Video, 00:00:41, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. mstp i had atropic autoimmune thyroiditis but had bouts of hyperthyroidism which were terrifying and think I may have mild thyroid eye disease. 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. Presented by historian David Olusoga, the episode, which was a repeat, focused on a number of women attempting to overturn Victorian social norms. Video, 00:01:00At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. Read about our approach to external linking. It is at home, with our partners, parents and children, that we are genuinely ourselves. "Whilst we can't change the past, we can make amends and take action," he said. Read about our approach to external linking. Across the four episodes of A House Through Time we uncover their stories, and that of the city in which they lived. The violence culminated in a brick being thrown into the familys home, wrapped in a note demanding they be sent back. 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. [3] Early life and education [ edit] But there is a deeper issue at play. Its not to make people feel good.. Elizabeth placed adverts in the local paper to rent out rooms in her home as she had no other means of earning money. 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". By way of an excuse, and by chance, I spent four years living with the same disease. It was presented as impossible a dualism that couldnt exist, because whiteness and Britishness were the same thing when I was growing up. A generation has emerged that doesnt need history to perform that role of comfort that its parents and grandparents did, he says. I had feared that Graves disease would waste years of my life, before modern treatments could bring it under control. Very interesting. Historians have to be nosy, they have to want to know what others experienced. 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A freeze frame would probably show all the info from a download of the programme. Content on HealthUnlocked does not replace the relationship between you and doctors or other healthcare professionals nor the advice you receive from them. 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. search in the historical record for inequalities in commemoration and act on what is found, renew its commitment to equality in commemoration by building physical or digital commemorative structures, use its online presence and wider education activities to reach out to all the communities of the former British Empire touched by the two world wars to make sure their hidden history is brought to life, and, over the next six months, assemble a global and diverse community of experts to help make this happen, World War One was the first truly global war, fought not just in the trenches of France but in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Britain's colonies sent millions of men to fight for the empire during the conflict, India, which at that time included Pakistan and Bangladesh, sent the most soldiers - more than 1.4 million, The British Army in East Africa was mainly composed of African soldiers by November 1918, according to the Imperial War Museum, At least 180,000 Africans served in the Carrier Corps in East Africa and provided logistic support to troops at the front, Around 15,000 people from the West Indies enlisted in WW1, including 10,000 from Jamaica, according to the National Army Museum, Colonies as far away as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) also sent a similar number between them, Britain had soldiers from six different continents: Europe, North America, South America, Australasia, Asia and Africa. The other outrage is that the Commonwealth War Graves commission knew about this for years . I have had an under active thyroid for 25yrs, I take 150mg thyroxine daily. My Grandmother lived in the house she was born in. Video, 00:01:00One-minute World News, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. I suspect I have forgotten dozens of people who I know should be included, let alone the untold number I do not know about. And I felt quite misunderstood by my then GP and work colleagues. But, after months of investigations, what the researchers who began this project discovered was that it was possible, in the case of 62 Falkner Street, to form a chain of human stories stretching from then to now, from the first resident to the current owner. His scholarship has been widely recognised: in 2019, he was awarded an OBE and made a professor at the University of Manchester. For Olusoga, 51, this hostility can in part be explained by ignorance. I experienced racism from teachers in ways that are shocking if I tell them to young people at school now, says Olusoga. 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. Did anyone read the symptoms on the death certificate? 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. Video, 00:00:42Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. 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. 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. I care about them. Ive recently found myself grateful for this omission because of all the historical projects I have worked on, none has made it so easy to cross lines, or so tempting to overstep marks. David Olusoga on Commonwealth War Graves Commission apology. My Father and his sister had scarlet fever and they were both in isolation. Video, 00:01:18, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. Surprisingly, though Alfred did not contest Anne's claims, the divorce did not go ahead and the proceedings were discontinued. Johnson is the best-selling author of 12 books, including The Ghost Map, one of the seminal books on epidemics. I'm hypo now but it was a grim time before my Graves was diagnosed so I really feel for the lady. 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. She must have known that, sooner or later, the condition would kill her. EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER to Premiere onMay 11, 2021 on PBS, Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Steven Johnson and David Olusoga Guide Viewers Through Three Centuries of Health Innovations. 2023 BBC. 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 . 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. He was 14. Lockdown hits nephew's 11,000-mile war grave trip. 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. He studied. 11:08 - Source: CNN. Both survived and that side of the family had the good genes so were lucky. 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. Video, 00:01:14, Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. 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. . The idea of equal treatment was controversial, but it became a cornerstone of remembrance. I've got the opposite a furry, elderly border collie lying/sitting on my foot as we sit in front of the fire. For her there were few options. 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. Eventually, the family had to be rehoused. He was dyslexic, but the school refused to get him tested until he did his GCSEs: It was the easier story to believe that this kid was stupid because all black kids are stupid. When he finally got his diagnosis and support thanks in large part to his mothers fierce determination Olusoga went to study history at the University of Liverpool, followed by a masters degree at Leicester. David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA winning film-maker. I have been thinking about this recently because I spent last autumn engaged in a unique television experiment. EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER is a multiplatform collaboration. The war graves commission was founded with a remit to remember every individual who had died in World War One, regardless of rank, class, religion or race. 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. 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. 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. I watched it last week but found it a bit slow, so didnt watch this week. An updated edition of Black and British: A Forgotten History, with a new chapter, is published on 10 June (Picador, 12.99). For Olusoga, 51, this hostility can in part be explained by ignorance. I am wondering who is treating her, it would be good to know that. Video, 00:00:41Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Though things were dubbed "rosy" at first, they eventually took an unexpected turn. It is a story that some of Olusogas critics would prefer was forgotten. 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. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. 'The commission profoundly failed to live up to . Im really frightened about the future of this country, and frightened about people using forces of race and racism for electoral reasons and not being cognisant about how difficult it is to control those forces after elections have been counted, says Olusoga. 2023 BBC. Something went wrong, please try again later. 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. The series explores how the pioneering approaches and innovative medical triumphs of the past provided a blueprint for our future in the battle to live longer. ? indicates questionable. Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. 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. Recently, historians have uncovered notices of runaway enslaved people or advertisements for their sale. 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". 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). 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