Four Months Away by Irene Marin

4 April 2014

Four Months Away by Irene Marin

Gladstone’s Library has been playing host to a special guest these past three months, Irene Marin has joined us from Barcelona as our newest intern. In this blog post she writes about the experien

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At Gladstone's Library for World Book Day 2014 by Phillip Clement

6 March 2014

At Gladstone's Library for World Book Day 2014 by Phillip Clement

What better place to be for World Book Day than Gladstone’s Library? Phillip Clement tells you about what we’ve been up to today…

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My Mother was an Upright Piano by Muriel Maufroy

25 November 2013

My Mother was an Upright Piano by Muriel Maufroy

Muriel Maufroy reviews Tania Hershman’s ‘My Mother was an Upright Piano’, a collection of fifty-six short-short fictions.

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Mrs Gladstone by Muriel Maufroy

12 November 2013

Mrs Gladstone by Muriel Maufroy

Muriel Maufroy uses a book found in the library as she delves into the secret life of Catherine Gladstone to discuss the complex intricacies of marriage in the Nineteenth Century.

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Commencing the Treasure Hunt by Jamie Stokes

5 November 2013

Commencing the Treasure Hunt by Jamie Stokes

Library Intern, Jamie Stokes, takes us through a new task at the Library and sheds light upon one of the lesser known trinkets of the Library: ‘The Paraphrase of Erasmus’, translated by Queen Mary

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Buried in The Library (The Unnaming of Things) by Jamie Stokes

8 October 2013

Buried in The Library (The Unnaming of Things) by Jamie Stokes

Jamie Stokes, Library Intern at Gladstone’s Library, tells of a book he found buried in the Annex of the Library.

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A 'Queen of the Left Hand of England' by Muriel Maufroy

6 August 2013

A 'Queen of the Left Hand of England' by Muriel Maufroy

You never know what you might discover when looking through the shelves of Gladstones Library. In the room which contains the whole collection of the books Gladstone originally donated over 30,000 v

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Five Years in a Protestant Sisterhood & Ten Years in a Catholic Convent by Muriel Maufroy

10 July 2013

Five Years in a Protestant Sisterhood & Ten Years in a Catholic Convent by Muriel Maufroy

The title is certainly intriguing. Intriguing too is the fact that Gladstone clearly read this autobiography (the author remains anonymous) carefully, as attested by his many pencil written annotations.

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Facts and Opinions about Judaism by Muriel Maufroy

24 June 2013

Facts and Opinions about Judaism by Muriel Maufroy

That different people may at times hold completely opposite opinions on a specific subject, appealing in both cases to large audiences, is strikingly evident to anyone browsing through the shelves of

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Edge of Empire by Muriel Maufroy

10 June 2013

Edge of Empire by Muriel Maufroy

Gladstones Library is certainly not short of history books, especially when it comes to the Victorian era. However, history is inevitably the view of the past that someone holds which causes their vie

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