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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 7h

🎄 Enjoy a festive Christmas Lunch from Tuesday 1st December to Sunday 20th December (12pm – 2:30pm) at Gladstone's Library! For more information and to book, please visit our website (link is in the first comment, and our bio) or call 01244 532350 🎁

A photo of a bust of William Gladstone decorated in a Christmas hat and a garland. A Christmas cracker is positioned in front of the bust, with a hand off to the side pulling the other end.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you would like to learn more about our Engagement and Learning project, please visit our Website (link is in our bio!). If you work with or support young people and would like to get involved, please get in touch by emailing engage@gladlib.org!

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We work with a wide variety of organisations, including schools, sixth forms, youth groups and universities. Some of our favourite sessions have been: ✉️ Introduction to Gladstone's Library 🕰️ English Language over time 🤝 Human Rights and Gladstone 🏛️ Faith, Democracy and Politics

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Since September 2025, we have delivered over 78 engagement sessions and events, as a part of our Engagement and Learning Programme! These have included: 🐰 Family fun days ✍️ All-day events 📚️ Individual sessions (often with schools) 🌙 Evening Events (often with youth and community groups!)

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are looking to recruit a Kitchen Assistant to join our Food for Thought team. You will work 20 hours per week, at £12.71 per hour, in shifts across any day of the week including weekends. Visit our website -> About Us -> Work at Gladstone’s Library for the full Job Description and how to apply.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did you know?... Gladstone's Library has an on site restaurant, Food for Thought, which is open 7 days a week! Open to the public from 10am-5pm each day, our team offers a delicious array of menus for brunch, lunch, treats and afternoon tea. For our residents, we also serve breakfast and dinner.

A person is tucking into a bowl of apple, walnut and feta salad.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a beautiful part of our collections, and can be found in our annex. It may be just the inspiration that you need to plan your grand design! 📙

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The author was a famous architect who restored medieval landmarks in France, like Mont St. Michel. His work was a major influence on the Arts and Crafts Movement.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you have ever dreamed of building your own home from scratch, then this may be the book for you! 💭 ‘How to Build a House’, (1876) is translated from the French edition, written by M. Eugène Viollet le Duc. This book is an ‘architectural novelette’ that covers all aspects of building a house.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Autumn might be just around the corner, but it's been bright and sunny here in Hawarden! If you were here...what would your dream day at Gladstone's Library look like?

An image of the entrance to Gladstone's Library, in front of a bright blue sky. There are purple flowers lining the path. A woman is walking towards the entrance.

The left exterior of Gladstone's Library, in front of a bright blue sky. The image includes the Reading Rooms wing of the library, and the Victorian weather vane.

A large statue of William Gladstone. on the grounds of Gladstone's Library, in front of a blue sky.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit our website (link is in our bio!).

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Learn together, discuss together and eat together at Gladstone’s Library, and enjoy sessions including on the role of imagination and renewed mysticism and on the under-rated benefits of middle-of-the road moderation and the Board Church tradition.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Join us for this weekend course exploring the theme of doubt as it is expressed in the Bible, by eminent figures in church history and in poetry and literature.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At a time of simple slogans and certainties, in religion as much as in politics, this residential course champions doubt, nuance, ambiguity and open-minded uncertainty.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are still some tickets available for our upcoming course: Blessed are the Doubters, with Rev Canon Dr. Andrea Russell and Professor Ian Bradley!

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Enjoy 15% off your 2026 stay at Gladstone's Library! To celebrate the completion of our historic roof restoration, book to stay between the 21st September and 21st December and receive 15% off your accommodation! Visit our website and use code CELEB15 at checkout to claim your discount. T&Cs apply

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📣 Now Hiring: Events, Conferences and Marketing Administrator (12-Month Fixed Term) 📣 Salary: £23,500pa Contract: Full-time (34.5 hours per week) role for a fixed 12-month period Application deadline: Friday 25th September at 1pm Please visit our website for full details and how to apply.

A poster with the background of the building of Gladstone's Library framed by flowers. Along the top reads 'Work With Us!'. The text reads: Now Hiring: Events, Conferences and Marketing Administrator
You will work across the breadth of the library to deliver strong administrative support for our group bookings and events programme. We are looking for someone with an eye for detail, excellent communication skills, who is highly organised and proactive. This a full-time (34.5 hours per week) role for a fixed 12-month period with a salary of £23,500pa. www.gladstoneslibrary.org/about/work-at-gladstones-library/

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This event will run for approximately 2 hours and will include an interval halfway. You are welcome to join us for a post-event two-course dinner in our Food for Thought restaurant. You can do this by purchasing the event + dinner ticket on our website (Link is in our bio!).

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🍂 CORRYN invites us to join her on a mythic journey into Autumn with her major new piece, A Walk In The Woods, which will be premiered at this event. She will also be bringing us the poignant plight of the Moon In Chains, the poetic tale of The Maiden of the White Vine, and more...

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📖 Following her sold-out December 2024 performance of Tales for Midwinter and the Festive Season, Mellt the Storyteller returns to Gladstone’s Library in her new incarnation as CORRYN, this time to enthral us with Magical Tales for the Season of Mists.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Join us at Gladstone’s Library for an enchanting afternoon with storyteller CORRYN, Spinner of Stories, Weaver of Worlds! 🕸️ 🕷️

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For more information and to book tickets, please visit our website (link is in our bio!

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🐦‍⬛ From Marguerite Duras’s fly, whose bumping around against a window is a kind of writing, to the calligraphic bird photographs of the Spanish photographer Xavi Bou, she will look at how the world talks to us, before sharing something of her current and recent work.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

☔️ In her talk, Laura will explore, the ways in which the rhythms of the world comfort us: the roll of the seasons, the breaking of waves or the falling of rain. Drawing attention to the ways the world tells us that we are part of it, she will think about how we might start to frame an answer.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

...Why not write as if we were part of it? Why not talk about belonging in the world? We are in fact up to our necks in it!’

