Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over 15 years, in pursuit of the objects 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, Mudlarking is a search for urban solitude and history on the River Thames, which Lara calls the longest archaeological site in England. As she has discovered, it is often the tiniest objects that tell the greatest stories. 

'Enchanting' - The Times
'Brilliant. No one has looked at these odd corners since Sherlock Holmes' - Sunday Telegraph