by Louisa Yates | Wednesday, 11th November 2020

A new space for all important staff news.

by Louisa Yates | Wednesday, 11th November 2020

A new Reader-only space

by Louisa Yates | Wednesday, 16th September 2020

Priority Booking for Friends

by Louisa Yates | Wednesday, 16th September 2020

Friends get the newsletter early

by Louisa Yates | Wednesday, 16th September 2020

After six months of being closed due to Covid 19, the Library's Warden met with some of the Library's Friends via Zoom.

by Louisa Yates | Wednesday, 16th September 2020

We have had to make some changes due to the pandemic in 2020. Read on to find out more.

by Louisa Yates | Wednesday, 16th September 2020

Gladstone's books now more secure than ever

by Gladstones Library | Friday, 08th November 2019

A couple of nights ago, at my Q&A event at the Library, an audience member asked a question along the lines of: If I cared about climate change, why wasn’t I writing political slogans instead of poems? A good question in these times of heightened worry for our world and our environment, and one that I answered briefly at the time, but which I think is very important to address more fully too. 

by Gladstones Library | Friday, 08th November 2019

William Gladstone (who lived until he was 88) read 22,000 books in his life. They like telling people this fact when they arrive at the Library, I suppose, because they like to see how their faces contort as they try to do the maths. Let me save you the trouble – it works out at around a book a day, for most of his adult life.