Recommended reading material from our staff.
Simon Clarke (Director)
Kellow Chesney – Victorian Underworld (a catalogue of wonders and horrors)
Mayhew – London Labour and the London Poor
Mayhew and others – The London underworld in the Victorian period
Patricia Pierce – Old London Bridge
Lara Maiklem – Mudlarking
Jason Sandy and Nick Stevens – Thames Mudlarking
Cohen and Wragg – The River’s Tale
Schmid – Atlas of Animal Bones (very expensive but given the quantity of bones on the foreshore, fascinating)
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England – Ian Mortimer (audiobook read by the sublime Mike Grady)
Jo-Anne Sunderland Bowe (foreshore teacher currently studying for a PhD)
Ackroyd – London
Pickard – Elizabeth’s London / Restoration London / Victorian London
Cookson – Crossing the River
Leahy and Lewis – Finds identified (PAS)
Adkins and Adkins The Handbook of British Archaeology
Christine Webb (foreshore teacher, historian and mudlark)
Sarah Penner – The Lost Apothecary (fiction – mentioned in forward)
Jane Casey The Cutting Place (fiction – Thames Explorer mention in the forward)
Ted Sandling – London in Fragments: A Mudlark’s Treasures. (I recommend this to most to beginners)
What the Victorians Threw Away – Tom Licence
Rag and Bone – Lisa Woollett
The Thames at War – Gustav Milne
Finds Identified 2: Dress Fittings and Ornaments – Leahy and Lewis