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 activity for millennia. Making use of the limited ...

Nicola White explores the Thames foreshore, where small finds reveal everyday stories from the past. A mudlarking permit from ...

Anyone who’s ever done a bit of beachcombing knows the thrill of finding something hidden in the sand. But for mudlarks — a term that refers to people who hunt for rare objects along the shores of the ...

In the second week of February it was reported that a section of London’s River Thames had frozen. At least 23 times between 1309 and 1814, the Thames has frozen over. On five of these occasions ...

Now it’s a favorite digging spot for Brooker and his Mudlarks, amateur archaeologists licensed by the city who prowl the banks of the Thames searching for fragments of London’s history. The Mudlarks ...

Mudlark author Lara Maiklem scours the edge of London's River Thames looking for historical artifacts. Among her finds: Roman pottery, medieval jug handles and a 500-year-old child's shoe. This is ...