Gladstone's Library
@gladlib.bsky.social
A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
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Read, write, rest!
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: Thursday 8th January 2026. Due to a power cut in the area, we currently have no power. The power should be restored by 2.30pm. Check back here for updates.
January 8, 2026 at 12:44 PM
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Thursday 8th January 2026. Due to a power cut in the area, we currently have no power. The power should be restored by 2.30pm. Check back here for updates.
IMPORTANT NOTICE Wednesday 7th January 2026: We are open as normal but have intermittent internet on site. Pop in for lunch, a coffee, or to use our Reading Rooms! For updates, follow us on social media.
January 7, 2026 at 11:46 AM
IMPORTANT NOTICE Wednesday 7th January 2026: We are open as normal but have intermittent internet on site. Pop in for lunch, a coffee, or to use our Reading Rooms! For updates, follow us on social media.
✨We open at 2pm today (Tues 6 Jan)!✨ Gladstone’s Library is a place people come to read, write and rest; to research and retreat; to meet friends and colleagues or enjoy time alone; to attend a course, an event, or simply to have lunch.
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January 6, 2026 at 9:01 AM
✨We open at 2pm today (Tues 6 Jan)!✨ Gladstone’s Library is a place people come to read, write and rest; to research and retreat; to meet friends and colleagues or enjoy time alone; to attend a course, an event, or simply to have lunch.
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We’re the UK's only Prime Ministerial library and one of few residential libraries in the world. With Reading Rooms, restaurant, bedrooms, events, a chapel, sitting room, meeting rooms, and gardens... There's something for everyone.
For more, click the link in our bio!
For more, click the link in our bio!
January 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
We’re the UK's only Prime Ministerial library and one of few residential libraries in the world. With Reading Rooms, restaurant, bedrooms, events, a chapel, sitting room, meeting rooms, and gardens... There's something for everyone.
For more, click the link in our bio!
For more, click the link in our bio!
✨Happy New Year from Gladstone’s Library✨
We send our warmest wishes to all our friends and supporters. Thank you for being part of the life of the Library; for reading, writing, thinking, resting, eating, learning, laughing, conversing, and sharing this unique place with us.
We send our warmest wishes to all our friends and supporters. Thank you for being part of the life of the Library; for reading, writing, thinking, resting, eating, learning, laughing, conversing, and sharing this unique place with us.
January 1, 2026 at 12:02 AM
✨Happy New Year from Gladstone’s Library✨
We send our warmest wishes to all our friends and supporters. Thank you for being part of the life of the Library; for reading, writing, thinking, resting, eating, learning, laughing, conversing, and sharing this unique place with us.
We send our warmest wishes to all our friends and supporters. Thank you for being part of the life of the Library; for reading, writing, thinking, resting, eating, learning, laughing, conversing, and sharing this unique place with us.
We’ve had a busy year in the Reading Rooms! In 2025 you have…
📜 explored 615 folders from our archives
🔍 delved into 242 books from our special collections
📖 cracked open 4500 books from our circulating collections
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📜 explored 615 folders from our archives
🔍 delved into 242 books from our special collections
📖 cracked open 4500 books from our circulating collections
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December 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We’ve had a busy year in the Reading Rooms! In 2025 you have…
📜 explored 615 folders from our archives
🔍 delved into 242 books from our special collections
📖 cracked open 4500 books from our circulating collections
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📜 explored 615 folders from our archives
🔍 delved into 242 books from our special collections
📖 cracked open 4500 books from our circulating collections
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On behalf of the team at Gladstone’s Library may you have a very happy Christmas!
Many of us have a favourite Christmas Carol. Mine is ‘O Holy Night’, especially because of this verse:
O holy night
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Saviour's birth
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Many of us have a favourite Christmas Carol. Mine is ‘O Holy Night’, especially because of this verse:
O holy night
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Saviour's birth
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December 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
On behalf of the team at Gladstone’s Library may you have a very happy Christmas!
