A Week of Welsh before my Gladstones Library residency by Vanessa Gebbie

3 September 2013

A Week of Welsh before my Gladstones Library residency by Vanessa Gebbie

Not content with a whole month in this lovely place, I decided to have a week here busily engaged in learning Welsh, before my residency officially began. Thus it was that the intrepid Mr Gebbie and I

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On Liberties: Victorian Liberals and their legacies by Alex Middleton

21 August 2013

On Liberties: Victorian Liberals and their legacies by Alex Middleton

The first weekend of July saw an eclectic mix of doctoral students, early career scholars, and permanent post holders, from a range of institutions across the UK and the USA, converge on Gladstones Library…

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A 'Queen of the Left Hand of England' by Muriel Maufroy

6 August 2013

A 'Queen of the Left Hand of England' by Muriel Maufroy

You never know what you might discover when looking through the shelves of Gladstones Library. In the room which contains the whole collection of the books Gladstone originally donated over 30,000 v

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What Do You Do There? A Day in the Life at Gladstones Library by Greg Garrett

26 July 2013

What Do You Do There? A Day in the Life at Gladstones Library by Greg Garrett

Greg Garrett writes about his current stay at Gladstone’s Library, what the library means to him, why he keeps coming back, and what he does here!

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Professor A.C. Grayling Founders Day Lecture

24 July 2013

Professor A.C. Grayling Founders Day Lecture

Gladstones Library welcomed Professor A.C. Grayling to the Library as part of its Founders Day celebrations this month. As part of the days events he gave a lecture on The necessity of a liberal education…

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Five Years in a Protestant Sisterhood & Ten Years in a Catholic Convent by Muriel Maufroy

10 July 2013

Five Years in a Protestant Sisterhood & Ten Years in a Catholic Convent by Muriel Maufroy

The title is certainly intriguing. Intriguing too is the fact that Gladstone clearly read this autobiography (the author remains anonymous) carefully, as attested by his many pencil written annotations.

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The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors by Muriel Maufroy

9 July 2013

The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors by Muriel Maufroy

There is no way to come to terms with the Holocaust, but how it would have affected the faith or the lack of faith…
Introducing the Timeline Project by Gary Butler

28 June 2013

Introducing the Timeline Project by Gary Butler

The usefulness of books constantly changes over time. While library buildings remain fixed as permanent structures, the collection of books within them are always in a state of flux. Reorganising lib

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Facts and Opinions about Judaism by Muriel Maufroy

24 June 2013

Facts and Opinions about Judaism by Muriel Maufroy

That different people may at times hold completely opposite opinions on a specific subject, appealing in both cases to large audiences, is strikingly evident to anyone browsing through the shelves of

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History Revisited by Muriel Maufroy

21 June 2013

History Revisited by Muriel Maufroy

To accept that our views on historical matters need examination and possibly re-evaluation is certainly a challenge, but a rewarding one. This is exactly what Fergus Nicolls book, Gladstone, Gordon an

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