Long summer days call for life at a slower pace, and there’s nowhere better to soak it all in than at a great British ...

Come take a stroll along one of London’s most charming riverside paths. Strand-on-the-Green, opposite Kew, is ridiculously ...

Today, licensed mudlarks explore the wet clay banks of the Thames to find preserved historical treasures revealed at low tide. On average, the London Museum's finds liaison officer records about 700 ...

Twice a day, sections of the River Thames’s shores are exposed by the receding tide, allowing a growing number of mudlarks like Elaine Duigenan to hunt through the mud for treasure.

The year-long Secrets of the Thames exhibition, which opened last month at the London Museum Docklands, is the first full-scale exhibition dedicated entirely to objects found on the Thames foreshore.

On their hands and knees on the foreshore of the River Thames (the area of the riverbed exposed at low tide), these “ mudlarks ” get down and dirty in a race against time, searching for traces ...

Here are three remarkable historical treasures that were discovered thanks to mudlarks who search the banks of London's River Thames.

National treasures: an expert guide to mudlarking on the Thames Every low tide, the river’s foreshore surrenders pieces of London’s past. Here’s where — and how — to safely look ...

The pros tend to work the shore on the low tides on weekdays. You'll see them with metal detectors and spades digging frantically before an incoming tide.

These “mudlarks”— a person who gains a livelihood by searching for iron, coal, old ropes etc. in mud or low tide—routinely scavenged the foreshore of the Thames, making a living by selling ...