A new exhibition at the London Museum Docklands spotlights hundreds of mudlarking finds, from Bronze Age tools to Viking ...

Nearly 200 years later, at the London Summer Olympic Games in 1908, spectators thronged the banks of Henley-on-Thames, site of the annual Royal Regatta, as British scullers competed against crews ...

Mudlarking is restricted along the Thames and only ... a popular hobby among history lovers. The items, along with hundreds of others, feature in a new exhibition at the London Museum.

Mudlarking, once a trade of the Victorian poor, has evolved into a modern-day hobby that captivates everyday Londoners and history ... In London Museum’s new exhibition, Secrets of the Thames ...

Some of these items have inevitably ended up in the river Thames. Luckily for history buffs ... itself is a cherished historic feature of London life, having been practiced in the British capital ...

Matheson says the market is growing as London increasingly embraces its waterway. The Thames suffered an identity crisis in the half century or more since the advent of the shipping container ...