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Liz Anderson

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Licensed Thames Mudlark. Up To My Eyes In Silt. NB: It is illegal to search the tidal Thames Foreshore, for any reason, without a valid permit from the Port of London Authority. Instagram: @lizanderson2 Blog: A Mudlark’s Diary https://amudlarksdiary.com/

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 8h

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 5h

I love this.

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 5h

Didier the Doodle has gatecrashed the cats and kittens thing & is sending his warmest regards (and stuffed toy owls) your way x

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 20h

Parisian arcades.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 7h

Same. I still have one of my favourite books from childhood, Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner. It’s in an absolute STATE, loose pages, broken spine, doodles drawn on certain pages but I loved it to pieces and read it over and over. A book life well lived.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 7h

Congratulations to you both! Santé 🥂

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 20h

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 2d

Weird guys at Historiska Museet in Lund

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 8h

I once saw this colour of tiles in a bathroom though thankfully not one of those avocado coloured suites.

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 8h

London is always showing off.

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. Not a slab of chocolate but concretion with brown tiles, and definitely has a 1960s interior décor look, if you ask me. The river has forever been used as a dustbin for building rubble, whether Roman or from the modern era #Mudlark #ThamesForeshore

Slab of likely 1960s concretion with brown tiles, probably from a wall but could be floor. Posed in my hand on the Thames Foreshore at low tide, the Shard and London Bridge in the distance.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Last weekend of this year’s pop-up Hands On History/Thames Festival Trust mudlarking exhibitions in the crypt of the stunning St Paul’s Cathedral, London, on a beautiful autumn day. The exhibition will be open for the final day tomorrow, Sunday 12th October, 10-5pm, entry free. Do come!

St Paul’s Cathedral, London, visible behind autumnal leaves on a beautiful blue sky Saturday.

A quick glimpse of this weekend’s Hands On History mudlarking exhibitions in the crypt of St Paul’s, some of my fellow Mudlarks on duty at their tables.

A view of my mudlarking friend Sean Clark greeting visitors to his mudlarking finds table at St Paul’s and explaining the history of some of the artefacts on display.

Members of the public enjoying the mudlarking display tables in the crypt of St Paul’s and chatting to the Mudlarks about their favourite finds.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 5d

This is when the train presumably morphs into a Lear Jet #FatChance

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 5d

A Saxon doorway from the south side of the tower of All Saints’ Church at Brixworth in Northamptonshire. Using recycled Roman tiles, the doorway was originally internal and led to a now demolished cell. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Brixworth #Northamptonshire

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 5d

Ours is correcting a confusing announcement telling half-asleep passengers we’re arriving at a station we’ve just left #TwilightZone

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 5d

This weekend sees the final Hands on History mudlarking exhibition of the autumn’s Totally Thames Festival 2025. Come and meet the Mudlarks within the historic walls of stunning St Paul’s Cathedral, Sat 11th/Sun 12th October, 10-5pm, free entry. Do come! #mudlarks #mudlarking #HandsOnHistory

Flyer for our last Hands on History exhibition of this autumn’s Totally Thames Festival showing St Paul’s Cathedral visible above the Northbank skyline & Thames Foreshore. The Cathedral will be hosting a mudlarking exhibition this weekend Sat 11th & Sun 12th Oct, 10-5pm, free entry.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 6d

He really is.

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 7d

You sound nice.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 8d

The Grade 1 listed North Wing of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London reopens after £9.5 million restoration with 2 William Hogarth masterpiece murals available for the public to see for the first time. 👇
BBC News - Hospital's Hogarth opens to public for first time
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Hogarth masterpieces restored at Barts Hospital open to public

The restoration of the north wing has 'recaptured its beauty and dignity', the project teams says.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 8d

#MosaicMonday: colourful #Roman glass tesserae found in Geneva/Switzerland, dating 3rd/4th c. AD.

Mosaic cubes were made of stone, pottery, tile, or glass. Glass tesserae were rather fragile. They were used rather rarely in floor mosaics to provide colours that...🧵1/2

#archaeology 🏺

A pile of small glass mosaic cubes in shades of blue, green, and yellow, on a white surface.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 8d

I’d add that the theatres are also very much to blame, people literally being allowed/encouraged to sit in the auditorium eating food and bringing in drink. Bad enough in the cinema, though that is at least ‘sort of’ more common, but eating & drinking through a shortish lecture/play is abominable 😤

Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 8d

Hahahahaha…
#AnEveningWithMaryBeard

At ‘An Evening With Mary Beard’ tonight. Comparisons being explored between certain cruel, stupid, autocratic Ancient Roman Emperors and a certain American President.

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 8d

At Richmond Theatre this evening for an evening with Professor Mary Beard. Judging by the number of people brandishing buckets of popcorn as they take their seats, we are in for a lot of chomping tonight. Are folk really unable to sit through an hour and twenty minutes lecture without eating?

Blue lit stage in a theatre surrounded by pillars, in the middle two chairs with a more comfortable seat in the middle. Above on the screen the legend that is Professor Mary Beard.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 18d

'Mudlarking' (2021) by Tim Southall
timsouthall.net

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