Here you can listen to a preview of A Mudlark's Treasures audiobook (read by the author Ted Sandling) - OUT 18th MAY
Exhilaratingly curious.' Evening Standard
'Gripping.' Spectator
'Brilliant.' Penelope Lively
'Indefatigably researched.' Country Life
'Wonderful, quirky.' Tracy Chevalier
Mudlarking, the act of searching the Thames foreshore for items of value, has a long tradition in London. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, mudlarks were small boys grubbing a living from scrap. Modern-day mudlark Ted Sandling shares his passion for unearthing relics of the past from the banks of the Thames and describes his fifty most evocative finds. From Roman tiles to elegant Georgian pottery, these objects create a mosaic of everyday London life through the centuries, touching on the journeys, pleasures, vices and industries of a world city. This book celebrates the beauty of small things, and the intangible connection that found objects give us to the past.
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