Tibor Fischer

What became of Thomas Becket’s bones?

Alice Roberts’s examinations of violent deaths in the past take her to the site of Becket’s murder in Canterbury cathedral and the later destruction of his shrine by Henry VIII

The murder of Thomas Becket, from the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. [Getty Images]

  • Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages

    Alice Roberts

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 352, £20

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