The London was a 17th century Royal Navy warship that exploded and sank in the Thames Estuary off Southend Pier in Essex in 1665. The wreck is a protected site managed by Historic England. Following tidal erosion, artefacts were lifted from the site and conserved. Angela Middleton will talk about the challenges of maritime finds processing, and what we have learned to date about the ‘London’.

Angela holds a degree in archaeological conservation from the University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, and an MSc in Maritime Conservation Science from the University of Portsmouth. She joined Historic England as an Archaeological Conservator in 2007. Here she is responsible for advising on and undertaking research and investigative conservation on material retrieved from land and marine sites. She has a special interest in the conservation of waterlogged organic materials.