by Rhian Waller | Tuesday, 19th December 2023
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.
by Rhian Waller | Thursday, 23rd November 2023
I said hello to Lilly the dog, whose eyes closed in contentment as I gave her sweet face a pet. “It’s so nice to see you again,” I said, and I meant it.
Author N West Moss offers a slice of Hawarden life, after spending a month in the community
by Rhian Waller | Tuesday, 21st November 2023
by Rhian Waller | Friday, 10th November 2023
Peter Stanley is 90 years old, lives in Boughton, Chester, and is adamant that he is not a writer. Despite that, he has written and self-published a book, KISS: A Meditation on the Art of Wellbeing by Keeping It Simple, a part memoir, part self-help book based on his own life.
by Rhian Waller | Monday, 23rd October 2023
"These hours alone, stretched and prepared by all that came before them, seem limber enough to hold new words. At the end of a good day, duration disappears."
by Jude Piesse
by Rhian Waller | Tuesday, 19th September 2023
Today, Andrea Russell, Warden of Gladstone’s Library, and Louisa Yates, Director of Collections and Research at the Library, have revealed the Writers in Residence for 2024.
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by Rhian Waller | Monday, 11th September 2023
It turns out the ideal, for me at least, isn’t a room of one’s own: it’s a room of one’s own in a residential library and also a desk in said library’s nineteenth-century reading room. A blog by writer Laura Evans
by Rhian Waller | Thursday, 31st August 2023
Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden hosted a talk on Gladstone and the Metaverse in the library’s Victorian Reading Rooms on August 30.
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by Rhian Waller | Friday, 25th August 2023
by Rhian Waller | Thursday, 17th August 2023
YOU are invited to a festival billed as the UK’s friendliest literary event.
by Rhian Waller | Wednesday, 09th August 2023
Gladstone’s Library will undergo major repairs and restoration thanks to support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF).
by Rhian Waller | Wednesday, 02nd August 2023
Would a week at a residential Library benefit your studies? We are pleased to announce that our 2024 Scholarships are now open for application.
by Rhian Waller | Friday, 14th July 2023
Eight authors have been selected for the Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence 2024 shortlist...
by Rhian Waller | Sunday, 02nd July 2023
Our Friends are a deeply cherished part of the Library community. Many have loyally supported us for decades, while others have joined us recently. All of them are sympathetic to the vision of the Library, which includes offering books, archives and spaces for study and reflection, to those who otherwise would not be able to find them. Friends donations are crucial to helping us do that.
by Rhian Waller | Friday, 02nd June 2023
"I came to Gladstone’s Library to finish the first draft of a play (hence the obsessive play reading), and by the end of my stay, I had all ninety-eight pages of it written, typed, and sent out for an initial read to those of my writer friends who don't mind an occasional typo. I have never in my life been this productive."
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by Rhian Waller | Wednesday, 24th May 2023
THE FORMER President of Armenia visited a Flintshire library to pay respects to its founder, William Gladstone. Dr Armen Sarkissian, who was President of Armenia from 2018 to 2022, visited Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden on May 22 to mark the Library’s Founder’s Day celebrations.
by Rhian Waller | Friday, 19th May 2023
STAFF at Gladstone’s Library in Flintshire have been honoured with a prestigious Small Employer Award.
by Rhian Waller | Wednesday, 10th May 2023
Tickets for a crime writing festival are “flying out”!Alibis In the Archive, a crime and detective writing festival, will take place at Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, Flintshire on June 9 to 11.
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by Rhian Waller | Saturday, 25th March 2023
TWO internationally renowned poets performed at a Flintshire library this week. UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and National Poet of Wales Hanan Issa delivered an hour-long reading at Gladstone's Library in Hawarden on March 23.
by Rhian Waller | Thursday, 02nd March 2023
'William Ewart Gladstone, not known for a conspicuous interest in geology, nonetheless starred in one of the period’s last prominent squabbles over the scientific accuracy of the Book of Genesis'.
A blog post by archives researcher Dr Richard Fallon (Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Birmingham)
by Rhian Waller | Monday, 13th February 2023
Welcome to Gladstone’s Library – a haven of respite in a busy life. Train to Chester, bus to Hawarden, such a warm greeting at the door. By Jill Courtnell
by Rhian Waller | Wednesday, 01st February 2023
The team at Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden have begun the hunt for the Writers in Residence of 2024.
by Rhian Waller | Monday, 16th January 2023
"Around me scurry other writers, presumably of every discipline, each entirely wrapped in our own private creative fury. Table lamps illuminate every desk, so each warm glow seems to hold a discrete weather system of intense concentration."
A blog by Writer in Residence Sophie Rickard
