A Day Out of Office: CyMAL Basic Archive Skills

2 July 2015

A Day Out of Office: CyMAL Basic Archive Skills

Gladstone’s Library intern Catherine Chorley chronicles her archiving training day at CyMAL: Museums, Archives and Libraries Wales.

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A Look at the Collections: Unconscious Crime by Joel Peter Eigen

9 June 2015

A Look at the Collections: Unconscious Crime by Joel Peter Eigen

Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London by Joel Peter Eigen, which can be found in the Annex at Gladstone’s Library….
Spirit of the Library by our April Writer in Residence Pascale Petit

23 April 2015

Spirit of the Library by our April Writer in Residence Pascale Petit

Outside it there’s been a pageant of woodpeckers, jays, woodpigeons, blue and great tits, jackdaws and squirrels, in the yew and silver birch. The window, and its twin in my ensuite bathroom, is the first thing I noticed about the room.

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Some Thoughts On Retreating a blog by Sarah Butler (Writers in Residence 2015)

24 February 2015

Some Thoughts On Retreating a blog by Sarah Butler (Writers in Residence 2015)

I write this approaching the end of my two week residency at Gladstone’s Library. It is labelled a residency, but I have treated it perhaps more as a retreat.

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Work Experience by Betty Cribb

13 February 2015

Work Experience by Betty Cribb

Work Experience at Gladstone’s Library   February 9th, Monday 2015.   Reflecting back on the day I have learned many new things such as…
Work Experience by Alice Jones

13 February 2015

Work Experience by Alice Jones

Work Experience Have you ever felt the sheer joy of opening a book and entering a new world? I have… Monday 9 February 2015…
Work Experience by Megan Parry

13 February 2015

Work Experience by Megan Parry

Work experience at Gladstone’s Library A week in the role of a librarian ________________________________________________________ My name is Megan, and like every other A Level…
The Art of Bookbinding, by Lauren Christina Holmes

6 November 2014

The Art of Bookbinding, by Lauren Christina Holmes

Within the first month of my internship, Siân (one of the previous interns) had embarked upon a day-long bookbinding course. Although I’d spent much of my life around books, as silly as it seems, the thought had never occurred to me that some books were made by human hands. I rather expected all books nowadays to be stamped into existence by a great, clunking, efficient machine. I thought that hand-bound books belonged to the centuries before industry charged into towns and cities and made flesh hands idle and cold metal grind.

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My expectations... were surpassed by the reality

6 November 2014

My expectations... were surpassed by the reality

Cathy Grimmer won a competition through Writing Magazine to attend our micro literary festival Hearth. Here’s what she thought…

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My summer at Gladstone's Library by Ffion Bailey

16 September 2014

My summer at Gladstone's Library by Ffion Bailey

The books, history, and most of all the people, made my time at Gladstone’s Library truly unforgettable. During my summer university break I asked to volunteer with the Library’s digitalis

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