Background
Lara Maiklem was born in the United Kingdom.
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Lara Maiklem
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Lara's findings
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Lara Maiklem
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Lara is mudlarking on the Thames foreshore
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Lara with some of her findings on the foreshore
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Lara Maiklem
(Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over...)
Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hairpins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys. As she has discovered, it is often the tiniest objects that tell the greatest stories.
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2019
Lara Maiklem was born in the United Kingdom.
Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hairpins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys. Lara doesn't consider herself an archeologist or even a treasure hunter, obsessively searching for gold and coins with a metal detector. She is a seeker and collector of pieces of human history. Her finds sometimes amount to no more than a button, a broken clay pipe or a shard of pottery, but each one is a precious window into past lives lived on and around the capital’s famous river. These objects tell her about London and its lost ways of life. Moving from the river’s tidal origins in the west of the city to the point where it meets the sea in the east, Mudlarking is a search for urban solitude and history on the River Thames, what Lara calls ‘the longest archaeological landscape in the world’. Alert to the ethics of ownership, she collects only those treasures that the museums reject.
Lara moved from her family’s farm to London in the 1990s and now lives with her family on the Kent coast within easy reach of the river, which she visits as regularly as the tides permit. A custodian of the past, Maiklem’s relation to the life of the river is personal rather than scientific. Known as the ‘London Mudlark’, she has a combined social media audience of over 83,000 followers and has been featured in the Guardian and on BBC News, BBC World Service and BBC Radio 3. Mudlarking: lost and found on the river Thames is her first book, which was published in August 2019.
(Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over...)
2019Lara began walking the Thames foreshore as a way of finding peace, solitude, and sanity in one of the largest cities on earth. It has seen her through the death of her father and the confusion of early parenthood.