Nutopia is an award-winning television production company known for creating acclaimed, non-scripted series on a global scale. 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. 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. I remember telling a fellow dog walker I had always said hello to about my problems and she opened up to tell me about her awful time with graves when she was only in her late teens. 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) He remains committed to one goal: to uncover the stories of those who have long been deemed unimportant. 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. (He is also on the board of the Scott Trust, which owns Guardian Media Group.) PBSs broad array of programs has been consistently honored by the industrys most coveted award competitions. EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER is a multiplatform collaboration. 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. There are hundreds like it in Liverpool and many thousands more across the country. My history is part of your history.. David, who returns to our screens in the BBC series A House Through . Role = a very simplistic why is she/he famous, Type = summary of disease type, sometimes does not make much sense, ? 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. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. For her there were few options. Because to live in an old house is to share your most intimate space with the dead. U.S presidents! mstp i had atropic autoimmune thyroiditis but had bouts of hyperthyroidism which were terrifying and think I may have mild thyroid eye disease. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. He was 14. Mr Lammy added that work must be done to find their names in archives where that is possible, and to establish how local communities would like them to be commemorated. I'm hypo now but it was a grim time before my Graves was diagnosed so I really feel for the lady. 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. An inquiry by the commission was set up following a 2019 Channel 4 documentary, called Unremembered, which was presented by Mr Lammy. "The events of a century ago were wrong then and are wrong now," it said. 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. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. What was the role of British Empire soldiers in WW1? No one gave a damn about them. 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 . 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. The information has been collected from many internet sites. 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 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 treatment goals for Graves' disease are to stop the production of thyroid hormones and to block the effect of the hormones on the body. History is about people. 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. He said there were cases where the commission "deliberately overlooked evidence" that would have allowed it to find the names of the dead. 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. Teachers of children from pre-K through 12th grade turn to PBS for digital content and services that help bring classroom lessons to life. So he calls himself a Geordie. Video, 00:01:14, Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. Never delay seeking advice or dialling emergency services because of something that you have read on HealthUnlocked. David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA winning film-maker. 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. . 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. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is tasked with commemorating those who died in the two world wars, has also apologised over its findings. Although large, elegant and, in the early 21st century, extremely desirable, it is not unique. 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. I had feared that Graves disease would waste years of my life, before modern treatments could bring it under control. The time date was about the same we have only just sold the house and I was sorry but it had to go. I've got the opposite a furry, elderly border collie lying/sitting on my foot as we sit in front of the fire. 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.. neurological problems. 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. A freeze frame would probably show all the info from a download of the programme. After John's sudden death, Elizabeth was left alone on Falkner Street. One of the residents was a Jewish woman who died of Graves disease in 19 century prior to effective treatment. Decades of research confirms that PBSs premier childrens media service, PBS KIDS, helps children build critical literacy, math and social-emotional skills, enabling them to find success in school and life. Thanks TSH110. 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. Im perfectly comfortable in my identity. DO was greatly moved especially as he said he has suffered with Graves disease for 4 years and could relate to some of her pain. But there is a deeper issue at play. The summer afterwards, vans bearing the message Go home or face arrest were driven around London as part of Theresa Mays notorious hostile environment strategy, aiming to make the UK inhospitable for undocumented migrants. History doesnt exist to make us feel good, special, exceptional or magical. 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. But they are what draws us to the archives and set us off on early morning trips across overgrown cemeteries. She must have known that, sooner or later, the condition would kill her. "If you were taught a history that the first black person to put his foot on English soil was stepping off the Windrush in. 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. My weight was 20 stone History of eating disorders and thyroid problems. Ill give it another try, thanks for posting! 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. Saturday, September 18, 2021 He is asked, for instance, why he doesnt speak about the Barbary slave trade of the 16th to 18th centuries, in which Europeans were captured and traded by north African pirates. Labour MP David Lammy, who was critical to bringing the matter to light, called it a "watershed moment". 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. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. Melissa Porter ( hypothyroidism) claims that it was her illness that helped her to get the job of her dreams!!! I was right. I rather like slow ponderous programmes, Stephen Poliakoff plays being my ultimate fix which I expect you would find tedious beyond belief! They had terrible problems trying to destroy her thyroid with RAI and thought she could die, she suffered bad thryoid eye disease which might be why I opened up to her, suspecting she might have thyroid problems. She had no idea what was wrong with her, no one in her family had ever had it, she was tall but weighed about 5 stone and ate huge amounts of food and kids in the street would shout horrible abuse at her. "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?" Historians who dont get that tend to be the ones who struggle to get anyone to care about their work. "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 . 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. 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. Im also black British and that had no history, no recognition. Historians have to be nosy, they have to want to know what others experienced. 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. 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. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. Two people with the same disease. Lockdown hits nephew's 11,000-mile war grave trip. Nothing about this can be said to be truly revelatory. 