Afterwards, I think we did that thing you do when youve been through something together as a family we stopped talking about it, because it was over, wed got through it.. DISC ONE: Zombie by Fela Kuti DISC TWO: Roll on Buddy by Aunt Molly JacksonDISC THREE: Black Mountain Blues by Bessie SmithDISC FOUR: Just The Other Day by Dr AlimantadoDISC FIVE: Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground by Blind Willie JohnsonDISC SIX: Last Kind Words by Geeshie WileyDISC SEVEN: You Can't Blame The Youth (Live At The Record Plant '73) by Bob Marley & The WailersDISC EIGHT: Precious Lord, Take My Hand / Youve Got a Friend by Aretha Franklin, BOOK CHOICE: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An Age Like This, 1920-40LUXURY ITEM: Acoustic guitar CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson, Presenter Lauren LaverneProducer Paula McGinley, See all episodes from Desert Island Discs, You Can't Blame The Youth (Live At The Record Plant '73), Precious Lord, Take My Hand / You've Got a Friend. (2018), Cowan K, Potter J, Olusoga Y, Bannister C, Bishop J, Cannon M & Signorelli V (2021), Online, distance learning and CPD courses, Subject taster sessions forY12 and Y13 students, Research centres, institutes and networks, Conferences, events, visitor accommodation and weddings, Support for refugee students and scholars, 'Childhoods and Play: The Iona and Peter Opie Archive', 'A National Observatory of Childrens Play Experiences During COVID-19', Childrens digital play during the COVID-19 pandemic : insights from the play observatory, Younger infants in the elementary school : discursively constructing the under-fives in institutional spaces and practices, Social Constructions of Children and Childhood, Histories of Early Childhood Care and Education and of Primary Education, Childrens Creative and Digital Literacies. When, as a young man, I began to study history I came to see it as a way to understand the forces that had brought my parents together, shaping my own experiences. Past MacTaggart lecture. David Olusoga. David Olusoga grew up amid racism in Britain in the 70s and 80s. According to the Economist, a child under 10 who has a Caribbean parent is more than twice as likely as not to have a white parent. London police search a young man in Talbot Road, Notting Hill, in 1958. David Olusoga, a historian from Nigeria who lives in Britain, has produced several historical documentaries for the BBC. They were destructive and damaging but they were understandable. Olusoga, who presents the BBC documentary series A House Through Time, told presenter Lauren Laverne that racism was "just the background hum of life" when he was growing up. He said: Yinka, Kemi and I have had an enormous amount of fun working on this project together, both researching lesser-known figures as well as finding out more about landmark events. Cole Cook Biography||. Funded by Knowledge Exchange Support Fund, the University of Sheffield. David and Yinka, a lecturer in education at the University of Sheffield, give a unique take on Black history, using the popular Every Day of the Year format to bring this to life in an accessible and immediate way. She appeared in the Olympic stadium as one among a series of symbolic representations of the pivotal events in British history: the Industrial Revolution, the First World War, the campaigns of the suffragettes, the Jarrow march of 1936 and the creation of the NHS in 1948, the year the Windrush docked at Tilbury. Amanda Moye Brown: Do you want to know about Wes Browns Wife? It's so special to see your ancestor's handwriting #1921Census https://t.co/6wbOGTGi7G. Other people, living in overcrowded homes, condemning the lack of available housing and mocking the great wartime promise to transform Britain into a 'land fit for heroes'. On Wednesday 8 February, we welcome guest speaker and RSA Fellow David Olusoga OBE, Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. 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I was given the opportunity to see the work that the Findmypast team has done, on behalf of The National Archives, preserving the Census documents for the future. The next Census wont be released until 2052! The idea that you can have a domestic history apart from it doesnt make sense. Dr Yinka Olusoga BA (Hons), PGCE, SFHEA, PhD School of Education Programme Director of the BA Education, Culture and Childhood e.olusoga@sheffield.ac.uk +44 114 222 8183 Edgar Allen House Full contact details Profile Dr Yinka Olusoga is a Lecturer in Education and Course Director of the BA in Education, Culture and Childhood. The migrants from West Africa were mostly Nigerians and Ghanaians and tended to be a little wealthier than the West Indians who had come before them, but were certainly not wealthy by global standards. She had the potential to earn well from her work. But, as the 2011 census revealed, between 2001 and 2011, the British African population doubled, through both migration and natural increase. In the most current New Years Honors List, he received an OBE as well. There has been too much integration. One of the worst moments of my unhappy schooling was when, during the run-up to a 1970s Christmas, we were allowed to bring in our favourite toys. 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