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Professor Sue Black and her team use forensic science to shed light on the past

History series in which Professor Sue Black and her team use forensic science to analyse the skeletons of everyday people from across the ages in staggering detail to shed light on our forebears

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History Cold Case: Series 2

Sue Black

Xanthe Mallett

Caroline Wilkinson

Natalie Humphreys

John Lonsdale

History Cold Case: Series 2: Episode 2: The York 113

The York 113

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Episode 2: The York 113

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BBC Two - History Cold Case, Series 2, The York 113

The team spots an incredibly rare genetic peculiarity in two skeletons.

Professor Sue Black and her team use forensic science to shed light on the past. They look at two skeletons discovered among 113 bodies in a mass grave outside York.

In 2008, construction workers just beyond York's city walls uncovered 113 bodies in a mass grave. The History Cold Case team spots an incredibly rare genetic peculiarity in two of the skeletons among the 113 and wonder whether they have stumbled on a pair of brothers, one of whom was severely disabled. 

The trail to find out who these two men could have been and how they ended up dead in a mass grave outside York opens up a new personalised vantage point on the events surrounding the English Civil War and also gives us a perspective on disability which can perhaps teach us something about so-called modern attitudes today.

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Professor Sue Black OBE and her team use forensic science to shed light on the past.

History series which sees skeletons of everyday people from across the ages analysed in staggering detail, opening new windows on the history of our forebears

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