Although large, elegant and, in the early 21st century, extremely desirable, it is not unique. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. I enjoyed the first episode. 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. The other outrage is that the Commonwealth War Graves commission knew about this for years . 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. Watch for yourself. Video, 00:00:36, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. In the 1880s, Elizabeth Bowes had moved out of Falkner Street and it became the number we know it as today - 62. 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. But he has always had a third identity. First published in 2016, and made into a TV series the same year, the book charts black British history from the first meeting between the people of Britain and the people of Africa during the Roman period, to the racism Olusoga encountered during his own childhood, via Britains role in the slave trade and the scramble for Africa. A woman who seemed to have it all was forced to rent out her home after her husband died from cholera. Video, 00:01:51Lockdown hits nephew's 11,000-mile war grave trip, I look after the grave of a soldier Ive never met Video, 00:01:57I look after the grave of a soldier Ive never met, Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead. And he said there were examples of officials employing an "overarching imperial ideology connected to racial and religious differences" in order to "divide the dead and treat them unequally in ways that were impossible in Europe". The UK and US based company is credited with creating the television genre known as the mega-doc, combining epic, motion picture-quality cinematography, action-driven content and prominent Hollywood actors to produce and star in the projects. In 1883, couple Alfred and Anne Robinson, Liverpudlians "through and through" had taken residence in the well-known house. 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. 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. Outlining the next steps, Mr Wallace said the Commonwealth War Graves Commission will: Mr Wallace also announced a public consultation over plans to waive the visa fee for service personnel from the Commonwealth and Nepal who choose to settle in the UK in order to honour their contribution. My weight was 20 stone History of eating disorders and thyroid problems. No list from which practitioners of the art can be struck off for professional misconduct. Video, 00:00:42Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. 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. His early experience of education was also distressing. He was born in Nigeria but arrived in the UK and grew up in Newcastle. One person had undiagnosed Graves disease complicated by terrible find the cause of her problems and improve her health so that she can enjoy life with her three Phantoms of the Mind, Radio 4 is well worth a listen. You can also get in touch in the following ways: If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. PBS, with more than 330 member stations, offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and digital content. Though things were dubbed "rosy" at first, they eventually took an unexpected turn. Some troops were commemorated collectively or their names were recorded in registers, while their white counterparts had headstones. 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. The practice evolved out of the 19th century science of epidemiology and cholera mortality reports in the 1840s, where the now ubiquitous curve of an epidemicwas first documented. Go home or face arrest a van in London in 2013, part of Theresa Mays hostile environment strategy. 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. The extremes of Liverpools story are reflected in the lives of the occupants of 62 Falkner Street. They went on to have a family together - with Anne raising the daughters of Alfred and his mistress following the mistress' death. 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 have found myself marvelling at my capacity to feel genuine dislike for men who died over a century before my birth. And I felt quite misunderstood by my then GP and work colleagues. He remains committed to one goal: to uncover the stories of those who have long been deemed unimportant. I watched it last week but found it a bit slow, so didnt watch this week. I write Georgian-style because it was built in 1840, the third year of Victorias reign. 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Eventually, the family had to be rehoused. 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. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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. 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. 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. "I'm just really, really pleased that the dignity that these men deserved - who were dragged from their villages and commandeered to work for the British Empire - that dignity that they deserve in death can be granted to them," he said. Video, 00:00:41Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. 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. The tragedy happened behind the doors of 62 Falkner Street, Get the best property news and bargains with our House&Home newsletter. "Whilst we can't change the past, we can make amends and take action," he said. 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. For Olusoga, 51, this hostility can in part be explained by ignorance. 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 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. But that upbeat note has begun to feel inaccurate an artefact of a more optimistic time. If you have been told a version of your history and that is part of your identity, its very difficult when people like me come along and say: There are these chapters [that you need to know about]. People feel wrongly in my view that their history is being undermined by my history. 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. I declare a bit of a bias against some of the more air-headed end of Z-list slebs wondered why Lincoln didn't grow a moustache with his beard, eyebrows look ok tho'? 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"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?" 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. I care about them. It is a story that some of Olusogas critics would prefer was forgotten. History, to me, is all about those shiver-down-the-spine moments. He was 14. In 2020, protesters in more than 260 British towns and cities took part in BLM protests, thought to be the most widespread anti-racist movement since the abolition of the slave trade. 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. 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