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A page from the Chloe Dewe Mathews's Thames Log © Chloe Dewe Mathews Over the past year, the River Thames has been a source of solace for many Londoners. This ever-changing waterway snakes through the centre of the city, dividing it into north and south while dramatically shapeshifting with a tidal ebb and flow that pays no heed to human dramas. Now, 12 months since London’s first lockdown, the Thames is the inspiration for a number of new projects that celebrate the power of this mighty river and its ability to fuel imaginations, transform its surroundings and provide ...

Wandering Eye:A Look Below the Surface Editorial Staff Photograph © Bodleian Libraries. The Dig explores the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial ground in England. It’s a beautiful story that focuses on the relationship between the widow owner of the property, and the archaeologist she hired to excavate the treasures, but the film does not delve much into the objects contained. While the significance of the find is clear, it leaves us wanting to know more. Here’s a start. ( Smithsonian Magazine) The objects contained at the site changed everything in terms of understanding the medieval A...

Advertisement A cheeky Georgian button depicting two people having sex is one of the many fascinating treasures which have emerged from the mud of the Thames. The piece, which is believed to date back to the 18th-Century, was found by a 'mudlarker'. The term is given to the people who comb the 100-mile foreshore of the Thames and pick up objects and artefacts revealed in the mud by the twice daily changing tides.   Anna Borzello, 54, found the erotic miniature button, which is small enough it sits on a fingertip, earlier this year as she was walking along the river.  'I like the idea of so...

For decades now, the diminutive but delightful Shire classics have been the niche collector’s best friend. These little books, whose subjects have included clay pipes, pewter, samplers, historic ships, ceramics and even the Victorian domestic servant, for me evoke pleasurable hours browsing in village bookshops. So it is with great affection that I picked up their latest publication, Jason Sandy and Nick Stevens’s Thames Mudlarking: Searching for London’s Lost Treasures – which was even more appealing because I myself am a keen Thames mudlarker (some of the beads I have found are ill...