Thanks to the People’s Museum, NW1, hosting my talk about the history of solvent sniffing last week.

Found #mudkarking along the river Thames: a plastic wallet for holding lens filters (?) dated 1971 from East German photographic manufacturer, Pentacon. The Pentacon Six SLR system was one of the more successful Eastern Bloc consumer products exported to the West. #coldwar #history #materialculture

Today I discovered the power of denture cleaning tablets in revealing the decoration on mud-stained 17th century pottery! #mudlarking #earlymodern #materialculture

Q&A I did recently with ‘All About History’ magazine on Thames mudlarking.

Brilliant new article by @malcolmrussell73.bsky.social on glue-sniffing panics, youth boredom and deindustrialising towns c. 1970s-80s, published in @mbhjournal.bsky.social This began life as an exceptional MA dissertation at @uclhistory.bsky.social Congrats Malcolm! doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

Delighted to share that my first journal article is now published. Many thanks to everyone who offered feedback and encouragement along the way. doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

Back searching the Thames at low tide this morning for detritus from London’s past. Found: 16th c stove tile fragment with dragon’s head. #mudlarking #earlymodern

Opium pipe bowl (late 19th-early 20th c.) I found #mudlarking along the Thames a few years ago. Recently used as the jumping off point for a paper on opium smoking given at the Finds Research Group conference. This was held at @londonmuseum.bsky.social to coincide with its mudlarking exhibition