Many of us have a favourite Christmas Carol. Mine is ‘O Holy Night’, especially because of this verse:
O holy night
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Saviour's birth
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Many of us have a favourite Christmas Carol. Mine is ‘O Holy Night’, especially because of this verse:
O holy night
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Saviour's birth
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📣 Tickets available for Writing with an Ear to Sound, a Masterclass with David Hendy
📆 17 January 10:30am-3pm | 📍 Gladstone's Library | 🎟️ Tickets £70
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📆 17 January 10:30am-3pm | 📍 Gladstone's Library | 🎟️ Tickets £70
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December 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📣 Tickets available for Writing with an Ear to Sound, a Masterclass with David Hendy
📆 17 January 10:30am-3pm | 📍 Gladstone's Library | 🎟️ Tickets £70
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📆 17 January 10:30am-3pm | 📍 Gladstone's Library | 🎟️ Tickets £70
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Gladstone’s Library is now closed for Christmas and New Year! We reopen on Tuesday 6th January at 2pm and hope to see you then.
December 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Gladstone’s Library is now closed for Christmas and New Year! We reopen on Tuesday 6th January at 2pm and hope to see you then.
🎄We close today (22 Dec) at 10am, and we reopen on Tues 6 Jan at 2pm
As the year draws to a close I want to wish you all a joy-filled Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you for all your support and encouragement. It has been a full year and we have much to be thankful for.
As the year draws to a close I want to wish you all a joy-filled Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you for all your support and encouragement. It has been a full year and we have much to be thankful for.
December 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🎄We close today (22 Dec) at 10am, and we reopen on Tues 6 Jan at 2pm
As the year draws to a close I want to wish you all a joy-filled Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you for all your support and encouragement. It has been a full year and we have much to be thankful for.
As the year draws to a close I want to wish you all a joy-filled Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you for all your support and encouragement. It has been a full year and we have much to be thankful for.
It was wonderful to welcome Hanan Issa back to Gladstone’s Library last week to stay with us during her Artist in Residence visit with Theatr Clwyd in partnership with the Wales Millennium Centre - Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru. Hanan Issa is the current National Poet of Wales!
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It was wonderful to welcome Hanan Issa back to Gladstone’s Library last week to stay with us during her Artist in Residence visit with Theatr Clwyd in partnership with the Wales Millennium Centre - Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru. Hanan Issa is the current National Poet of Wales!
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And here is the view from my desk @gladlib.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
And here is the view from my desk @gladlib.bsky.social
📖 A day in the life at Gladstone’s Library 📖
Step inside the quiet magic of the Reading Rooms, relax in the cosy Gladstone Room, and wander around the Grade 1 listed building (one of only a few in the whole of Wales!). Thank you to @alittlemixofvix for capturing this video.
Step inside the quiet magic of the Reading Rooms, relax in the cosy Gladstone Room, and wander around the Grade 1 listed building (one of only a few in the whole of Wales!). Thank you to @alittlemixofvix for capturing this video.
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📖 A day in the life at Gladstone’s Library 📖
Step inside the quiet magic of the Reading Rooms, relax in the cosy Gladstone Room, and wander around the Grade 1 listed building (one of only a few in the whole of Wales!). Thank you to @alittlemixofvix for capturing this video.
Step inside the quiet magic of the Reading Rooms, relax in the cosy Gladstone Room, and wander around the Grade 1 listed building (one of only a few in the whole of Wales!). Thank you to @alittlemixofvix for capturing this video.
🎁We’ve got the perfect gifts for everyone on your list!
❄️Gladstone’s Library Gift Vouchers
❄️Befriend a Book 2025: help preserve history!
❄️Shop via bookshop.org/shop/gladstoneslibrary
❄️Exclusive Library Merchandise (in person) Link in bio or visit our website!
❄️Gladstone’s Library Gift Vouchers
❄️Befriend a Book 2025: help preserve history!
❄️Shop via bookshop.org/shop/gladstoneslibrary
❄️Exclusive Library Merchandise (in person) Link in bio or visit our website!
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🎁We’ve got the perfect gifts for everyone on your list!
❄️Gladstone’s Library Gift Vouchers
❄️Befriend a Book 2025: help preserve history!
❄️Shop via bookshop.org/shop/gladstoneslibrary
❄️Exclusive Library Merchandise (in person) Link in bio or visit our website!
