My weight was 20 stone History of eating disorders and thyroid problems. In southern Kenya, white soldiers lie beneath named memorials in a well-tended cemetery. 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". The information has been collected from many internet sites. Or having just walked up a staircase, holding the wooden banister that their hands once gripped. Never delay seeking advice or dialling emergency services because of something that you have read on HealthUnlocked. PBS, with more than 330 member stations, offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and digital content. 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. I enjoyed the first episode. They went on to have a family together - with Anne raising the daughters of Alfred and his mistress following the mistress' death. While the series features many leading public health authorities and scientists on the front lines of the current pandemic, EXTRA LIFE examines the bigger picture and sparks a global conversation about how weve learned to save lives. I had feared that Graves disease would waste years of my life, before modern treatments could bring it under control. 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. But there is a deeper issue at play. How are they able to get energy up?. He studied. Delivery charges may apply. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. The adverts were aimed at young men - not families or men who were attached. Video, 00:00:36Tears of relief after man found in Amazon jungle, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Melissa Porter ( hypothyroidism) claims that it was her illness that helped her to get the job of her dreams!!! A close encounter between historian and subject. Oh, I didn't know it was him doing it.Thanks for the reminder, I'll watch it on catch-up. Other family members have also got lymphoma of the thyroid but thankfully I was spared that! 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. Olusoga recalls his family being driven out of his childhood home by the National Front (no plaque) The visit of Kings Khama III, Sebele I and Bathoen I to England in 1895, leading to the foundation of Botswana (at the Botswanan Embassy in London) Charles Wotten, a victim of the 1919 Liverpool Race Riots (at Queen's Dock, Port of Liverpool) 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. Elizabeth Bowes' tragic story was featured in the BBCs documentary A House Through Time, which tells the history of the city from 1840 to the present from the perspectives of those who lived in a single house in the city's Georgian Quarter. History is about people. Role = a very simplistic why is she/he famous, Type = summary of disease type, sometimes does not make much sense, ? By way of an excuse, and by chance, I spent four years living with the same disease. Video, 00:01:00, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. "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?" I have been thinking about this recently because I spent last autumn engaged in a unique television experiment. 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. We're being criticised for using the word apartheid to describe Voi Cemetery in Kenya. Video, 00:00:42, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race. To support the Guardian, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. He gives another example: I have been accused literally hundreds of times of ignoring the slavery suppression squadron that the Royal Navy created after 1807. Its task was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of west Africa. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is tasked with commemorating those who died in the two world wars, has also apologised over its findings. I recently read his book Black & British, The Forgotten History. DO was greatly moved especially as he said he has suffered with Graves disease for 4 years and could relate to some of her pain. Yes me too. I'm hypo now but it was a grim time before my Graves was diagnosed so I really feel for the lady. 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. My Father and his sister had scarlet fever and they were both in isolation. 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". By way of an excuse, and by chance, I spent four years living with the same disease. 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. The lives of all of the people whose stories make up the links in that chain run through the house, because, for each of them, walking through that front door meant that they were home. It is at home, with our partners, parents and children, that we are genuinely ourselves. Although a number of disorders may result in hyperthyroidism, Graves' disease is a common cause. It was presented as impossible a dualism that couldnt exist, because whiteness and Britishness were the same thing when I was growing up. As part of the commission's work to search for unnamed war dead and those who are potentially not commemorated, it will also look at those who died in World War Two, although it is not thought that inequalities seen in WW1 were as widespread then. The summer afterwards, vans bearing the message Go home or face arrest were driven around London as part of Theresa Mays notorious hostile environment strategy, aiming to make the UK inhospitable for undocumented migrants. Though of course I don't feel so alone on this website either! 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My Grandmother lived in the house she was born in. Saturday, September 18, 2021 Graves would be a most dreadful way to die and I often shudder to think of the millions who died from thyroid disorders before any treatment was available. In the 1880s, Elizabeth Bowes had moved out of Falkner Street and it became the number we know it as today - 62. Tonight's episode focused on the relationships of the people who lived at the property. Though things were dubbed "rosy" at first, they eventually took an unexpected turn. 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. I have found myself marvelling at my capacity to feel genuine dislike for men who died over a century before my birth. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Video, 00:00:41, Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. 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! *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. More than any other British city, Liverpools ride on the rollercoaster of national fortune has been a bumpy one. An inquiry has found at least 116,000 mostly African and Middle Eastern casualties from World War One "were not commemorated by name or . 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. David Olusoga on Commonwealth War Graves Commission apology. I started off with Graves. He also studied at the University of Liverpool and so benefits from slavery as much as anyone else. History, to me, is all about those shiver-down-the-spine moments. It is not there as a place of greater safety.. 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. This adds to the evidence that thousands of black people were brought to Britain, enslaved as well as free. As for black peoples experiences in Britain, he says, there is a hysterical level of anger if you point out that many have lived in some form of slavery or unfreedom. Read about our approach to external linking. 'The commission profoundly failed to live up to . Recently, historians have uncovered notices of runaway enslaved people or advertisements for their sale. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. But he has always had a third identity. 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.. I owe her hugely. Video, 00:01:28The 'smart suit' that is changing children's lives, View from the cockpit of a Ukraine combat helicopter. But they are what draws us to the archives and set us off on early morning trips across overgrown cemeteries. disease, mass transportation, crime and class. By David Dabydeen (Photo By Alamy) Nineteen eighty-four was a transformative year for David Olusoga. 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, 00:01:51Lockdown 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. Gaynor Evans has lived at 62 Falkner Street with her two children for nearly eight years. 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. For her there were few options. Labour MP David Lammy, who was critical to bringing the matter to light, called it a "watershed moment". Thyroid Dysfunction and Sleep Disorders Please share your story by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Part of that is achieved by being open to at least trying to feel something of what they felt. One of the residents was a Jewish woman who died of Graves disease in 19 century prior to effective treatment. As a historian and broadcaster, Olusoga has been battling this misconception for almost two decades, as the producer or presenter of TV series including Civilisations, The Worlds War, A House Through Time and the Bafta-winning Britains Forgotten Slave Owners. I still suffer with awful anxiety and heart pains but feel hugely better. Thanks TSH110. 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. Presented by historian David Olusoga, the episode, which was a repeat, focused on a number of women attempting to overturn Victorian social norms. A House Through Time begins on BBC2 on 4 January, Studying the past of one terraced Liverpool home for BBC2s A House Through Time has brought Britains real history to life, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. It short-circuits an idea of British exceptionalism. Two people with the same disease. 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