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Gladstone's Library
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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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Today, we remember all those who have suffered and continue to suffer because of war. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.
A hand holds a poppy in front of the Gladstone's Library building.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🎄Book your table for our two- or three-course Christmas Lunches from 1st to 21st December 2025!🎁

Every day from 12pm to 2:30pm (1st-21st December only), tuck in to a delicious menu of starters, mains, desserts and beverages in our Food for Thought restaurant.

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Over a photo of a table laid for Christmas Lunch is the same text as is written in the caption. Plus www.gladstoneslibrary.org | enquiries@gladlib.org | +44 (0)1244 532350 A menu reading: 2 courses: £28.95 (under 12s: £15), 3 courses: £31.95 (under 12s: £18). It lists starters, mains, desserts and beverages. You can find this information at www.gladstoneslibrary.org/bistro/
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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🌿Ever wondered what’s down the steps at the back of our garden? Though this area is out of bounds for visitors, these photos offer a sneak peek...

Once overgrown, it’s now a thriving kitchen garden with chard, tomatoes, rhubarb & more, thanks to our amazing volunteers!
A Gardening Volunteer stands with two watering cans in hand at the bottom of a set of steps in the garden. The kitchen garden of multiple raised beds, trees and a bench. The Warden and a Gardening Volunteer walk around the kitchen garden A Gardening Volunteer working in the kitchen garden
October 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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📣 Two new tickets released!📣 Join writer and podcaster Caroline Crampton for a one-day masterclass. Learn how to weave personal journeys into works of creative non-fiction, balancing structure, pacing, and material for maximum impact.

🗓Sat 8 Nov '25
🕓10.30AM-3PM
🎟️£70

Our website to book!
A photo of author Caroline Crampton and a picture of her books 'A Body Made of Glass' and 'The Way to the Sea'. The logo of Gladstone's Library is in the top right corner. Text reads: Book your tickets for: Masterclass: Putting Yourself on the Page with Caroline Crampton, Saturday 8th November 10.30AM-3PM, Tickets: £70.
October 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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The first piece of restoration work has started on the Library's chimney!

A huge thank you to the team involved for days spent erecting scaffolding and for the work that has gone into the process so far. We hope you are as delighted as us to see this brilliant work beginning!
The accommodation wing of Gladstone's Library with scaffolding up and over the roof. A chimney at Gladstone's Library with scaffolding around it. In the background is a view across trees and a nearby Church. A chimney at Gladstone's Library with scaffolding around it shows signs of restoration work.
October 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Mae’n bleser gennym rannu’r adroddiad effaith ar gyfer ein prosiect peilot 15 mis gyda’r Gronfa Dreftadaeth, sy’n canolbwyntio ar ymgysylltu a dysgu gyda phobl ifanc rhwng 16 a 24 oed.

Darllenwch ein hadroddiad llawn ar ein tudalen Newyddion Diweddaraf!
A page of the report mentioned in this post, listing sessions that were delivered to young people during this project, and feedback from the young people.
October 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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As the days grow colder and the nights draw in, why not cosy up by the fire at Gladstone’s Library? This December, enjoy 20% off your accommodation!

🛏️Single, twin, double rooms plus our suite available
💻 Book your December escape now — link in bio!
A poster with the Gladstone's Library building in snow, a cosy bedroom, people sitting on sofas by a fire, fairy lights above the Reading Rooms and a table set for Christmas lunch. Text reads: Why not book a cosy December getaway at Gladstone’s Library? With 20% off accommodation bookings for December 2025! Book now at gladstoneslibrary.org
October 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Been at the @gladlib.bsky.social this week to get work done on my #JohnAubrey book. This place is so conducive to writing. I feel a million miles from my normal life and all its distractions.
October 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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I climbed Snowdon last week so was entranced to find this 1864 account by Helen Gladstone, age 15 @gladlib.bsky.social; ‘we set off at 1/2 past 8 and drove 22 miles… from there we ascended Snowdon with the help of four rather bad ponies; such a long way up, and so hot. At the top we had some tea- 🗃️
October 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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I was really delighted to speak about #NecessaryWomen to an attentive and enthusiastic audience at @gladlib.bsky.social yesterday! Today it was full tilt research looking at as many files as I could during my last day of archives consultation. Phew!
Chapel, a bright modern room with white walls and wooden chairs, images of bookshelves at front and a presentation screen, with audience gathering for talk Library laminated sign ‘These cushions are for the books! Please do not sit on them. Please ask at the enquiry deal if you would like a people-cushion for your chair’
October 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Thoroughly enjoyed my week at @gladlib.bsky.social.

Strongly recommend to anyone wanting to do some reading, writing or just pondering, in the stillness and companionable quiet of a Grade 1 listed reading room, surrounded by Gladstone’s own books.

Great food too.
An Edwardian library reading room, with shelving, wooden desks, armchairs and a wooden gallery above. An Edwardian building of red stone with a central section and two wings on the left and right.
October 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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📣We’re hiring!

Join the Gladstone’s Library team as Events, Conferences & Marketing Assistant. Support events, group bookings, social media & marketing and general administration.

📖£23K/year | 🕑34.5 hrs/week | ✨Apply by 27 Oct 10am

For details, click the link in our bio!
A photo of an audience member at an event holding a microphone. Overlayed is the Gladstone's Library logo and the text: 'WORK WITH US! Now hiring: Events, Conferences and Marketing Assistant. Applications close 27th October at 10am. Click the link in our bio or go to our website for more details.'
October 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Happy birthday to us! It's October 14th - and 123 years ago, Gladstone’s Library was officially opened by Earl Spencer as the National Memorial to W.E. Gladstone. 🎂

The books in this image date back to that time.
A leather chair in a nook between bookshelves. The books are from the Gladstone collection so they are 100+ years old.
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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📖Befriend a Book 2024: the books are back!

