It likely sparked fear for the wealthy residents of the impressive Georgian terraced house, as they knew they were not protected from the horrors of contagious disease and the boom and bust years of business. Im really frightened about the extent to which people are able to entirely dehumanise people who they deem to be their enemies in this culture war.. How are they able to get energy up?. Nothing about this can be said to be truly revelatory. Nutopia is an award-winning television production company known for creating acclaimed, non-scripted series on a global scale. 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. 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. 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. 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. Eventually, the family had to be rehoused. 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. Across the four episodes of A House Through Time we uncover their stories, and that of the city in which they lived. 6:05 to see if there are people out there with a history of eating disorders and thyroid problems? She must have known that, sooner or later, the condition would kill her. 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. The violence culminated in a brick being thrown into the familys home, wrapped in a note demanding they be sent back. Other family members have also got lymphoma of the thyroid but thankfully I was spared that! I'm hypo now but it was a grim time before my Graves was diagnosed so I really feel for the lady. 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. Video, 00:01:14Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. In 1883, couple Alfred and Anne Robinson, Liverpudlians "through and through" had taken residence in the well-known house. Video, 00:00:41Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. More than any other British city, Liverpools ride on the rollercoaster of national fortune has been a bumpy one. Thyroid hormones affect many body systems, so signs and symptoms of Graves' disease can be wide ranging. 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). The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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. Video, 00:01:28The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives, 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 possibly not commemorated at all" after they died fighting for the British Empire. Yet over the months my disdain for this ghost from the archives has grown, despite my attempts at professional detachment. Tonight's episode focused on the relationships of the people who lived at the property. You have to have a real tenure in the country to play your ancestors. That moment, he says, was profoundly beautiful. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. TV historian David Olusoga has told of the racism he faced as a child - and how Gazza came to his rescue in primary school. 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". But they are what draws us to the archives and set us off on early morning trips across overgrown cemeteries. 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. When the book was published in 2016, it ended on a hopeful note. 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 . An inquiry by the commission was set up following a 2019 Channel 4 documentary, called Unremembered, which was presented by Mr Lammy. Historian David Olusoga gave a blistering speech about the racism he faced in the British TV industry (Picture: BBC) David Olusoga delivered a hard-hitting speech about the racism he faced. 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. Some treatments include: Radioactive iodine therapy With this therapy, you take radioactive iodine (radioiodine) by mouth. It was silent about our shared, inner and domestic histories, the stories of the rest of us, the ungreat, who live quietly and privately in anonymous terraced houses. Im a woolyback originally but my scouse accent has dissipated away as I left Birkenhead when I was 18 - no work. The couple living at 62 Falkner Street in the late 1800s, which at the time was number 58, was John and Elizabeth Bowes. 'The commission profoundly failed to live up to . Another one to add to your list is historian David Olusoga. 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! An updated edition of Black and British: A Forgotten History, with a new chapter, is published on 10 June (Picador, 12.99). What his more extreme critics fail to understand, he adds, is that he is loyal to history and not a political agent. If walls could talk it would be our homes not our grand public buildings that would have all the best stories. 62 Falkner Street, the subject of the BBC documentary. 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. All old houses are haunted. 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. Doing this post was an an achievement with one of my Italian greyhounds deliberately trying to stop me typing, using body blocking, clawing and even sitting on top of the iPad, because he wants my full attention , I imagined seeing Graves' disease on it! 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. Thats my job to care about them. I still suffer with awful anxiety and heart pains but feel hugely better. TSH110 Many thanks for the link to The Guardian. I rather like slow ponderous programmes, Stephen Poliakoff plays being my ultimate fix which I expect you would find tedious beyond belief! 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 guide viewers across 300 years of medical innovation, and go behind the scenes of modern medicine to meet the unsung heroes who are tackling COVID-19 and other public health threats. Each episode will explore one aspect of public health that has played a central role in our battle to live longer. 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. 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. ET on PBS, and stream via pbs.org and the PBS Video app. It is not there as a place of greater safety.. Presenter David revealed residents weren't aware the disease was being transmitted through drinking water. This is a man I know only from a cache of damning official documents and incredibly a surviving portrait in oil paint. Interesting list! 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. A House Through Time is well worth watching. Lockdown hits nephew's 11,000-mile war grave trip. Luckily they did manage to get it under control but she clearly continued to suffer with the consequences both emotional and physical. 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. Never delay seeking advice or dialling emergency services because of something that you have read on HealthUnlocked. Part of the aim of A House is to answer the question that everyone who has ever lived in an old house has at some time or another asked themselves. Next door in a scruffy field is where their African comrades are buried - no names, just a general memorial. 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. Video, 00:01:14Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. Anyhow I'm currently pretty good and I've laughed at the image of a lively Italian greyhound pouncing all over you. 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. The New York Times Magazine will publish a special issue, featuring a lead article by Johnson, that will delve into the larger history of science, medicine and public health. I have been thinking about this recently because I spent last autumn engaged in a unique television experiment. Though things were dubbed "rosy" at first, they eventually took an unexpected turn. Part of that is achieved by being open to at least trying to feel something of what they felt. I am having a a bit of a down after 3 years feeling really well on NDT not sure why I seem to be having a blip. David Olusoga in Bristol. 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. My history is part of your history.. She fully comprehended all I was going through and my feelings of total isolation completely evaporated she really helped me come to terms with my illness and to appreciate how much more awful it can be for others mine was bad but as nothing compared to her terrible suffering also I had more idea of what was wrong because others in the family had suffered with thyroid disorders but as my mother and sister both had thyroid cancer and they were very slow to do any ultrasound on me to check me for it, that greatly added to how bad I felt with the additional and unnecessary worry. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. 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". 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. 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. Endocrinology 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. 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. Video, 00:00:42, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. David Olusoga: "It's another organisation that's had to be dragged into admitting its history.". And I felt quite misunderstood by my then GP and work colleagues. A freeze frame would probably show all the info from a download of the programme. Houses live longer than people and the harsh fact is that we are just passing through. Six million soldiers from the British Empire served in WW1. I was sure he had a scar on his neck and must have had a thyroidectomy. ll old houses are haunted. Video, 00:01:00, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. This is a simple list of well-known people who suffer (or have suffered) from thyroid disorders. Historians have to be nosy, they have to want to know what others experienced. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. 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. Yes me too. 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. istorys purpose isnt to comfort us, says. Sewnsew the bit on Graves was very short so I dont want to build up your expectations. 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. 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. 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. To view profiles and participate in discussions please. Read about our approach to external linking. By way of an excuse, and by chance, I spent four years living with the same disease. But that upbeat note has begun to feel inaccurate an artefact of a more optimistic time. But that figure could be as high as 350,000, it said. One of the residents was a Jewish woman who died of Graves disease in 19 century prior to effective treatment. People are in alphabetic order of their names (not surname). I also feel for those who do not regain full health even on medication - that is a cruel outcome. he said. 2023 BBC. PBSs broad array of programs has been consistently honored by the industrys most coveted award competitions. 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