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Key Strokes: Writer as Swimmer by William Atkins

27 February 2017

Key Strokes: Writer as Swimmer by William Atkins

I’ve always been interested in the relationship between the work of the mind and that of the body, how one can influence the other, and the extent to which the physical overlaps with the mental: How the reservoir of one kind of energy seeps into or draws upon the other.

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‘Words, words, words': William Gladstone, 1859 and All That

31 January 2017

‘Words, words, words': William Gladstone, 1859 and All That

1859 saw the publication of many literary works. Charles Dickens, for example, began to publish his journal All The Year Round in which Wilkie Collins’s novel The Woman in White would be serialised in the same year. 

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Academic Book Week, 23rd - 28th January: Books from the GladLib collection!

26 January 2017

Academic Book Week, 23rd - 28th January: Books from the GladLib collection!

Wahey, it’s Academic Book Week! This week long celebration of the influence and diversity of academic books returns for a second year 23rd -28th January

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What would Gladstone think...?

15 December 2016

What would Gladstone think...?

I suppose it comes with the job but people have a habit of asking me, ‘What would Gladstone think…’ about such and such? Well, it is often impossible to say, although admittedly, that doesn’t always silence me. Today, somebody asked me what Gladstone would think about our contemporary Christmas.

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‘Read Rossetti’s Shadow of Dante’: William Gladstone’s diary reference to Maria Francesca Rossetti

13 December 2016

‘Read Rossetti’s Shadow of Dante’: William Gladstone’s diary reference to Maria Francesca Rossetti

Most people have heard of the poet Christina Rossetti, sister of the Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but fewer readers may be aware there was another sister, Maria. Fewer still may know that she was also a published author.

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Reconsidering the Apostles' Creed

24 October 2016

Reconsidering the Apostles' Creed

Last week (18th – 22nd October) Gladstone’s Library hosted 107 people who, over the course of two conferences and one public lecture, reflected on their Christian Faith, what is essential to Christian faith and how could it be reframed in the light of Biblical scholarship.

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Gladstone's Library on BBC Radio!

10 October 2016

Gladstone's Library on BBC Radio!

Last month BBC Radio Wales’ All Things Considered visited Gladstone’s Library to speak to Warden Peter Francis about what role our Victorian library plays in contemporary life.

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Thomas Pennant: Welsh Naturalist, Explorer, another man before his time!

7 October 2016

Thomas Pennant: Welsh Naturalist, Explorer, another man before his time!

Our founder, William Ewart Gladstone, was not the only famous figure connected to Flintshire. Thomas Pennant, a famous polymath, naturalist and traveller of the Eighteenth Century, was born and lived in Flintshire.

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Reading Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day

13 September 2016

Reading Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day

Ask someone to name a Virginia Woolf novel and they may well mention To The Lighthouse or Mrs Dalloway. Night and Day, Woolf’s second novel published in 1919 – a copy of which can be found in the Annex – probably won’t come up in conversation unless you are talking to someone who is a dedicated Woolf reader. Night and Day isn’t what you might expect of her. Think of Woolf and the word experimental comes to mind. It’s also somewhat longer than some of her later novels. This is early Woolf, on the way to breaking with convention and doing things differently, but not there yet.

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A blog from Gladfest Festival Director, Louisa Yates

13 September 2016

A blog from Gladfest Festival Director, Louisa Yates

On Sunday 4th September, at approximately 5pm, I was the lucky recipient of a bout of applause. Over 80 people showed their appreciation in the usual way for two-and-a-bit days of Gladfest, our now annual fixture where the brightest stars of the literary firmament come to Hawarden. If I do say so myself, that applause was especially well deserved this year. Gladfest has always been good but there was an energy about it this year that really made it one-of-a-kind.

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