A Mudlarking Year  – Lara Maiklem

For over two decades, Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames to find objects – lost or discarded – that tell the greatest stories. She became a bestselling author with her debut Mudlarking.  In A Mudlarking Year she reflects on 12 months searching the unpredictable foreshore and the riches bestowed by the tide from medieval pilgrim badges to Georgian wig curlers – ordinary objects that tell the rich story of London’s history and its inhabitants. Join her for a revealing illustrated talk about the treasures found in the deeper waters some of which she will be bringing to Sheffield to show. 

‘Lara Maiklem is a phenomenon … The foreshore is no longer a grubby backwater but our own valley of the kings, rich in beauty and poignancy’ Dan Snow