Tom Chivers
@thisisyogic
Writer, publisher, producer | Author – London Clay @transworldbooks | PhD @QMULGeography @MOLarchaeology | Founder @PennedintheM | Thames mudlark | Dad of girls
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City is now out in paperback! 📚 🌳 Urban woodlands 💦 Lost rivers 🏝 Mythical islands 🪨 Geological anomalies in the heart of London Available @waterstones or wherever you get your books 👉 bit.ly/3b3Quds
🔍 🚨 Mudlarks and other searchers! This brilliant new project is mapping the distribution of post-medieval German stoneware vessels - so-called Bartmann or Bellarmine jugs - around the world 🌎 Now YOU can help by adding your finds to the database 👇
Delighted to announce the project website for #BartmannGoesGlobal an Anglo-German collaboration focused on the ubiquitous Rhenish stoneware #Bartmann #Bellarmine jug. Found on archaeological sites or shipwrecks off Western Australia there’s no escaping these German lovelies. 🧵
Searching the Thames foreshore – my happy place 🌊 Photo by @loolamoo 🩵
8 years ago today! One of the best (and maddest) things I made.
🌞 “In a somer seson whan softe was the sonne…” On this day in 2017 - 8 years ago! - our site-specific reimagining of the medieval epic poem Piers Plowman opened on the misty top of the Malvern Hills ⛰️ ✨ @ThisFairField @LedburyPoetry #medievaltwitter #piersplowman
So if you’re a #mudlarker #archaeologist #curator please share this thread and encourage those with collections and finds to upload these bearded beauties @TideLineArt @SHA_org @SPMA @histarch linkedin.com/posts/museum-o…
We’re really keen to promote the ‘submit a jug’ platform to democratise how we understand the geographical reach of these finds. We’ve already had some tremendous submissions, like this example from the Thames foreshore bartmanngoesglobal.org/1827872693
Please consider signing this petition to retain educational support for SEN children petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7110…
Few more tickets released! Join the fantastic @liz_lizanderson for a special #londonriversweek2025 talk about the 'seasonal Thames and our wellbeing'. 📅Tues 3rd June. 12pm-1pm Book here: book.plinth.org.uk/e/9gFZX1RQZIL7…
Stormy skies. So much heart. Red and blue everywhere. South London and Proud ❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙 🏆 🏆 🏆 🎉 🎉 🎉 #cpfc
Premier League champions recognise FA Cup winners. Touch of class, @LFC 👏 #CPFC
I remember crouching in long grass to record Thomas’s poems with the wind scudding across the marshes from the North Sea. Magical.
On this day in 2019 site-specific installation Brine Field by Thomas Pearson opened @RSPBSaltholme 🏗️ 🍃 🎧 You can hear Thomas reading his haunting poems set in this post-industrial landscape on our SoundCloud channel: soundcloud.com/pennedinthemar…
Wednesday 28 May Doors open 7.15 for 7.30pm start @RBHistory Talk by Pete Smith "Messing about on the River" Maritime themed talk by a City of London & City of Westminster guide 📌Norwegian Church Albion St #SE16 7JB Mèmbers free Guests £3 rbhistory.org.uk/event-details/…
@thisisyogic Dark Islands! Poems, design and print in this stunning little book set a really high bar for each other!
‘a stick of gammy kryptonite’ from Dark Islands by @thisisyogic
Ten whole years ago today. My second, and final, book of poems.
Dark Islands by Tom Chivers is out today! You can order your copy here: testcentre.org.uk/product/dark-i… @thisisyogic
I’m an armchair fan these days but 💯 Palace since I first sat in the family section of the Arthur Waite aged 10 followed by season ticket in the Holmesdale watching us yo-yo bwn Premier & old First Division. I’m thrilled for the players & fans. SOUTH LONDON & PROUD ❤️💙🦅
We all know what is next... #CPFC
A busy day on the river: these both came past #Rotherhithe within a short space of time.
Pax 🕊️
Habemus Papam! We have a Pope! The Cardinals gathered in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel have elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th Pope, who took the name Pope Leo XIV.