❄️Gladstone’s Library Gift Vouchers
❄️Befriend a Book 2025: help preserve history!
❄️Shop via bookshop.org/shop/gladstoneslibrary
❄️Exclusive Library Merchandise (in person) Link in bio or visit our website!
📣Calling writers: Gladstone’s Library is offering one funded place on The Six-Month Writing Course with @kitdewaal.com. For writers who would benefit from the course but may otherwise be unable to access it. We especially welcome those who feel marginalised within the industry.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📣Calling writers: Gladstone’s Library is offering one funded place on The Six-Month Writing Course with @kitdewaal.com. For writers who would benefit from the course but may otherwise be unable to access it. We especially welcome those who feel marginalised within the industry.
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And in March, I'll also be giving an evening talk at @gladlib.bsky.social
It will offer the very first sneak preview of my forthcoming book - on the secrets, lives, and tangled lives of Britain's wartime propagandists
Details - and booking - here:
It will offer the very first sneak preview of my forthcoming book - on the secrets, lives, and tangled lives of Britain's wartime propagandists
Details - and booking - here:
Talk: The Secrets, Lies, and Tangled Lives of Britain’s Wartime Propagandists, with David Hendy - Gladstone's Library
The Secrets, Lies, and Tangled Lives of Britain’s Wartime Propagandists, with David Hendy 7pm-8pm, Tuesday 3rd March 2026 Join the writer and broadcaster David...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
And in March, I'll also be giving an evening talk at @gladlib.bsky.social
It will offer the very first sneak preview of my forthcoming book - on the secrets, lives, and tangled lives of Britain's wartime propagandists
Details - and booking - here:
It will offer the very first sneak preview of my forthcoming book - on the secrets, lives, and tangled lives of Britain's wartime propagandists
Details - and booking - here:
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As a 2026 Writer-in-Residence at @gladlib.bsky.social I'm doing a 'masterclass'.
It's on writing about sound: exploring ways to bring a richer sensory dimension to writing for the page and writing for radio.
Details - and booking - available here:
www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/master...
It's on writing about sound: exploring ways to bring a richer sensory dimension to writing for the page and writing for radio.
Details - and booking - available here:
www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/master...
Masterclass: Writing with an Ear to Sound with David Hendy - Gladstone's Library
Writing with an Ear to Sound – a writing Masterclass with David Hendy 10.30am-3pm, Saturday 17th January 2026 Join the writer and broadcaster David...
www.gladstoneslibrary.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
As a 2026 Writer-in-Residence at @gladlib.bsky.social I'm doing a 'masterclass'.
It's on writing about sound: exploring ways to bring a richer sensory dimension to writing for the page and writing for radio.
Details - and booking - available here:
www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/master...
It's on writing about sound: exploring ways to bring a richer sensory dimension to writing for the page and writing for radio.
Details - and booking - available here:
www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/master...
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New blogpost! Read about my visit to the Gladstone Rock and research into the Gladstone women who climbed Snowdon (Yr Wydffa) at the brilliant @gladlib.bsky.social www.gladstoneslibrary.org/blog/the-gla...
The Gladstone family and Snowdonia, by Mari Takayanagi - Gladstone's Library
Dr Mari Takayanagi recently spent a week here at Gladstone's Library as holder of the Dr Daisy Ronco Scholarship (2024-25), for research in the area of
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November 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
New blogpost! Read about my visit to the Gladstone Rock and research into the Gladstone women who climbed Snowdon (Yr Wydffa) at the brilliant @gladlib.bsky.social www.gladstoneslibrary.org/blog/the-gla...
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As an experiment, a goose was once (allegedly) put into a medieval tunnel under #BradenstokePriory. It emerged several miles away, featherless. One of several items of c17 weirdness I discovered while @gladlib.bsky.social & will feature in my next book 📕
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/the-fea...
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/the-fea...
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
As an experiment, a goose was once (allegedly) put into a medieval tunnel under #BradenstokePriory. It emerged several miles away, featherless. One of several items of c17 weirdness I discovered while @gladlib.bsky.social & will feature in my next book 📕
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/the-fea...
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/the-fea...
🎄We’re down to our last remaining tables for Christmas Lunch at Gladstone’s Library🎄
Pre-booking is essential. Go to our website (link in bio), click 'Dine' and follow the instructions listed or pop in to Reception.
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Pre-booking is essential. Go to our website (link in bio), click 'Dine' and follow the instructions listed or pop in to Reception.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🎄We’re down to our last remaining tables for Christmas Lunch at Gladstone’s Library🎄
Pre-booking is essential. Go to our website (link in bio), click 'Dine' and follow the instructions listed or pop in to Reception.
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Pre-booking is essential. Go to our website (link in bio), click 'Dine' and follow the instructions listed or pop in to Reception.
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🎄Christmas is in full swing here in Hawarden! Alice & Beth are in St. Deiniol's Church and Louisa & Izzy are at the Library running free drop-in Glimpse tours at 1.30pm and 2.30pm. Or visit Alice & Beth and pick up our Library quiz to be in the draw for an Afternoon Tea for two!
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🎄Christmas is in full swing here in Hawarden! Alice & Beth are in St. Deiniol's Church and Louisa & Izzy are at the Library running free drop-in Glimpse tours at 1.30pm and 2.30pm. Or visit Alice & Beth and pick up our Library quiz to be in the draw for an Afternoon Tea for two!
🎄 Join us at the Hawarden Christmas Extravaganza tomorrow (Sat 6th Dec)!🎄
Say hello to us at our stall in St Deiniol’s Church and join the festive celebrations at this wonderful community event across the Church and Tithe Barn. Plus see below for Library tour times!
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Say hello to us at our stall in St Deiniol’s Church and join the festive celebrations at this wonderful community event across the Church and Tithe Barn. Plus see below for Library tour times!
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December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🎄 Join us at the Hawarden Christmas Extravaganza tomorrow (Sat 6th Dec)!🎄
Say hello to us at our stall in St Deiniol’s Church and join the festive celebrations at this wonderful community event across the Church and Tithe Barn. Plus see below for Library tour times!
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Say hello to us at our stall in St Deiniol’s Church and join the festive celebrations at this wonderful community event across the Church and Tithe Barn. Plus see below for Library tour times!
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With summer warmth fading into memory, here are 19th Century tips for coping with a heatwave:
"Allow nothing to worry you.”
“Refrain from reading the Debates.”
“Shun public dinners.”
“Walk twice the distance rather than get inside a red-hot oven of an omnibus.”
"Allow nothing to worry you.”
“Refrain from reading the Debates.”
“Shun public dinners.”
“Walk twice the distance rather than get inside a red-hot oven of an omnibus.”
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
With summer warmth fading into memory, here are 19th Century tips for coping with a heatwave:
"Allow nothing to worry you.”
“Refrain from reading the Debates.”
“Shun public dinners.”
“Walk twice the distance rather than get inside a red-hot oven of an omnibus.”
"Allow nothing to worry you.”
“Refrain from reading the Debates.”
“Shun public dinners.”
“Walk twice the distance rather than get inside a red-hot oven of an omnibus.”
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November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you're subscribed to our newsletter, the November edition will now be in your inbox! Or in your Junk... do check!
If you would like to register for our newsletter, to hear our news, upcoming events, offers and more, sign up by going to our website and scrolling to the bottom.
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✏️ Engagement and Learning Programme Update!
In November, over 50 Year 5 students from Hawarden Village School visited us to learn about local Victorian leaders. They viewed collection items and designed their own bookplates, taking inspiration from those in our collection.
In November, over 50 Year 5 students from Hawarden Village School visited us to learn about local Victorian leaders. They viewed collection items and designed their own bookplates, taking inspiration from those in our collection.
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
✏️ Engagement and Learning Programme Update!
In November, over 50 Year 5 students from Hawarden Village School visited us to learn about local Victorian leaders. They viewed collection items and designed their own bookplates, taking inspiration from those in our collection.
In November, over 50 Year 5 students from Hawarden Village School visited us to learn about local Victorian leaders. They viewed collection items and designed their own bookplates, taking inspiration from those in our collection.