This event has finished Took place on: Friday, 27th Sep 2019
Join Lara Maiklem and her mudlarking friends for an evening of Thames tales and time travel, as they share with you their adventures and foreshore finds.
Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour.
Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys. These objects tell her about London and its lost ways of life.
Moving from the river's tidal origins in the west of the city to the point where it meets the sea in the east, Lara’s new book Mudlarking is a search for urban solitude and history on the River Thames, what Lara calls 'the longest archaeological site in the world'.
Lara Maiklem moved from her family’s farm to London in the 1990s and has been mudlarking along the River Thames for over fifteen years. Known as the ‘London Mudlark’, she has a combined social media audience of over 83,000 followers and has been featured in the Guardian and on BBC News, BBC World Service and BBC Radio 3. She now lives with her family on the Kent coast within easy reach of the river, which she visits as regularly as the tides permit. Mudlarking is her first book, published by Bloomsbury.
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2019-09-27 2019-09-27 Europe/London Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames Join Lara Maiklem and her mudlarking friends for an evening of Thames tales and time travel, as they share with you their adventures and foreshore finds. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2019/09/27/mudlarking-lost-and-found-on-the-river-thames-208658 Bargehouse,Oxo Tower Wharf,Bargehouse Street,LondonLocation
Bargehouse,
Bargehouse Street,
London,
SE1 9PH
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