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Gladfest 2018 speakers choose their most inspirational books by women

14 June 2018

Gladfest 2018 speakers choose their most inspirational books by women

As 2018 is the centennial of (some) women gaining the right to vote, we’re celebrating at Gladfest this summer with a green, white and purple Suffragette-inspired colour palette!

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Polly Atkin on her February at Gladstone’s Library

13 June 2018

Polly Atkin on her February at Gladstone’s Library

Sitting with my feet in a river in rich yellow sun on a June evening, it’s hard to think of February with any clarity. Looking towards the summer solstice after six weeks of (almost) unremittingly fine weather, the library and my wintery sojourn there seems very far away, almost implausible. 

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Gray’s Anatomy: the alien world of the human body

8 June 2018

Gray’s Anatomy: the alien world of the human body

Upon hearing the phrase Gray’s Anatomy, images may come to mind of the popular American TV series set in a Seattle hospital; however a much different medium bears the origin of this name. Within William Gladstone’s own collection there exists a 3rd edition copy of Gray’s Anatomy. Not as some might suspect, a novelised version of the TV series, but rather a complete ‘descriptive and surgical’ look at anatomy.

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William Ewart Gladstone: From birth to death

18 May 2018

William Ewart Gladstone: From birth to death

19th May 2018, marks the 120th anniversary of William Ewart Gladstone’s death. The use of the word ‘anniversary’ may seem too jolly for such a sombre event; William Gladstone’s life was extraordinary and in this post we shall celebrate it and the man behind the podium.

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Cal Flyn: Bilberry Woods / May

18 May 2018

Cal Flyn: Bilberry Woods / May

Over a long day confined to a desk a mind can wander great distances. But bodies need exercise too. To this end, every evening before dinner – or sometimes after – I’ve been stepping into the dappled light for a walk or a jog through the Bilberry Woods, on the edge of the Hawarden Estate.

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The Irish answer

1 May 2018

The Irish answer

The items on show in our Display Cabinet this month have been curated by intern Alex Locke. Entitled ‘The Irish Answer’, the display concentrates on William Gladstone and Irish Home Rule, and shows not only the complexity of the issue, but the many different types of printed matter the subject generated. In this blog, Alex gives us more on one of the major political problems of the 19th Century… 

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Your heritage our story: The History of North East Wales in 100 Objects

26 April 2018

Your heritage our story: The History of North East Wales in 100 Objects

Gladstone’s Library is proud to have loaned items from its collections to the North East Wales Heritage Forum to contribute to their exhibition at Wrexham Museum. From the Mold cape to the Gop cairn, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Welsh bible translations, castles, collieries and six of the ‘Seven Wonders of Wales’, North East Wales has an incredibly rich history which deserves to be celebrated, conserved and promoted.

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24th April: Genocide Day, Armenia

24 April 2018

24th April: Genocide Day, Armenia

1.5 million Armenians were killed (1915 – 1923) by the Ottoman Turks in what was the first genocide of the 20th Century. This followed the Armenian massacres of 1894 – 1896 and the Armenian Holocaust at Adana in 1909.

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World Curlew Day: Books, birds, and St. Beuno

20 April 2018

World Curlew Day: Books, birds, and St. Beuno

21st April is World Curlew Day, the first annual international event with the aim of raising awareness of the Curlew, one of the most recognisable of wading birds (numenius arquata). According to the RSPB, there are 66,000 breeding pairs in the UK, with 140,000 individual curlews wintering on our shores and estuaries each year.

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Rachel Malik on Horne’s Guide to Whitby and Dracula

19 April 2018

Rachel Malik on Horne’s Guide to Whitby and Dracula

A few of the many things I loved about my stay:

The rook convention outside the library; window sills so wide you can organise your life on them; the giant woodpigeons; the mushroom quiche; that there is a book called The Best Books which Gladstone wrote his name in (some things seemed simpler in the late 19th Century); treacle tart; that I thought a lot, read a lot and wrote quite a lot. That I worked out on the last day my villain’s bad, bad secret. Guilty pleasure: watching both series of The Hour again in the evenings. I love Romola Garai.

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