This fascinating new series reopens historical cold cases with intriguing mysteries to solve. Remarkable stories of everyday people are painstakingly reconstructed, along with their faces, which haven t been seen for centuries. Skeletons unearthed in a range of circumstances get the History Cold Case treatment , such as a bizarre mummy, found by accident in the cellar of a Victorian house. Each forensic case opens a different window on the history of our forebears and takes us deep into gripping personal tales buried deep in British recorded history that we ve never heard before.