Being Together Alone - by author Guy Stagg

2 December 2022

Being Together Alone - by author Guy Stagg

I knew from the start where I wanted to sit…  So, each day I made sure I was the first person to arrive, occupying the spot before anyone else could claim it.

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Dyslexia Awareness Week 2022 Part Two - Using the Reading Rooms

6 October 2022

Dyslexia Awareness Week 2022 Part Two - Using the Reading Rooms

British Dyslexia Association Dyslexia Week 2022 is this week! It runs until Sunday 9th October, with the theme of ‘Breaking Through Barriers’. 

Using the Reading Rooms if you have Dyslexia. Part two of a two-part series by James. 

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Dyslexia Awareness Week 2022 Part 1 - Working With Dyslexia

6 October 2022

Dyslexia Awareness Week 2022 Part 1 - Working With Dyslexia

British Dyslexia Association Dyslexia Week 2022 is this week! It runs until Sunday 9th October, with the theme of ‘Breaking Through Barriers’. 

Having dyslexia and working in a library could seem a bit of a contradiction – after all, one of the best-known symptoms of dyslexia is a difficulty with spelling, reading, and writing. However, Reading Room Assistant James has other opinions…

Part one of a two-part series by James. 

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(Re)introducing the Inklings

5 August 2022

(Re)introducing the Inklings

Reading Room Assistant Louise Roberts has uncovered documents that offer a fascinating insight into the broader circle around the Inklings and events at Gladstone’s Library…

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The Ladies of Llangollen

28 June 2022

The Ladies of Llangollen

For this Pride Month’s blog we’d like to highlight something from the archive; a letter from Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, otherwise known as the Ladies of Llangollen. 

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A Room of One's Own by Sarah Watling

9 June 2022

A Room of One's Own by Sarah Watling

“At Gladstone’s, I don’t waste so much time working my way back into the world I left at my desk the last time I was there. To paraphrase ee cummings, here I can carry my book with me. I carry it in my head. I am never without it.”

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A Glance At the Letters of Lady Mary Glynne

26 May 2022

A Glance At the Letters of Lady Mary Glynne

Gladstone’s Library holds a valuable collection of letters written to Lady Glynne after 1800 that I had the privilege of viewing whilst researching a society that met in Chester in this period [1]. The picture that emerged, brief highlights of which are set out here, made it more than worth the while.  

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Judging Books By Their Covers

25 May 2022

Judging Books By Their Covers

By Thomas Moss I have the pleasure of working at Gladstone’s Library for five weeks as part of a university work placement. I’m a second-year…
On Keeping Moving by Rebecca Watts

20 May 2022

On Keeping Moving by Rebecca Watts

“For anyone aspiring to write the kind of poems that might reveal the movements of the imagination in words, the challenge is to keep moving.”

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Royal Reminiscence

18 May 2022

Royal Reminiscence

With the Queen’s Jubilee around the corner, members of the Hawarden community have been discussing Hawarden links to the Royal Family. Here, Warden Peter…