Maryam Dorudi arrived at her second PGCE placement school to find many pupils receiving free school meals and speaking English as an additional language. Wanting her students to identify as Londoners and historians, she was drawn into the world of mudlarking and Lara Maiklem. Over the course of eight lessons, she introduced her Year 8 students to evidential and environmental questions, while also stretching them to see the story of their home in new ways. This article is exciting in the way it places questions about historical evidence centre stage in significant questions about citizenship and ownership of pieces of the past. Evidence here is far from Sources A to F, instead becoming precious finds, portals to lost Londoners and potential online sale items. Dorudi takes us through the challenges she faced while planning, and her main takeaways from incorporating objects into the secondary history classroom...