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The Thames foreshore provides a variety of evidence for past maritime connections, and the lives of people who lived and worked on the Thames. The photo above shows lighters tied up at the small wharves of Limehouse taken in 1884-1885. There are a range of questions the TDP hope to address around the following topics under the umbrella of ‘Liquid History’. A full list of the research themes can be found in the Riverpedia Research Framework. and in the Research Themes index.


Learn more

Check out the articles below to learn more about Liquid History.

  • Plans for our New Wave event - a scavenger hunt with a twist!
  • London's Lost Waterway
  • Catch up on our Tideway Talk with Lauren Speed on the Portable Antiquities Scheme
  • Catch up on our Tideway Talk with Adam Corsini on Layers of London
  • The Rose Playhouse
  • Modern Ritual Activity
  • Shipbuilding in London 1860-1911
  • London Bodies
  • Stories from the Thames at War
  • Gazetteer of Riverside Churches
  • Churches by the River
  • Unexploded Ordnance
  • The Princess Alice Disaster
  • A Tale of Two Bridges
  • Liquid History
  • The Crown Estate & the Thames
  • Riverside Walls in Hammersmith
  • Baynard's Castle
  • Art and the Thames