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by Rhian Waller | Friday, 11th October 2024

We are pleased to announce that Gladstone’s Library has launched a new online bookshop thanks to bookshop.org.

by Rhian Waller | Thursday, 26th September 2024

We are delighted to reveal the names of our 2025 Writers in Residence. 

More than 150 writers applied for the opportunity to stay at the Library for up to a month to work on their next book.

Today, we can announce that the 2025 Writers in Residence at Gladstone’s Library are...

by Louisa Yates | Tuesday, 24th September 2024

From January 2025, Gladstone’s Library will be changing the Reading Room opening hours. 

by Rhian Waller | Monday, 02nd September 2024

"When I visit a new place, I often gravitate towards the local churchyard. It helps me get my bearings, and it’s an obvious choice for someone who writes historical fiction. All the memorials inscribed with dates and places and the graves of people who lived and died here. It’s a good place to start to understand the history of a place."

by Gladstones Library | Tuesday, 27th August 2024

Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, Flintshire is taking part in Open Doors 2024, which takes place on Saturday 14th September.

by Gladstones Library | Wednesday, 21st August 2024

by Gladstones Library | Monday, 19th August 2024

If one walks past the statue towards Gladstone’s Library, one may observe four other sculptures placed in niches around its frontage. These commemorate Gladstone’s four ‘doctors’ - the writers he singled out as the intellectual mentors who guided his thought throughout his life.

An article by Jonathan Hopson

by Gladstones Library | Monday, 12th August 2024

Hope and activism are coterminous, or to use a more natural metaphor, they exist in symbiotic relationship. 

An article by Writer in Residence Karen Lloyd