Gaynor Evans has lived at 62 Falkner Street with her two children for nearly eight years. "If you were taught a history that the first black person to put his foot on English soil was stepping off the Windrush in. Because to live in an old house is to share your most intimate space with the dead. All the best to you both! 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. David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA winning film-maker. 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. Presenter David branded Anne "courageous and a pioneer of the divorce courts". Something went wrong, please try again later. Each episode will explore one aspect of public health that has played a central role in our battle to live longer. Yet apologists for empire, in particular, like to dismiss him as a woke historian in an attempt to politicise his work or flatly deny the realities that he points out. It is at home, with our partners, parents and children, that we are genuinely ourselves. Esther sadly died of Graves' disease aged . His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. Video, 00:01:14, Trumpeter heads to rooftop to remember dead, Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle. Bill Gardner is the Executive in Charge for PBS.Funding for EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the New Venture Fund and PBS. 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? The violence culminated in a brick being thrown into the familys home, wrapped in a note demanding they be sent back. Thats my job to care about them. Or having just walked up a staircase, holding the wooden banister that their hands once gripped. It is not there as a place of greater safety.. Role = a very simplistic why is she/he famous, Type = summary of disease type, sometimes does not make much sense, ? More than any other British city, Liverpools ride on the rollercoaster of national fortune has been a bumpy one. He was 14. EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER is a production of Nutopia for PBS. 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. The thought usually comes late at night or early in the morning, when our eye is caught by what estate agents like to call an original feature, or a patch of peeling wallpaper or flaking paint reveals what lies beneath. And I felt quite misunderstood by my then GP and work colleagues. To support the Guardian, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. 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. 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. Video, 00:01:00, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. It brings slavery to Britain and therefore undermines the idea that it doesnt really matter because it happened over there, says Olusoga. Written by TSH110 To view profiles and participate in discussions please or . I still suffer with awful anxiety and heart pains but feel hugely better. Oh, I didn't know it was him doing it.Thanks for the reminder, I'll watch it on catch-up. He was born in Nigeria but arrived in the UK and grew up in Newcastle. I watched it and found it very interesting. It was a gruesome experience but I appreciate how lucky I am to be living in modern times cheating my true destiny with medication and getting some pretty good extra years - a real bonus! Too close and a little too real for comfort. I owe her hugely. 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. I have been thinking about this recently because I spent last autumn engaged in a unique television experiment. I lived, she died because we were born in different centuries. A House Through Time BBC2 9pm Thursday is well worth watching. 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 . 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. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. Each month, PBS reaches over 120 million people through television and 26 million people online, inviting them to experience the worlds of science, history, nature and public affairs; to hear diverse viewpoints; and to take front row seats to world-class drama and performances. 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. 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 said it was a travesty that men who served the British Empire were not commemorated properly, but welcomed the report. 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 . This comes out of wanting to enrich life, not seeking some sort of needy validation of who I am.. 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.. 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 . 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 Britain's role in the slave trade and the scramble for Africa.It is a story that some of Olusoga's critics would prefer . I lived, she died because we were born in different centuries. Knowledge of how to produce safe, effective drugs and distribute them quickly around the globe now underpins work to find treatments for COVID-19. They went on to have a family together - with Anne raising the daughters of Alfred and his mistress following the mistress' death. I rather like slow ponderous programmes, Stephen Poliakoff plays being my ultimate fix which I expect you would find tedious beyond belief! Next door in a scruffy field is where their African comrades are buried - no names, just a general memorial. 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. At a meeting in London, it was said that the governor, F G Guggisberg, said: "The average native of the Gold Coast would not understand or appreciate a headstone. Delivery charges may apply. . Houses live longer than people and the harsh fact is that we are just passing through. 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. Endocrinology 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. 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