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. David Olusoga: "It's another organisation that's had to be dragged into admitting its history.". What his more extreme critics fail to understand, he adds, is that he is loyal to history and not a political agent. But this movement for racial justice has been met with a severe backlash. 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. . Video, 00:01:00, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. An inquiry has found at least 116,000 mostly African and Middle Eastern casualties from World War One "were not commemorated by name or . 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. 62 Falkner Street, the subject of the BBC documentary. Another one to add to your list is historian David Olusoga. 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. It brings slavery to Britain and therefore undermines the idea that it doesnt really matter because it happened over there, says Olusoga. This adds to the evidence that thousands of black people were brought to Britain, enslaved as well as free. All the best to you both! Please share your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Some troops were commemorated collectively or their names were recorded in registers, while their white counterparts had headstones. 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. Though things were dubbed "rosy" at first, they eventually took an unexpected turn. But he has always had a third identity. History, to me, is all about those shiver-down-the-spine moments. 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. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. 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. His early experience of education was also distressing. The house selected is a Georgian-style terrace in what is now called the Georgian Quarter of Liverpool. [3] Early life and education [ edit] 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. Read about our approach to external linking. I struggle to think of a better phrase to describe this place. 'The commission profoundly failed to live up to . A woman who seemed to have it all was forced to rent out her home after her husband died from cholera. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Graves' disease is an immune system disorder that results in the overproduction of thyroid hormones (hyperthyroidism). To pass judgment on anyone living or dead on the basis of a handful of letters and ledger entries is palpably unfair and arguably ridiculous, and yet, in this case, almost impossible to resist. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. 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. 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. I write Georgian-style because it was built in 1840, the third year of Victorias reign. 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. Could explain a lot! I care deeply about people who were mistreated in the past David Olusoga in Bristol. Nothing about this can be said to be truly revelatory. Our homes, the most acutely personal places in our lives, come to us secondhand, and invisibly link us to people we have never met, people to whom we have no association other than a single shared connection to place. Im a woolyback originally but my scouse accent has dissipated away as I left Birkenhead when I was 18 - no work. Too close and a little too real for comfort. Im hoping the call of spring will gradually put me right again. [2] He has presented historical documentaries on the BBC and contributed to The One Show and The Guardian. Specific program information and updates for press are available at pbs.org/pressroom or by following PBS Pressroom on Twitter. Because to live in an old house is to share your most intimate space with the dead. He studied. No other city has been more buffeted by the cycles of boom and bust and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the place that once proudly saw itself as the second city of empire suffered more than any other when that empire suddenly evaporated. Photograph: Olumedia/The Guardian. You have to have a real tenure in the country to play your ancestors. That moment, he says, was profoundly beautiful. 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. When the book was published in 2016, it ended on a hopeful note. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. Very moving and somehow making me feel not so alone with my thyroid condition. I owe her hugely. 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". I experienced racism from teachers in ways that are shocking if I tell them to young people at school now, says Olusoga. Read about our approach to external linking. Another one to add to your list is historian David Olusoga. 2023 BBC. The other outrage is that the Commonwealth War Graves commission knew about this for years . ? indicates questionable. 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. Video, 00:01:00View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. His scholarship has been widely recognised: in 2019, he was awarded an OBE and made a professor at the University of Manchester. Video, 00:01:18Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, One-minute World News. 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. Never delay seeking advice or dialling emergency services because of something that you have read on HealthUnlocked. ET on PBS, and stream via pbs.org and the PBS Video app. For Olusoga, 51, this hostility can in part be explained by ignorance. Houses live longer than people and the harsh fact is that we are just passing through. As a historian and broadcaster, Olusoga has been battling this misconception for almost two decades, as the producer or presenter of TV series including Civilisations, The Worlds War, A House Through Time and the Bafta-winning Britains Forgotten Slave Owners. To view profiles and participate in discussions please. By way of an excuse, and by chance, I spent four years living with the same disease. 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 skill we have to do that. 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. Eventually, the family had to be rehoused. 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. 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. A close encounter between historian and subject. 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? 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. Watch for yourself. Video, 00:00:42Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. My Father and his sister had scarlet fever and they were both in isolation. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. Presented by historian David Olusoga, the episode, which was a repeat, focused on a number of women attempting to overturn Victorian social norms. Video, 00:01:18, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. 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. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. It is at home, with our partners, parents and children, that we are genuinely ourselves. Video, 00:01:00At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. Content on HealthUnlocked does not replace the relationship between you and doctors or other healthcare professionals nor the advice you receive from them. Ive looked at this history because its just exciting to be part of a long story. History is just history. Recently, historians have uncovered notices of runaway enslaved people or advertisements for their sale. I was sure he had a scar on his neck and must have had a thyroidectomy. Must have known that, sooner or later, the third year of Victorias.. 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