Latest News

26 September 2024

Writers in Residence 2025: Revealed!

We are delighted to reveal the names of our 2025 Writers in Residence. 

More than 150 writers applied for the opportunity to stay at the Library for up to a month to work on their next book.

Today, we can announce that the 2025 Writers in Residence at Gladstone’s Library are…

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24 September 2024

Opening Hours from January 2025

From January 2025, Gladstone’s Library will be changing the Reading Room opening hours. 

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30 August 2024

Building Work at Gladstone's Library

Building work has been carried out on the Library grounds over the last two weeks. We commissioned specialist contractors to repair the drainage at the front of this Grade I listed building and to stabilise the ground beneath the main porch.

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18 July 2024

Writers in Residence 2025 Shortlist

Ten writers have been shortlisted for a prestigious residency award at our unique Library.

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13 June 2024

Gladstone's Library Welcomes Prestigious Diamond Dagger Award to Its Archives

This week, the team at Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, Flintshire, announced the addition of the esteemed Diamond Dagger Award to its archives.

This prestigious award, presented annually by the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) alongside twelve other Dagger awards, is a lifetime achievement award recognising outstanding contributions to crime writing in the English language.

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18 March 2024

Gladstone's Library secures £126,729 National Lottery funding to support young person's project

The project will empower young people (aged 16-24) to explore and discuss universal Gladstonian themes of religious tolerance, human rights, and democracy, and more challenging historical and contemporary topics such as slavery, colonialism, and minority rights.

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12 January 2024

Gladfest is on holiday in 2024

Thanks to a £777,246 grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) Covid-19 Response Fund, our focus in 2024 will be on making major repairs to our historic Library.

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5 January 2024

First Minister of Wales Visit

“It was a pleasure to meet Mr Drakeford and talk to him about the archives and the special collections here, about the Library as it is today and about its future.”

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19 December 2023

Remembering Sara

Christmas is a time for remembering. Here, we remember a particular Friend to the Library. In mid-October, one of our supporters Joseph Boughey led a Remembrance Event for his beloved wife, Sara Richards, at the Library.

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