London Rivers Week 2025: A walk with Lara Maiklem (SOLD OUT)

Join Thames21 and mudlark Lara Maiklem for a London Rivers Week walk on the Thames foreshore. We’ll meet outside The Banker pub on the 6^th of June at 4pm and head east towards London Bridge. 💦🐚

⬇️ Learn more about Lara:

Lara is a licensed Mudlark with 20 years of experience searching the Thames. In that time she has amassed a collection of unusual lost and discarded objects, including an Iron Age pot, Roman hair pins, a medieval pilgrim badge, Tudor shoes, 17th century children’s toys, scores of buttons, hundreds of clay pipes and even a glass eye. She began posting on social media in 2012 and her first book, Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames was published by Bloomsbury in 2019. It became an instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Radio 4 Book of the Week and it won the Indie Award for Non-Fiction 2020.

Lara has written on Mudlarking for the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Financial Times and Spectator magazine. She wrote a short mudlarking series for BBC Radio, has appeared many times on national and international television and radio, and has even done a TED Talk. In 2019 she was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and in 2020 she became an Associate Brother of the Artworker’s Guild. You can join her on social media @LondonMudlark (Facebook and Twitter) and @London.Mudlark (Instagram).

➡️Book your space here: https://book.plinth.org.uk/e/avS8B30h0Dh1pbpqUa1L

🥾Please ensure you have suitable footwear (wellies or boots) and weather-appropriate clothing for the day.

📧If you have any questions, please contact Steph at stephanie.fernandes@thames21.org.uk

This is a FREE event.

All U18s must be accompanied by an adult.