BBC - HISTORY COLD CASE -Series 1

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

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

Episode guide -

Crossbones Girl
4/4 A skeleton unearthed in London is found to be covered with disfiguring scars.

FIRST BROADCAST: 27 May 2010

Stirling Man
3/4 The team open up the case of a mysterious skeleton discovered in Stirling Castle.

FIRST BROADCAST: 20 May 2010

Mummified Child
2/4 The subject is the bizarre mummified body of a 19th-century child.

FIRST BROADCAST: 13 May 2010

Ipswich Man
1/4 An apparently African skeleton is unearthed near a medieval monastery.

FIRST BROADCAST: 06 May 2010