Drawing Blood Q&A, week 3 - who is involved in the project?

27 May 2021

Drawing Blood Q&A, week 3 - who is involved in the project?

Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we’ve been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.

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Drawing Blood Q&A, week 2 - what inspired the title of the project?

19 May 2021

Drawing Blood Q&A, week 2 - what inspired the title of the project?

Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we’ve been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.

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Drawing Blood Q&A, week 1 - how did this project get started?

19 May 2021

Drawing Blood Q&A, week 1 - how did this project get started?

Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we’ve been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.

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A Spring Message from Gladstone's Library

9 March 2021

A Spring Message from Gladstone's Library

It gives me great pleasure to say, “We are really  looking forward to welcoming you back”.

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A New Year's Message from Gladstone's Library

25 February 2021

A New Year's Message from Gladstone's Library

The latest newsletter from the Library’s Warden, Peter Francis.

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A Christmas Message from Gladstone's Library

27 January 2021

A Christmas Message from Gladstone's Library

Dear Friends,

I am writing this sitting alone in Gladstone’s Library pondering this fading year and wondering what the next year will bring. Will the vaccine give us hope of a return to normality? 

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A Covid-19 update from the Library's Warden, Peter Francis

3 October 2020

A Covid-19 update from the Library's Warden, Peter Francis

Writing this is like reaching out to friends you haven’t seen in a long time…

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On Running and Writing by Charlotte Higgins

5 April 2020

On Running and Writing by Charlotte Higgins

I have an antagonistic relationship with “writing tips” – the ones you find on literary blogs or on Twitter or in newspapers (including, on occasion, the one for which I work, the Guardian).

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From the Archives...do you still send Christmas cards?

13 December 2019

From the Archives...do you still send Christmas cards?

Before the reign of Queen Victoria no one in Britain celebrated Christmas in the way we do today. There were no Christmas crackers, no one had heard of Santa Claus and no Christmas cards were sent. During the reign of Victoria, from 1837 onwards, the wealth of printing inventions and technologies of the industrial revolution meant that the face of Christmas changed forever.

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In colour: King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra’s visit to Gladstone’s Library

10 December 2019

In colour: King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra’s visit to Gladstone’s Library

Early sepia-drenched photographs of Gladstone’s Library I have seen are curious. They are strange portals into a familiar but unfamiliar world. They can also be a bit like dusty moths, lifeless and flattened in the pages of history. I wanted to (amateurly) try and put a bit of colour in one.

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