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A message from Peter Francis, Warden and Director. Dear Friends, It gives me great pleasure to say, “We are really looking forward to welcoming you back”. We aim to re-open on Wednesday 1st September. I wish it could be sooner but we cannot risk an earlier date. NEWS | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY Search by category Search through the Volume archive The latest news and views from the Gladstone's Library blog

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Gladfest is BACK! The UK's friendliest festival will return. Save the date: 11-12th September 2021. Please note that all events in 2021 are subject to change and cancellation. A B&B WITH A DIFFERENCE Gladstone's Library offers quirky boutique B&B rooms in Flintshire, North Wales. Come and stay in our great value, one-of-a-kind library, just six miles from Chester! GLADFEST | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY The UK's friendliest literary festival with no backstage and no green

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A message from Peter Francis, Warden and Director. Dear Friends, It gives me great pleasure to say, “We are really looking forward to welcoming you back”. We aim to re-open on Wednesday 1st September. I wish it could be sooner but we cannot risk an earlier date. NEWS | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY Search by category Search through the Volume archive The latest news and views from the Gladstone's Library blog

GLADFEST 2021

Gladfest is BACK! The UK's friendliest festival will return. Save the date: 11-12th September 2021. Please note that all events in 2021 are subject to change and cancellation. A B&B WITH A DIFFERENCE Gladstone's Library offers quirky boutique B&B rooms in Flintshire, North Wales. Come and stay in our great value, one-of-a-kind library, just six miles from Chester! GLADFEST | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY The UK's friendliest literary festival with no backstage and no green

room!

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What's On Calendar Find out about upcoming events at Gladstone's Library. Our Events are currently on hold for the time being. We will update our calendar shortly with our events for 2021. ALIBIS IN THE ARCHIVE 2020 � 2016, Gladstone's Library. All rights reserved. Gladstone's Library, Church Lane, Hawarden, Flintshire CH5 3DF. Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy | Accessibility

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Food for Thought Our cosy Food for Thought bistro seats up to 50 people in a relaxing setting.. Our Restaurant is currently closed - we will update news of our re-opening in the coming weeks and months. 'It's rare that you get to feed both your head and your belly when you go to a restaurant but that’s exactly how my wife and I felt after we’d popped into Gladstone's Library ’s Food For NEWS | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY Search by category Search through the Volume archive The latest news and views from the Gladstone's Library blog GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY GOES DIGITAL WITH THE GLADSTONE BAG Gladstone's Library goes digital with the Gladstone Bag. by Louisa Yates | Wednesday, 11th November 2020. We are delighted to announce the launch of the Gladstone Bag, a new online space where we can engage with our community.

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A message from Peter Francis, Warden and Director. Dear Friends, It gives me great pleasure to say, “We are really looking forward to welcoming you back”. We aim to re-open on Wednesday 1st September. I wish it could be sooner but we cannot risk an earlier date. A B&B WITH A DIFFERENCE Gladstone's Library offers quirky boutique B&B rooms in Flintshire, North Wales. Come and stay in our great value, one-of-a-kind library, just six miles from Chester! NEWS | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY Search by category Search through the Volume archive The latest news and views from the Gladstone's Library blog GLADFEST | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY The UK's friendliest literary festival with no backstage and no green

room!

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Gladfest is BACK! The UK's friendliest festival will return. Save the date: 11-12th September 2021. Please note that all events in 2021 are subject to change and cancellation. CONFERENCE AND MEETING ROOMS

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Food for Thought Our cosy Food for Thought bistro seats up to 50 people in a relaxing setting.. Our Restaurant is currently closed - we will update news of our re-opening in the coming weeks and months. 'It's rare that you get to feed both your head and your belly when you go to a restaurant but that’s exactly how my wife and I felt after we’d popped into Gladstone's Library ’s Food For ALIBIS IN THE ARCHIVE: TIMETABLE We are sorry to say that, with the greatest regret, we have decided to postpone this year’s Alibis in the Archive.However, such is the popularity of Alibis that we ‘WORDS, WORDS, WORDS': WILLIAM GLADSTONE, 1859 AND ALL THAT ‘Words, words, words': William Gladstone, 1859 and All That. by Elizabeth Newmarch | Tuesday, 31st January 2017. 1859 saw the publication of many literary works. Charles Dickens, for example, began to publish his journal All The Year Round in which Wilkie Collins’s novel The Woman in White would be serialised in the same year, and in the fields of science and natural history, Charles BUILDING A SUSTAINABLY CREATIVE LIFE Programme Friday, 26th May 6pm Welcome and introductions 6.45pm Dinner 8pm Get the One Thing a Day Habit: Starting to Build a Creative Life

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A message from Peter Francis, Warden and Director. Dear Friends, It gives me great pleasure to say, “We are really looking forward to welcoming you back”. We aim to re-open on Wednesday 1st September. I wish it could be sooner but we cannot risk an earlier date. A B&B WITH A DIFFERENCE Gladstone's Library offers quirky boutique B&B rooms in Flintshire, North Wales. Come and stay in our great value, one-of-a-kind library, just six miles from Chester! NEWS | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY Search by category Search through the Volume archive The latest news and views from the Gladstone's Library blog GLADFEST | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY The UK's friendliest literary festival with no backstage and no green

room!

