History & Culture

Broken bits of our social history - mudlarking in the Thames

Brixton Library

10 September 2026

Free

Licensed mudlarker Pauline Crowe talks through what the Thames foreshore has actually given up, from clay pipes to pottery shards to the odd stray pin, each one a small clue to how Londoners actually lived. The river has been the city's rubbish tip for two thousand years, and by the sound of it, still has plenty left to give.