Drawing Blood Q&A, week 10 - who can we see in the original drawings?
by Louisa Yates | Friday, 23rd July 2021
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 9 - what made you choose these drawings?
by Louisa Yates | Thursday, 15th July 2021
Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we've been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 8 - did the Victorians find these sorts of political cartoons funny?
by Louisa Yates | Friday, 09th July 2021
Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we've been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 7 - who would have been enjoying these drawings when they were first printed?
by Louisa Yates | Thursday, 08th July 2021
Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we've been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 6 - who drew the Victorian cartoons?
by Rhian Waller | Thursday, 27th May 2021
Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we've been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 5 - where did you get the original cartoons from?
by Louisa Yates | Thursday, 27th May 2021
Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we've been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 4 - what do you want this project to achieve?
by Rhian Waller | Thursday, 27th May 2021
Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we've been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 3 - who is involved in the project?
by Louisa Yates | Thursday, 27th May 2021
Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we've been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 1 - how did this project get started?
by Louisa Yates | Wednesday, 19th May 2021
Ahead of the launch of our new collaborative art project, we've been talking to the artist, Simon Grennan.
Gladstone's Library goes digital with the Gladstone Bag
by Louisa Yates | Wednesday, 11th November 2020
A new online space for Readers and Friends.
From the Archives...do you still send Christmas cards?
by Rhian Waller | Friday, 13th December 2019
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.
From the Archives...The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie
by Rhian Waller | Monday, 01st April 2019
Many of our patrons will know that in January 2018, the Library embarked on a three-year project externally funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York under the title of Digital Gladstone. The project aims to fully digitise and catalogue 15,000 nineteenth-century manuscript letters and 5,390 annotated printed books.