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by Gladstones Library | Thursday, 31st March 2022
Since March is Women’s History Month, it seemed appropriate to spotlight some of the women book owners recently identified within the collections.
by Gladstones Library | Monday, 28th March 2022
I began to reflect on women’s experiences of maternity two hundred years ago: a time when maternal and infant mortality were far higher than today, when women had limited control over how many children they bore, and when difficult births were typically endured with little or no pain relief.
by Rhian Waller | Friday, 25th March 2022
The Anne Ramsden Bennett Archive is the first collection that I have catalogued. It has given me the unique opportunity to learn about cataloguing, and to learn more about the role of women in the publishing industry in the nineteenth century.
by Louisa Yates | Monday, 14th March 2022
"Half-way through my two-week stay at Gladstone’s Library, I felt the need to close my laptop and notebook and to spend a day reading. To anyone who knew what I had to achieve in the following week, taking time away from Microsoft Word would have seemed reckless, if not irresponsible!"
