and Welcome to the Earth (working title) with Will Smith for Disney+, and Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer for PBS. 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. 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 . Video, 00:01:28The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. Im hoping the call of spring will gradually put me right again. Because to live in an old house is to share your most intimate space with the dead. An inquiry by the commission was set up following a 2019 Channel 4 documentary, called Unremembered, which was presented by Mr Lammy. 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. Black Londoners dressed up as their ancestors for the opening ceremony, with long, baggy suits, holding their suitcases, says Olusoga. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. My weight was 20 stone History of eating disorders and thyroid problems. Too close and a little too real for comfort. 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 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. All the best to you both! I watched it and found it very interesting. 2023 BBC. Across the four episodes of A House Through Time we uncover their stories, and that of the city in which they lived. 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. Video, 00:00:41Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Im also black British and that had no history, no recognition. 2023 BBC. Historians have to be nosy, they have to want to know what others experienced. 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. Video, 00:01:00One-minute World News, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. His scholarship has been widely recognised: in 2019, he was awarded an OBE and made a professor at the University of Manchester. 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. History doesnt exist to make us feel good, special, exceptional or magical. 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. 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. I watched it last week but found it a bit slow, so didnt watch this week. . We're being criticised for using the word apartheid to describe Voi Cemetery in Kenya. 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. Esther sadly died of Graves' disease aged just 44 and her former husband Edward left Liverpool for Denmark. The time date was about the same we have only just sold the house and I was sorry but it had to go. Six million soldiers from the British Empire served in WW1. 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. Historians who dont get that tend to be the ones who struggle to get anyone to care about their work. Despite having a difficult time in school Olusoga was diagnosed with dyslexia at age 14 there he developed a love of history from a favorite teacher and the television he watched. Part of that is achieved by being open to at least trying to feel something of what they felt. I have been equally surprised at my capacity to feel sympathy and empathy for the sufferings of people whom I only know from patchy documentary evidence. David Olusoga: "It's another organisation that's had to be dragged into admitting its history.". So he calls himself a Geordie. 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. When you hold in your hands an object created hundreds of years before your birth and feel the vague presence of the hands that held it in the past. 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