This document provides reading lists related to the Thames Discovery Programme in three sections: Core Reading, Further Reading, and Foreshore studies. The Core Reading section lists eight foundational texts on the history and archaeology of the River Thames and London. The Further Reading section expands on specific topics like the history of investigation, guidelines and legislation, and research frameworks. The Foreshore studies section cites several papers that study archaeological surveys and findings along the Thames foreshore.

1. Thames Discovery Programme
Reading Lists
A 15th century view of London
Core Reading
Ackroyd, P. 2007 Thames: Sacred River
Barton, N. 1992 The Lost Rivers of London
Milne, G. 1985 The Port of Roman London
Milne, G. 2003 The Port of Medieval London
MoLAS, 2000, The Archaeology of Greater London: an assessment of archaeological evidence
for human presence in the area now covered by Greater London
Schofield J 1984 The Building of London from the Conquest to the Great Fire
Trench, R and Hillman, E 1993 London Under London: A subterranean guide
Weinreb, B. and Hibbert, C. (eds) 1983 The London Encyclopaedia
Further Reading
History of Investigation
Anon, 1971 Wandsworth Mud Larking in London Archaeologist, Vol. 1, no. 11, 248
Cumming, V., Merriman, N. and Ross, C. 1996 Museum of London Scala Books: London
Noël Hume, I. 1956 Treasure in the Thames Frederick Muller Ltd: London
Shepperd, L 1987 The Treasury Of London’s Past: An Historical Account of the Museum of
London and its predecessors, the Guildhall Museum and the London Museum
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2. Guidelines and Legislation
Department of the Environment, 1990 Planning Policy Guidance 16, Archaeology and
Planning
Planning Policy Statement 5: Planning for the Historic Environment 2010
Fulford, M., Champion, T. and Long, A.J. 1996 England’s coastal heritage: A desk top study
and management plan for coastal archaeology
Flatman, J. 2009 A Climate of Fear: Recent British Policy and Management of Coastal
Heritage in Public Archaeology, Vol. 8 No. 1, 3–19
Research Frameworks
Museum of London, 2002 A research framework for London archaeology
William, J. and Brown, N. (eds.) 1999 An Archaeological Research Framework for the Greater
Thames Estuary Essex County Council, Kent County Council and English Heritage
Heppell, E. 2010 Greater Thames Research Framework Essex County Council, Kent County
Council and English Heritage
Greater Thames Framework documents are available via the Thames Estuary Partnership
website
Foreshore studies
Cowie, R. and Eastmond, D. 1997 An archaeological survey of the foreshore in the Borough
of Richmond upon Thames in London Archaeologist, Vol.8, Part 1 no. 4, 87-93 and Part 2 no.
5, 115-121
Haughey, F. 1999 The Archaeology of the Thames: prehistory within a dynamic landscape in
London Archaeologist, Vol.9, no. 1, 16-21 Online “here”:
Haughey, F. 2003 From prediction to prospection: finding prehistory in London’s river in
Alluvial Archaeology in Europe (eds. A Howard, M Macklin and D Passmore) 61-68, AA
Balkema: Lisse
Milne, G. with Bates, M. and Webber, M.D. 1997 Problems, potential and partial solutions:
an archaeological study of the tidal Thames, England in World Archaeology, Vol. 29 (1), 130-
146
Ship studies
Marsden, P. 1994 Ships of the Port of London: first to eleventh centuries AD English Heritage
Archaeological Report 3
Marsden, P. 1996 Ships of the Port of London: twelfth to seventeenth centuries AD English
Heritage Archaeological Report 5
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3. Selected waterfront studies
Further information about MoL Archaeology publications is available here
Ayre, J. and Wroe-Brown, R. 2002 The London Millennium Bridge: Excavations of the
medieval and later waterfronts at Peter’s Hill, City of London, and Bankside, Southwark
MoLAS Archaeology Study Series 6
Sidell, J., Wilkinson, K., Scaife, R. and Cameron, N. 2000 The Holocene Evolution of the
London Thames: Archaeological Excavations (1991-1998) for the London Underground
Limited Jubilee Line Extension Project MoLAS Monograph 5
Swift, D 2007 Roman Waterfront Development; Excavations at 12 Arthur St MoLAS
Archaeology Study Series 20
Watson, B, Brigham, T and Dyson, T 2000 London Bridge: 2000 years of a river crossing
MoLAS Monograph Series 8
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