GLADFEST 2021

Gladfest is BACK! The UK's friendliest festival will return. Save the date: 11-12th September 2021. Please note that all events in 2021 are subject to change and cancellation. CONFERENCE AND MEETING ROOMS

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Food for Thought Our cosy Food for Thought bistro seats up to 50 people in a relaxing setting.. Our Restaurant is currently closed - we will update news of our re-opening in the coming weeks and months. 'It's rare that you get to feed both your head and your belly when you go to a restaurant but that’s exactly how my wife and I felt after we’d popped into Gladstone's Library ’s Food For ALIBIS IN THE ARCHIVE: TIMETABLE We are sorry to say that, with the greatest regret, we have decided to postpone this year’s Alibis in the Archive.However, such is the popularity of Alibis that we ‘WORDS, WORDS, WORDS': WILLIAM GLADSTONE, 1859 AND ALL THAT ‘Words, words, words': William Gladstone, 1859 and All That. by Elizabeth Newmarch | Tuesday, 31st January 2017. 1859 saw the publication of many literary works. Charles Dickens, for example, began to publish his journal All The Year Round in which Wilkie Collins’s novel The Woman in White would be serialised in the same year, and in the fields of science and natural history, Charles BUILDING A SUSTAINABLY CREATIVE LIFE Programme Friday, 26th May 6pm Welcome and introductions 6.45pm Dinner 8pm Get the One Thing a Day Habit: Starting to Build a Creative Life

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Please take a moment to read our Covid-19 update. The Reading Room and our collections are currently closed to all visitors and will not re-open until 2021. The Library has suffered severe economic consequences as a result of Covid-19 and is currently operating with a skeleton staff, so we are unable to offer any kind of reader, collection or reprographic service.

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D • Digital Gladstone: Digital Gladstone is an umbrella term under which we can gather all the Library’s efforts to improve access to our online collections. The first major project of Digital Gladstone is externally funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The three-year project began in January 2018 and will result in a fully-catalogued digital collection of 15,000 nineteenth

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CONFERENCE RATES & PACKAGES Rates & Packages Day Delegate Inclusive Package 2021. Hire of meeting/conference room; AV equipment (PC with internet access and DVD player), flip chart and pens ‘WORDS, WORDS, WORDS': WILLIAM GLADSTONE, 1859 AND ALL THAT ‘Words, words, words': William Gladstone, 1859 and All That. by Elizabeth Newmarch | Tuesday, 31st January 2017. 1859 saw the publication of many literary works. Charles Dickens, for example, began to publish his journal All The Year Round in which Wilkie Collins’s novel The Woman in White would be serialised in the same year, and in the fields of science and natural history, Charles BUILDING A SUSTAINABLY CREATIVE LIFE Programme Friday, 26th May 6pm Welcome and introductions 6.45pm Dinner 8pm Get the One Thing a Day Habit: Starting to Build a Creative Life

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READING LIST: POLITICS OF THE MID-TUDOR CRISIS Reading List: Politics of the Mid-Tudor Crisis. by Elizabeth Newmarch | Friday, 01st July 2016. A Reading List for Gladstone’s Library. Bloody Mary, The Life of Mary Tudor— Carolly Erickson (1996). This biography contains information not only on the early life and the short but ruthless reign of Mary I, but the political manoeuvring which took place after the death of Edward V on 16th July INTERVIEW: FIERCE IMAGININGS WITH RACHEL MANN Interview: Fierce Imaginings with Rachel Mann. by Elizabeth Newmarch | Tuesday, 09th May 2017. Rachel Mann has worked as Teaching Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Lancaster University and holds qualifications in Theology and Creative Writing / English Literature.