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tickets are still available for our Talk, Writing the World from the Inside, with Laura Beatty! Join writer Laura Beatty for an evening of considering how the world talks to us. As she says, ‘when we write about the world, we tend to write about it from the outside, as if we were just observers...

An advertisement for a talk at Gladstone's Library. The text reads 'Writing the World from the Inside, a Talk with Laura Beatty, Writer in Residence 2026. 22nd September, 7pm - 8pm, tickets from £18. To purchase tickets, visit our website'. There is also an image of Laura Beatty, and her book. Looking for Theophrastus.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For more information and to book, please visit our website (link is in our bio!). 🎁

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Booking is essential. You can book a Christmas Lunch by completing an order form (available online or at Reception) and returning it to us. A non-refundable deposit of £10 per person is to be paid at the time of booking.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Bookings for Christmas Lunch 2026 are now open! 🎄 🍽️ Enjoy a festive Christmas Lunch from Tuesday 1st December to Friday 20th December (12pm – 2:30pm).

An advertisement for Christmas Lunch at Gladstone's Library. The text reads 'Christmas Lunch at Gladstone's Library. Bookings are now open! 1st December - 20th December 2026. Pre-booking essential. £10 deposit per person. For more information and to book, please visit our website!. The images show two people enjoying a Christmas roast, and a Christmas Pudding next to a Christmas tree.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Following her stay as Writer in Residence, Alison Binney has written a wonderful blog post about her experience staying with us, while reflecting on the importance of libraries. To read Alison's blog post in full, please visit our website (link is in our bio!)

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For more information and to book tickets, please visit our website (link is in our bio!).

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you are interested in exploring poetry for the Church’s year further, this public lecture is part of a weekend residential course, Times and Seasons: Poetry for the Church’s Year. Course attendees automatically receive access to this public lecture.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Works discussed will include the early ‘Dream of the Rood’, the lyrics of George Herbert, the sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the more recent poetry of Denise Levertov, R.S. Thomas and Louise Glück.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📖 This lecture will explore the creative tensions between divine inspiration and human agency, between faithful assertion and spiritual questioning, in a wide range of devotional poems in English.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🕊️ Join Professor Helen Wilcox for this public lecture on the poetic inspiration associated with the Holy Spirit. What are the sources of inspiration for devotional poetry? How do poets balance their dependency on these with the employment of their own artistic skills?

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tickets are still available for our public lecture, 'Come Holy Ghost': Inspiration and Artistry in Devotional Poetry, with Professor Helen Wilcox!

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For more information and to book tickets, please visit our website (link is in our bio!).

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🕊️ The feast of Pentecost will feature in a special public lecture ‘Come Holy Ghost’: Inspiration and Artistry in Devotional Poetry’ by Professor Helen Wilcox, exploring the poetic inspiration associated with the Holy Spirit. This is automatically included in course attendees’ tickets.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🌿 Drawing on poetry from across the centuries, and taught in seminars which encourage discussion, this course will open up fresh imaginative perspectives on the church’s ‘Times and Seasons’ and offer plentiful resources for prayer, meditation and preaching.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🗓️ Beginning with the first period of the liturgical calendar, Advent, the sessions will proceed through Christmas, Lent, Passiontide and Easter, ending with poetic responses to occasional festivals as well as the everyday spiritual experience of ‘ordinary time’.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Tickets are still available for our course, Times and Seasons: Poetry for the Church's Year, with Professor Helen Wilcox and Reverend Canon Dr. Judith Maltby! 📖 This three-day course will consider the church’s year as explored and expressed in the rich tradition of devotional poetry in English.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

From everyone here at Gladstone's Library, we thank Garfield Weston for their support!

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This model has ensured that their charitable donations have grown as the businesses have grown, enabling the Foundation to award grants totalling nearly £1.7 billion since its establishment. The most recent financial year 2024-2025 saw the Foundation give away almost £130 million to 2,967 charities.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Established by W. Garfield Weston in 1958 through an endowment of shares in the family business – now known as Associated British Foods plc – the Foundation continues to be guided by the Weston Family. The Trustees, each direct descendants of the founder, play an active, informed role in its work.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family founded grant-maker supporting charities operating in a wide variety of sectors across the UK that make a positive difference within their communities.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Andrea Russell, Warden of Gladstone’s Library, said: ‘Garfield Weston’s help will make a huge difference to the Library as we complete vital roof restorations to our Grade I listed building. It is fabulous to receive this support at such a crucial time in the Library’s life.’

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📣 Garfield Weston Foundation is kindly supporting Gladstone’s Library’s core costs in 2026/27 - Mae Sefydliad Garfield Weston yn cynorthwyo gyda chostau craidd Llyfrgell Gladstone yn 2026/27 📣 @westonfdn.bsky.social

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🖌️ Or, if you just want to pop by and see what we have in store, there are free, drop-in activities taking place throughout the day. See you there! 🎉

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Our Gladfest Literary Festival is taking place TOMORROW! 📢 We can not wait to see you in our talks, in our creative workshops, grabbing a bite to eat in Food for Thought, and more. 🎟️ If you still want to join us, a limited run of tickets will be available on the door for each of our talks!

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The books were sent to the restorers (Green's Books) a few months ago and we are delighted to share that they have now been fully restored. They will be back at the Library later this month. Thank you to everyone who donated, and a special thanks to Green's Books. Green's Books: buff.ly/kvD0yFI

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Bookbinding and conservation studio in the West Midlands

A family-run bookbinding and conservation studio in the West Midlands. We pride ourselves on our knowledge of bookbinding history.

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