Boris Johnson said he is "deeply troubled" by failures to properly commemorate black and Asian troops who died fighting for the British Empire during World War One. His exposure to Nigerian culture seems quite limited. My Grandmother lived in the house she was born in. 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. There are hundreds like it in Liverpool and many thousands more across the country. Interesting list! In the new edition of Black and British, which includes a chapter on the Windrush scandal and last years Black Lives Matter protests, Olusoga describes that moment in 2012 as a mirage. This may be worth watching channel 5 tonight at 9pm. Video, 00:01:00View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. 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'? The adverts were aimed at young men - not families or men who were attached. Video, 00:00:42Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. 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. I dont feel challenged in my right to be proud to be British a statue of Edward Colston in Bristol is toppled during Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. David Adetayo Olusoga OBE (born January 1970 [1]) is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, presenter and film-maker. *A House Through Time aired on BBC2 on Saturday evening at 6.15pm, The documentary also tells the story of Esther, an 'extraordinary woman' with a connection to the house. Mr Lammy added that work must be done to find their names in archives where that is possible, and to establish how local communities would like them to be commemorated. 11:08 - Source: CNN. 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An inquiry has found at least 116,000 mostly African and Middle Eastern casualties from World War One "were not commemorated by name or . Video, 00:00:42, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. Video, 00:00:41, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. 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. But that upbeat note has begun to feel inaccurate an artefact of a more optimistic time. 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". 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 care deeply about people who were mistreated in the past David Olusoga in Bristol. [2] He has presented historical documentaries on the BBC and contributed to The One Show and The Guardian. 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. David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA winning film-maker. I also feel for those who do not regain full health even on medication - that is a cruel outcome. Sewnsew the bit on Graves was very short so I dont want to build up your expectations. David Olusoga: As a child I never presumed the racism I experienced would ever stop We asked the historian and presenter, 50, what his younger self would make of his life, and how his. 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. 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. Video, 00:01:28, The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. My history is part of your history.. Video, 00:01:00One-minute World News, WATCH: Key moments from PM's NI Brexit deal speech. To support the Guardian, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. 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. It is not there as a place of greater safety.. 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. People are in alphabetic order of their names (not surname). How are they able to get energy up?. Im hoping the call of spring will gradually put me right again. 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. Nothing about this can be said to be truly revelatory. Unless of course with the many forms of hypothyroidism, some just do not sap your energy to that degree. Outside Europe, however, the commission enacted a policy of extreme discrimination, categorising the fallen as "white", "Indians" or what it called "natives". Watch for yourself. This is a man I know only from a cache of damning official documents and incredibly a surviving portrait in oil paint. Johnson is the best-selling author of 12 books, including The Ghost Map, one of the seminal books on epidemics. As one of a handful of mixed-race families on the council estate where they lived, they were regularly terrorised by the far right. An inquiry has found at least 116,000 mostly African and Middle Eastern casualties from World War One "were not commemorated by name or . 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In January, Robert Jenrick, the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, said he would introduce laws to protect statues from what he called baying mobs. Video, 00:01:28The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. 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. Two people with the same disease. Yet over the months my disdain for this ghost from the archives has grown, despite my attempts at professional detachment. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. Houses live longer than people and the harsh fact is that we are just passing through. "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. This adds to the evidence that thousands of black people were brought to Britain, enslaved as well as free. Johnson and Olusoga shed light on scientific breakthroughs and reveal how collective efforts around the world can lead to extraordinary outcomes, including doubling the human lifespan in under a century. 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! Thats my job to care about them. I write Georgian-style because it was built in 1840, the third year of Victorias reign. 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