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A message from Peter Francis, Warden and Director. Dear Friends, It gives me great pleasure to say, “We are really looking forward to welcoming you back”. We aim to re-open on Wednesday 1st September. I wish it could be sooner but we cannot risk an earlier date. A B&B WITH A DIFFERENCE Gladstone's Library offers quirky boutique B&B rooms in Flintshire, North Wales. Come and stay in our great value, one-of-a-kind library, just six miles from Chester! NEWS | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARYGLADSTONE MICHIGAN LIBRARYGLADSTONE MICHIGAN LIBRARYGLADSTONE PUBLIC LIBRARY Search by category Search through the Volume archive The latest news and views from the Gladstone's Library blog GLADFEST | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY The UK's friendliest literary festival with no backstage and no green

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Food for Thought Our cosy Food for Thought bistro seats up to 50 people in a relaxing setting.. Our Restaurant is currently closed - we will update news of our re-opening in the coming weeks and months. 'It's rare that you get to feed both your head and your belly when you go to a restaurant but that’s exactly how my wife and I felt after we’d popped into Gladstone's Library ’s Food For ALIBIS IN THE ARCHIVE: TIMETABLE We are sorry to say that, with the greatest regret, we have decided to postpone this year’s Alibis in the Archive.However, such is the popularity of Alibis that we ‘WORDS, WORDS, WORDS': WILLIAM GLADSTONE, 1859 AND ALL THAT ‘Words, words, words': William Gladstone, 1859 and All That. by Elizabeth Newmarch | Tuesday, 31st January 2017. 1859 saw the publication of many literary works. Charles Dickens, for example, began to publish his journal All The Year Round in which Wilkie Collins’s novel The Woman in White would be serialised in the same year, and in the fields of science and natural history, Charles BUILDING A SUSTAINABLY CREATIVE LIFE Programme Friday, 26th May 6pm Welcome and introductions 6.45pm Dinner 8pm Get the One Thing a Day Habit: Starting to Build a Creative Life

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A message from Peter Francis, Warden and Director. Dear Friends, It gives me great pleasure to say, “We are really looking forward to welcoming you back”. We aim to re-open on Wednesday 1st September. I wish it could be sooner but we cannot risk an earlier date. A B&B WITH A DIFFERENCE Gladstone's Library offers quirky boutique B&B rooms in Flintshire, North Wales. Come and stay in our great value, one-of-a-kind library, just six miles from Chester! NEWS | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARYGLADSTONE MICHIGAN LIBRARYGLADSTONE MICHIGAN LIBRARYGLADSTONE PUBLIC LIBRARY Search by category Search through the Volume archive The latest news and views from the Gladstone's Library blog GLADFEST | GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY The UK's friendliest literary festival with no backstage and no green

room!

GLADFEST 2021

Gladfest is BACK! The UK's friendliest festival will return. Save the date: 11-12th September 2021. Please note that all events in 2021 are subject to change and cancellation. CONFERENCE AND MEETING ROOMS

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Food for Thought Our cosy Food for Thought bistro seats up to 50 people in a relaxing setting.. Our Restaurant is currently closed - we will update news of our re-opening in the coming weeks and months. 'It's rare that you get to feed both your head and your belly when you go to a restaurant but that’s exactly how my wife and I felt after we’d popped into Gladstone's Library ’s Food For ALIBIS IN THE ARCHIVE: TIMETABLE We are sorry to say that, with the greatest regret, we have decided to postpone this year’s Alibis in the Archive.However, such is the popularity of Alibis that we ‘WORDS, WORDS, WORDS': WILLIAM GLADSTONE, 1859 AND ALL THAT ‘Words, words, words': William Gladstone, 1859 and All That. by Elizabeth Newmarch | Tuesday, 31st January 2017. 1859 saw the publication of many literary works. Charles Dickens, for example, began to publish his journal All The Year Round in which Wilkie Collins’s novel The Woman in White would be serialised in the same year, and in the fields of science and natural history, Charles BUILDING A SUSTAINABLY CREATIVE LIFE Programme Friday, 26th May 6pm Welcome and introductions 6.45pm Dinner 8pm Get the One Thing a Day Habit: Starting to Build a Creative Life

in

READING ROOMS

Please take a moment to read our Covid-19 update. The Reading Room and our collections are currently closed to all visitors and will not re-open until 2021. The Library has suffered severe economic consequences as a result of Covid-19 and is currently operating with a skeleton staff, so we are unable to offer any kind of reader, collection or reprographic service.

LIBRARY CATALOGUES

Library Catalogues MainCAT. MainCAT allows users to search every text held by Gladstone's Library. It covers both open and closed access areas. Readers can login using the code found on their library card.