Thanks to Greens Books & 14 generous donors, our 150-year-old treasures have been repaired and restored.

Donors can now visit their befriended book and learn about the restoration process!

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'Before' and 'after' photos of a collection of books. The before photo shows tattered books, some with missing covers. The after versions are beautifully restored.
October 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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📸 We love to see photos taken by guests! Enjoying the quiet Reading Rooms, dining in Food for Thought, chatting in the Gladstone Room, and strolling our grounds.

This lovely group visited over the summer and shared their “gorgeous” experience.
Credit: Bountiful Blessings Travel
A group of friends sit on a bench outside the Gladstone's Library building. A group of friends sit with a meal and wine in the Food for Thought restaurant. A person site on a comfy armchair in a circle of armchairs, surrounded by bookcases filled with books. A group of friends sit around a table in the Gladstone Room playing a card game.
October 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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My desk this week researching in @gladlib.bsky.social archives - some nice stuff today on Women’s Liberal Federation split over suffrage in 1892, when Catherine Gladstone was President.

Still time to book on my #NecessaryWomen talk on Thursday! www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/talk-n...
A desk with laptop, file, paper and pencil, lamp, book on book cushion, pile of books. Bookshelves in background Over an image of Mari Takayanagi and her book is text that reads: 'Book your tickets for: Necessary Women: The Untold History of Parliament’s Working Women with Mari Takayanagi, Thursday 9th October 4-5pm, Tickets: £10,
October 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Exhausted after my first day researching in the @gladlib.bsky.social archives! Learning lots about the Gladstone family women. Also being very well-fed…
Laminated sign ‘Desk reserved for viewing Archives and Special Collections’ Big slice of carrot cake with a half strawberry perched atop
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I have arrived at @gladlib.bsky.social ! Very much looking forward to spending the next week here thanks to the Daisy Ronco Scholarship. If you’re in the area on Thursday come and hear my #NecessaryWomen talk!
Me standing in front of a majestic stone building with green lawn Over an image of Mari Takayanagi and her book is text that reads: 'Book your tickets for: Necessary Women: The Untold History of Parliament’s Working Women with Mari Takayanagi, Thursday 9th October 4-5pm, Tickets: £10,
October 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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The sun has made an appearance for this Autumnal view of Mr Gladstone’s Library @gladlib.bsky.social
Statue of WE Gladstone on lawn in front of the Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden
October 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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📣Applications for our Youth Engagement Volunteer role closes on Wednesday! You'll support our new, two-year Learning and Engagement project funded by @SNForg, engaging with young people, supporting workshop set up and take down, and carrying out research. Training provided. Link in our bio!
4 photos shown: 1st - school children sat on the grass at Gladstone's Library, 2nd - a table with books laid open on cushions, 3rd - the Theology Room with tables holding books laid open on cushions, 4th - school children sat in a semi-circle looking at a board. Text over-top reads 'New Youth Engagement Volunteer Role Open for Applications!'
October 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Join novelist and poet Joanna Miller for a one-day masterclass packed with practical tools on research, editing, and bringing characters and settings to life.

🗓Sat 11 Oct '25
🕓10.30AM-3PM
📍Gladstone’s Library
🎟️Tickets £70

Visit our website -> events to book
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A photo of author Joanna Miller and a picture of her book 'The Eights'. The logo of Gladstone's Library is in the top right corner. Text reads: Book your tickets for: Masterclass: Ways into Historical Fiction with Joanna Miller. Saturday 11th October 10.30AM-3PM, Tickets: £70
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Exciting news coming soon! Roof & building restoration work has begun at the Library.

We’re open as usual! You may notice some scaffolding, noise, or limited parking. Keep up to date via our social media and our website. Residential guests will receive relevant email updates.
A poster reads: 'Roof and building restoration work at Gladstone’s Library. October 2025 to May 2026. Planned restoration work at the Library will begin from October 2025. There may be some disruption, scaffolding, additional noise, and limited parking onsite. Thank you for your patience during this time. For updates, visit our News page or follow us on social media. Relevant notices will be shared with residential guests before their stay.'
October 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Join novelist and doctor Selali Fiamanya as he explores connections between art and science. From Chekhov to Adam Kay, see how doctor-writers blur the line between fact and fiction.

🗓Tue 7 Oct '25
🕓7–8PM
🎟️Tickets from £18
Visit our website -> events to book your ticket.
A photo of author Selali Fiamanya and a picture of his book 'Before We Hit The Ground'. The logo of Gladstone's Library is in the top right corner. Text reads: Book your tickets for: Talk: Beyond Science vs Art with Selali Fiamanya. Tuesday 7th October 7-8PM, Tickets: from £18.
September 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🌷Our gardens are often admired for their blooms, borders & perfectly pruned trees🌳

Who has the green fingers at Gladstone’s Library? Our amazing volunteers!

Here they are in action—clearing paths, pruning trees & tending the kitchen garden.
One of our volunteers is holding a spade over a wheelbarrow, uncovering a hidden path. A volunteer is cutting back a small tree that sits in a border of trees and bushes. A volunteer is holding two watering cans at the bottom of a set of steps. Around her are large trees and small bushes. A border of plants and shrubs, with large trees in the background and a blue sky.
September 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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We have grounds work taking place (mainly outside the building) from Monday 29th September until Friday 3rd October. There may be some disruption and noise, and parking will be limited.

Thank you for your patience. We look forward to telling you some exciting news soon!
Poster reads: GENERAL NOTICE: Grounds work taking place Monday 29th September-Friday 3rd October. There may be some disruption and additional noise. Parking onsite will be limited. Thank you for your patience and support.
September 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM