Ted Sandling
Auteur van London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures
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Recently I've enjoyed reading books written by successful mudlarks. The topic is so great because it allows authors to weave together social history, psychogeography, and memoir, all focused on my favorite city in the world. I very much enjoyed both this book and Laura Maiklem's "Mudlarking" which I read last year. They are very different but both use the found objects in creative ways to tell stories about London's history. In this book, I liked particularly Sandling's sensitive connection of his treasures not just to local but also to global histories of trade, consumption, slavery, and imperialism. Recommended!… (meer)