DURING YOUR STAY

D • Digital Gladstone: Digital Gladstone is an umbrella term under which we can gather all the Library’s efforts to improve access to our online collections. The first major project of Digital Gladstone is externally funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The three-year project began in January 2018 and will result in a fully-catalogued digital collection of 15,000 nineteenth

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Digital Gladstone. Gladstone’s Library is committed to improving international public access to all its collections and events. For several years now, the Library has hosted audio recordings of many events, maintained a blog, and improved the website and social media. CONFERENCE AND MEETING ROOMS Conference and Meeting Rooms Our conference and meeting facilities can be hired for a variety of functions. Away days, business meetings, training courses, corporate presentations, product launches, panel interviews, committee gatherings or one-to-one sessions - we can adapt

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CONFERENCE RATES & PACKAGES Rates & Packages Day Delegate Inclusive Package 2021. Hire of meeting/conference room; AV equipment (PC with internet access and DVD player), flip chart and pens ‘WORDS, WORDS, WORDS': WILLIAM GLADSTONE, 1859 AND ALL THAT ‘Words, words, words': William Gladstone, 1859 and All That. by Elizabeth Newmarch | Tuesday, 31st January 2017. 1859 saw the publication of many literary works. Charles Dickens, for example, began to publish his journal All The Year Round in which Wilkie Collins’s novel The Woman in White would be serialised in the same year, and in the fields of science and natural history, Charles BUILDING A SUSTAINABLY CREATIVE LIFE Programme Friday, 26th May 6pm Welcome and introductions 6.45pm Dinner 8pm Get the One Thing a Day Habit: Starting to Build a Creative Life

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READING LIST: POLITICS OF THE MID-TUDOR CRISIS Reading List: Politics of the Mid-Tudor Crisis. by Elizabeth Newmarch | Friday, 01st July 2016. A Reading List for Gladstone’s Library. Bloody Mary, The Life of Mary Tudor— Carolly Erickson (1996). This biography contains information not only on the early life and the short but ruthless reign of Mary I, but the political manoeuvring which took place after the death of Edward V on 16th July INTERVIEW: FIERCE IMAGININGS WITH RACHEL MANN Interview: Fierce Imaginings with Rachel Mann. by Elizabeth Newmarch | Tuesday, 09th May 2017. Rachel Mann has worked as Teaching Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Lancaster University and holds qualifications in Theology and Creative Writing / English Literature. Gladstone's Library | the UK's finest residential library 01244 532350 enquiries@gladlib.org

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Dear Friends,

It gives me great pleasure to say,_ “We are really looking forward to welcoming you back”._ We aim to re-open on Wednesday 1st September.  I wish it could be sooner but we cannot risk an earlier date. The Library runs on very small margins which means we cannot afford to open until we can trade successfully. We will be safer and will lose less money opening when the time is right rather than hurrying to open at the very first opportunity. The one thing we can’t afford to do is to open and then have to close again.  By September, I hope there will be greater confidence for us to travel and resume our busy and creative lives. Already September is filling up with bookings – let’s hope this is not yet another false dawn but with the vaccines and continued social distancing we believe the Library will be safe. In the six months before we re-open we will continue to make improvements to the building. At the moment the builders are in creating four new en-suite bedrooms which means all our guest bedrooms will have their own bathroom.  We are adding new WCs on the ground floor. We are in the process of removing the step outside reception which so many people have fallen down in the past. This will also widen and improve the area around reception. The dining room is going to be refurbished and the food we offer will have a new slant. Our three main seminar rooms will have enhanced digital equipment allowing people to join meetings and events remotely. These changes not only improve what we can offer you but enable and enhance social distancing. We will also take this opportunity to replace our old and increasingly unreliable and outdated fire alarm system and we have already replaced our boilers so our heating will be less erratic and all the rooms will be heated effectively and efficiently. Almost all of our events in the future will be hybrid with some people in the room and others joining remotely. This hugely increases our potential world-wide audience and we’re working towards live-streaming events. Audio and film of past events are already available through The Gladstone Bag (The Bag) on our website, in a Digital Archive that’s exclusively available to Friends. You can find all the information on our blog

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We hope that our  programme in September will start with Gladfest (Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th September), scaled down considerably from previous years but nevertheless providing a range of events with friends old and new. It will be a positive step to let people know we are back. It will give us something to celebrate. Details of other events for the rest of the year will emerge soon. I know those six months will rush by and the five of us, still working here, are not going to waste any of this time. We are all working hard to improve our amenities and ensure we will be ready for your long-awaited return.  There will be changes, we all realise it will not be simply carrying on where we left off but we are determined that the ethos will remain the same and the modifications we are making will  only enhance what we offer and help to ensure your safety. A very big thank you to all those who have given so generously through our Sponsor a Shelf Covid Recovery Scheme. Without your support I am not sure we would have been able to survive. We now need one final push to ensure we have enough funds to do everything we require to ensure your safety before your return and of course to begin to recruit new staff. Please support the Library by sponsoring a shelf if you can.  This will give us and others (an original Easter present?) hope for the future. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT US.

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