by Rhian Waller | Tuesday, 30th April 2019
Please be advised that on the May Bank Holidays (Monday, 6th & Monday, 27th May 2019) the Reading Rooms will be closed to all but residents and no Glimpses will be running.
by Rhian Waller | Tuesday, 23rd April 2019
by Rhian Waller | Friday, 05th April 2019
Today when we consider the word ‘romantic’ we think of love and sentimentality, but the term ‘Romanticism’ had a much broader meaning, historically. Romanticism was a period which spanned the late 18th and early 19th centuries, emerging as a response to the disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason and order in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789. It covered a range of developments in art, literature, music and philosophy and William Gladstone himself would have been witness to its peak during his lifetime.
by Rhian Waller | Monday, 01st April 2019
Many of our patrons will know that in January 2018, the Library embarked on a three-year project externally funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York under the title of Digital Gladstone. The project aims to fully digitise and catalogue 15,000 nineteenth-century manuscript letters and 5,390 annotated printed books.
