The York 113
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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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Participant | Sue Black |
| Participant | Xanthe Mallett |
| Participant | Caroline Wilkinson |
| Participant | Caroline Wilkinson |
| Participant | Caroline Wilkinson |
| Executive Producer | Natalie Humphreys |
| Series Producer | John Lonsdale |
| Series Producer | John Lonsdale |
| Series Producer | John Lonsdale |
