Collections Archives - Gladstone's Library

22 April 2025

Befriend a Book 2024 – Campaign Success!

Our Befriend a Book 2024 fundraising campaign has now ended and thanks to the generous support of fourteen donors we are delighted to say…

2 March 2023

Gladstone, Geology, and Genesis in the 1880s

‘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)

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26 May 2022

A Glance At the Letters of Lady Mary Glynne

Gladstone’s Library holds a valuable collection of letters written to Lady Glynne after 1800 that I had the privilege of viewing whilst researching a society that met in Chester in this period [1]. The picture that emerged, brief highlights of which are set out here, made it more than worth the while.

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28 March 2022

Mothers in the Archive

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.

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25 March 2022

Cataloguing the Anne Ramsden Bennett Archive

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.

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