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Writers in Residence 2025: Revealed!
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...
Opening Hours from January 2025
Meet the Neighbours - a blog by author Sarah Smith
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."
Open Doors Is Back
Seeking a spirituality for the environmental crisis
Gladstone’s Doctors
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