Exploring Women, Madness, and Disability in the Library and Archives

25 April 2024

Exploring Women, Madness, and Disability in the Library and Archives

“I felt extremely lucky to receive this scholarship because I knew my research would be greatly enhanced by the huge and varied array of resources on offer at the Library, but I was also really looking forward to having an idyllic workspace to study away from all of life’s distractions!” – Hannah Helm

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History: What it is and isn’t - Dan Kaszeta in the History Room

20 March 2024

History: What it is and isn’t - Dan Kaszeta in the History Room

History: What it is and isn’t

An article by Dan Kazseta, Writer in Residence in February and March 2024 and author of Toxic.

“History is not simply chronology and stenography, although those are basic building blocks. The uninitiated claim that “you can’t rewrite history” but that is literally not true. History is more than chronology, but even sometimes the chronology is wrong and has to get updated. History is also more than single-perspective accounts…”

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Mothers in the Archive

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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Cataloguing the Anne Ramsden Bennett Archive

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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Drawing Blood Q&A, week 17 - how can I get involved?

10 September 2021

Drawing Blood Q&A, week 17 - how can I get involved?

Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we’ve been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.

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Drawing Blood Q&A, week 3 - who is involved in the project?

27 May 2021

Drawing Blood Q&A, week 3 - who is involved in the project?

Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we’ve been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.

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Drawing Blood Q&A, week 1 - how did this project get started?

19 May 2021

Drawing Blood Q&A, week 1 - how did this project get started?

Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we’ve been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.

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In colour: King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra’s visit to Gladstone’s Library

10 December 2019

In colour: King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra’s visit to Gladstone’s Library

Early sepia-drenched photographs of Gladstone’s Library I have seen are curious. They are strange portals into a familiar but unfamiliar world. They can also be a bit like dusty moths, lifeless and flattened in the pages of history. I wanted to (amateurly) try and put a bit of colour in one.

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Collection Spotlight: Beginning with A…

22 January 2019

Collection Spotlight: Beginning with A…

In this regular series, library staff ‘spotlight’ a single item, or a set of items, from the thousands of print and archive items held in the collections here at Gladstone’s Library. Read on and discover more about the items on our shelves…

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John Douglas – the man behind Gladstone’s Library

26 October 2018

John Douglas – the man behind Gladstone’s Library

Do you know the man behind the building of Gladstone’s Library? Possibly not. His name is John Douglas and he designed, during his life, more than 500 buildings. One of them was St Deiniol’s Library, today known as Gladstone’s Library.

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