A new mudlarking exhibition featuring historical objects found in the River Thames is opening in London. London Museum Docklands will showcase Secrets Of The Thames: Mudlarking London’s Lost Treasures ...

Twice a day, the River Thames flows out towards the North Sea exposing miles of briny clay banks. During these windows of low tide, one of Britain’s largest archaeological site emerges and Londoners ...

Thomas Lucking is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher. Twice a day, every day, the tides of the River Thames rise and fall, revealing a foreshore that, in the middle of London, has been a focus of human ...

Exploring the Thames for hidden treasures, this video captures an exciting day of mudlarking and surprising discoveries along ...

THE SLUDGE is everywhere. A Roman coin is disguised as a bottle-top; a Tudor shoe is dressed like a wedge of wet-wipes. For Jason Sandy, sorting the trash from treasure is easy work. Scouring the ...

Mudlarking had long been a niche hobby. Then influencers discovered it. Twice a day, sections of the River Thames’s shores are exposed by the receding tide, allowing a growing number of mudlarks like ...

Mudlarking, once a trade of the Victorian poor, has evolved into a modern-day hobby that captivates everyday Londoners and history enthusiasts. What began as a desperate means of survival, scouring ...

Touching a link to the distant past is unexpectedly electrifying. An hour earlier, I would not have even noticed this piece of rubble on the riverbed. But at the start of Thames Explorer Trust’s In ...

I skirt the river Thames most days, usually in a packed train, though occasionally I stroll along its banks and admire the gleam of its water. But it is what lies beneath the river’s waves that is ...

England’s River Thames holds secrets, and some people are trying to uncover them. Mudlarking is a kind of scavenger hunt through the muck of the river. At low tide, mudlarks sift through the detritus ...

Lara Maiklem searches for treasures along the foreshore of the Thames. On the north side of the river Thames, between a pub and a railway bridge, there's a rickety staircase down to another world. Or ...