Published today in Current Biology, and summarised in The Independent, this article concludes that seventeen skeletons which were discovered in a well in Norwich in 2004 are the remains of medieval Jewish inhabitants. Drawing on DNA techniques which were not available to the original investigators (for the original investigation see the BBC documentary below), the authors claim to be able to demonstrate that these are, indeed, the remains of the Jewish inhabitants of the town who they suggest were murdered in February 1190 during the anti-Jewish attacks which swept England after Richard I’s coronation on 3 September 1189.