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A colourful mug with the writing 'Gladstone's Library is my happy place' is placed on a shelf with a wooden backdrop. Around it is a coaster with a stack of books drawn, a pin badge of a stack of books, a door hanger that says 'shh... I'm reading', a length of green fir branch, and a piece of wrapping paper with a colourful bookcase design. A three-tiered afternoon tea with sandwiches, cakes and scones placed on a wooden table. A damaged book laid on a black surface. The book is torn in two with the spine ripped off. A woman sits in a garden, at a table, reading a book and pouring milk into a teacup.
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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A question on #GladstonesLibrary tabled by Mike Wood on 26-11-2025 has been answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-11-26/94698
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Come with me to finish my thesis research at Gladstone library, the UK’s only residential library 🤓📚👩🏻‍💻 #Wales #library #BookTok #gladstonelibrary #thesis #research #weekendtrip @gladstoneslibrary
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September 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
verabrook.bsky.social
At Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden. Ready to read & write some speculative fiction and meet some fellow writers. ✨✍️✨

#MilfordSF #writer #writerslife #writingworkshop #GladstonesLibrary @milfordsff.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
lemoustier.bsky.social
Writing retreat at @gladstoneslibrary over, but here's a little selection of its intriguing, beautiful & sometimes bizarre books that I (mostly) didn't allow to distract me 📚
Photo grid of lots of 19th century books on shelves with colourful old fashioned covers and a range of tantalising titles : The Cat, Womankind IN Western Europe, A Winter Jaunt To Norway, English Wayfaring Life, Popular Errors Concerning Politics and Religion, Démon Possession and Allied Themes, The Best Books, The Mammoth and the Flood, A Glossary of Obscure Words in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, How The Other Half Lives (shelved next to The Truth About Opium Smoking), Cyprus: Its Cities Tombs and Temples, Tiryns - next to Ilios: City and County of the Trojans, The Henwife, The Funeral Tent of an Egyptian Queen, Letters From Hell, Caliban: The Missing Link.
February 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I wish #gladstoneslibrary were here. There's lots of #writers and book lovers who are probably familiar with the place. I've never been but have a visit planned next month. www.gladstoneslibrary.org
Gladstone's Library | the UK's finest residential library
Read, relax, eat and stay with us at Gladstone's Library. Situated conveniently in North Wales close to Chester with a lively programme of events.
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January 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
grahamcarden.bsky.social
We returned to Gladstone's Library yesterday to pick up our new cards. Sat and read for a while and then had tea and a scone. #GladstonesLibrary
Gladstone's Library interior from the ground floor Gladstone's Library interior from the first floor Gladstone's Library interior from the first floor Gladstone's Library interior from the first floor
January 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
grahamcarden.bsky.social
Today I visited Gladstone's Library for the first time. The quietest library I've ever visited. Going back tomorrow. Can't wait. #GladstonesLibrary
A photo of the the reading rooms at Gladstone's Library in Hawarden, N.Wales. Some of the books in the Islam section of the reading rooms at Gladstone's Library in Hawarden, N.Wales.
January 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
artsonthemove.bsky.social
Get yourself a lovely cup of tea and one of their most fabulous scones... @gladlib.bsky.social #GladstonesLibrary #Hawarden #Chester
gladlib.bsky.social Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · Nov 22
“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”
― Dylan Thomas

The pavements of Hawarden have thawed, but there's still a bit of snow on the fields. Pop over if you want tea after building a snowman!
A snowy scene outside hawarden. It shows a white field framed by snow-covered undergrowth
November 22, 2024 at 9:22 AM
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@_amysumner bound for the final re-visioning of #AboutTime. Looking forward to the focus and warmth I always find there. ❤️ #gladstoneslibrary #amwriting #memoir @ Little Thetford https://www.instagram.com/p/B1DhT1qgg9C/?igshid=1pjy5s4hd92vg
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November 17, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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#amwriting #memoir #AboutTime #gladstoneslibrary @ Gladstone's Library https://www.instagram.com/p/B1IzyJ9AQf1/?igshid=q1134ufpwczk
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November 17, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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Another 8 hrs. Done for now. I *think* it’s stronger. Grateful to @_amysumner always. #amwriting #memoir #AboutTime #gladstoneslibrary @ Gladstone's Library https://www.instagram.com/p/B1MR0RWgHQB/?igshid=nevmds251eyp
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November 17, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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Absolutely lovely day spent at @gladstoneslibrary for a day yoga retreat with @lovinglifeinwellies. Signed up for my Reader's Ticket and access to the reading room.
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Gladstone Library building Gladstone Library interior. Lots of wood and books. High vaulted ceiling. Gladstone Library interior. Lots of wood and books. High vaulted ceiling.
November 16, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Our fabulous volunteer Anna and brilliant Librarian Isobel have drawn up reading lists for our online bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/shop/gladstoneslibrary

They include books you can no longer buy at the Library itself because they sold out!

What would you add to the list if you had a bookshop?
A picture of our in-house bookshop showing copies of Writer in Residence and event speaker books. Some of them are now out of stock but can be bought via our bookshop.org page
October 20, 2024 at 3:00 PM
shloobee.bsky.social
I’ve another story out! Into The Darkness They Go, The Wise and the Lovely was inspired by the @britishfantasysociety’s first writing retreat at @gladstoneslibrary earlier this year, Portraits of Patriarchs is out now! #ShortStory #ShortFiction #Patriarchs #GenreFiction #Horror #Fiction #BookRec
October 7, 2023 at 8:46 AM