To support the Guardian, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. In 1883, couple Alfred and Anne Robinson, Liverpudlians "through and through" had taken residence in the well-known house. 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. Delivered through member stations, PBS KIDS offers high-quality educational content on TV including a 24/7 channel, online at pbskids.org, via an array of mobile apps and in communities across America. She must have known that, sooner or later, the condition would kill her. 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. 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. You have to have a real tenure in the country to play your ancestors. That moment, he says, was profoundly beautiful. Interesting! Gaynor Evans has lived at 62 Falkner Street with her two children for nearly eight years. I care about them. 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. No list from which practitioners of the art can be struck off for professional misconduct. 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". he said. This is a simple list of well-known people who suffer (or have suffered) from thyroid disorders. 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 . 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. Lots of them. ll old houses are haunted. Presenter David branded Anne "courageous and a pioneer of the divorce courts". 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. Historian David Olusoga visits Harewood House to explore the impact of slave ownership on British society including its social and economic consequence. David Olusoga Retweeted UplandsTV. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. As one of a handful of mixed-race families on the council estate where they lived, they were regularly terrorised by the far right. 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. Go home or face arrest a van in London in 2013, part of Theresa Mays hostile environment strategy. 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. But my history isnt a threat to your history. 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. Please share your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. Six million soldiers from the British Empire served in WW1. David Olusoga's look at a forgotten history shows there's always been black in the Union Jack Black and British: A Forgotten History addresses one of the greatest silences in British historiography. 62 Falkner Street, the subject of the BBC documentary. 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. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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! He was 14. Yet over the months my disdain for this ghost from the archives has grown, despite my attempts at professional detachment. 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. 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. Interesting list! 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 . I enjoyed the first episode. Video, 00:00:41, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. He is 49 years old. It was rare for divorce papers to be filed at that time and was an extraordinarily difficult thing to do, with proceedings only able to be heard at the forbidding Central Criminal Court in London. VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. 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. I lived, she died because we were born in different centuries. All the best to you both! The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is tasked with commemorating those who died in the two world wars, has also apologised over its findings. It is at home, with our partners, parents and children, that we are genuinely ourselves. 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. An inquiry has found at least 116,000 mostly African and Middle Eastern casualties from World War One "were not commemorated by name or . It has changed so much in the pool since I was a girl - for the better Id say. 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. The ups and downs you mention are strange indeed. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Endocrinology 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. Lockdown hits nephew's 11,000-mile war grave trip. 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. I have been surprised at my capacity to feel sympathy and empathy for people I only know from patchy evidence. 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 started off with Graves. 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. 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. Another one to add to your list is historian David Olusoga. I was right. He was 14. I was very sad when I was moving away and said my goodbyes to her, we both shed a tear and had a big hug. Watch for yourself. 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. 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. 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. Knowledge of how to produce safe, effective drugs and distribute them quickly around the globe now underpins work to find treatments for COVID-19. We're being criticised for using the word apartheid to describe Voi Cemetery in Kenya. What was the role of British Empire soldiers in WW1? "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 . The house selected is a Georgian-style terrace in what is now called the Georgian Quarter of Liverpool. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace apologised in the Commons after a report blamed "pervasive racism". I have had an under active thyroid for 25yrs, I take 150mg thyroxine daily. Olusoga was born in Lagos to a White mother and a Nigerian father - who, I hate to say nautrally, did a runner. TV historian David Olusoga has told of the racism he faced as a child - and how Gazza came to his rescue in primary school. 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. Sewnsew the bit on Graves was very short so I dont want to build up your expectations. Nothing about this can be said to be truly revelatory. Presented by historian David Olusoga, the episode, which was a repeat, focused on a number of women attempting to overturn Victorian social norms. Who is David Olusoga? I had feared that Graves disease would waste years of my life, before modern treatments could bring it under control. 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. He said there were cases where the commission "deliberately overlooked evidence" that would have allowed it to find the names of the dead. 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. Of being a black Nigerian of Yoruba heritage and was perfectly happy being part of his white... 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