by Gladstones Library | Wednesday, 18th September 2019

At Gladstone’s Library, we know Virginia Woolf’s quote, ‘one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well’ to be true. 

by Gladstones Library | Monday, 16th September 2019

We are delighted to announce the names of the five winners of our Writers in Residence award and the two winners of our Politics in Residence prize 2020. 

by Gladstones Library | Thursday, 12th September 2019

Did you know that Gladstone's Library is a member of the Independent Libraries Association? 

by Gladstones Library | Sunday, 01st September 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.