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Above Skeletal remains can reveal much about the health and environment of an individual and their community. Here, a medieval skeleton is shown under excavation at Magdalen College, Oxford.

The Past

Grave secrets: the children of the Reformation

What was it like to be a child growing up within the turbulence and destruction of Reformation England? Drawing on his research of over 4,500 skeletons, Bennjamin Penny-Mason reveals an untold story.