Join us for a fun-filled day of activities for all ages! Get creative and celebrate The National Year of Reading through our activity trail across the grounds and building of Gladstone’s Library. 🗓️ Thursday 20th August 🕑️ Drop in from 10am-2pm 🎟️ Free. Register your interest on our website!

📣Now Hiring: Housekeeping Assistant Location: Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, North Wales Salary: £12.71 per hour This is a flexible, zero-hours role, providing cover during busy periods, holidays and staff absence. Weekend working will be required, with occasional bank holidays. 1/2

August at Gladstone’s Library is packed with fun! Gladfest Community Fun Day 🗓️ Thursday 20th August 🕑️ 10am-2pm Enjoy an exciting range of activities celebrating The Year of Reading! Free, drop-in. Register your interest on our website to help our planning!

🗓️ Stay with us on Friday 28th or Saturday 29th August 🎟️ Receive two complimentary tickets (per person) from our programme of speakers and our evening musical performance! 💻️ Book online at buff.ly/9qakRWr or call 01244 532350 (we will get in touch to arrange your complimentary tickets)

...Did you know? Here at Gladstone's Library, our Food for Thought restaurant serves a delicious Sunday Lunch... every Sunday! To book a table, you can contact our Reception on 01244 532 350, or visit our website for more information (link is in bio!).

We are delighted to invite Edward Foster for a musical performance and illustration workshop at this year's Gladfest, taking place Saturday 29th August! 📖 🎨 Artist, author, musician and teacher Edward Foster is a visionary artist whose work is known and collected worldwide.

A huge congratulations to Anthony Shapland from all of us at Gladstone's Library, for his Wales Book of the Year 2026 win! Anthony's novel, A Room Above A Shop, was the English Language overall winner. Congratulations / Llongyfarchiadau! 🎊

📣 Gladstone's Library Scholarships: Last Chance for Applications!📣 The submission period for scholarships to be taken in 2027 closes at 11.45pm BST today (Monday 3rd August 2026). For details on the 23 scholarships available and how to apply go to our website -> Scholarships and Residencies.

We are thrilled to announce a new young writer’s competition as part of our Gladfest 2026 month-long festival! 💭 We are asking young people to write us a story about their favourite possession, and they could win some amazing prizes!

We are delighted to invite Matson Taylor to speak at this year's Gladfest, taking place Saturday 29th August! 📖 🏛️ Matson Taylor grew up in Yorkshire but now lives in London. He is a design historian and academic-writing tutor and has worked at various universities and museums around the world.

📢 Introducing our Gladfest Writing Competition! 📢 As part of our Gladfest 2026 month-long festival, we are championing new voices, emerging talent, and writers who are yet to be published. ✉️ Age: 18+ 💰️ Cost: £7 per entry 🧾 Length: up to 5000 words

At the stunning Gladstone’s Library in North Wales, join us for a jam-packed day of talks, musical performances, drop-in workshops, activities and exhibitions, food and more! We bring together beloved voices, emerging talent and passionate readers for a day of stories and conversation.

📢 Book your tickets now for our Course: Beginning Biblical Greek with Very Reverend Professor Gordon Mcphate. 📖 Gordon will guide you through 12 sessions using texts from the Gospels and also from Genesis.

📢 Book your tickets now for Writer in Residence 2026 Anthony Shapland's Masterclass: Gleaning: Writing Place and Plot 📢 ✍️ In this writing masterclass with Writer in Residence Anthony Shapland, explore a process Anthony calls Gleaning, a way of navigating ideas through writing games!

📣We are seeking an experienced and commercially aware Finance and Business Manager (full-time, £38,000 per annum) to join our Executive Team and play a key role in the strategic and operational leadership of the organisation. Deadline: 27th July @ 10am Go to About Us -> Work at Gladstone's Library

We are delighted to invite Dr Abdul-Azim Ahmed to speak at this year's Gladfest, taking place Saturday 29th August! 📖 Dr Abdul-Azim Ahmed is Deputy Director of the Islam-UK Centre at Cardiff University, where he is part of an interdisciplinary team researching contemporary Islam.

Join us TOMORROW for a fun-filled day of activities for all ages! Travel along our story trail through the grounds and building of Gladstone’s Library, finding new activities along your journey. With clay model making, sun printing, badge making, mini book making, and more!

📢 Book your tickets now for Writer in Residence 2026 Anthony Shapland's talk: How did I get Here? 📢 🌍️ In his talk Anthony will build on the question ‘how did I get here?’ as a starting point, a narrative that invites reflection and thought about privilege, labour and luck.

🎟️ Tickets are now available for our Gladfest Literary Festival, taking place on 29th August! 🎟️ This year, Gladfest is a month-long celebration of everything we do. Our Literary Festival will include four talks from incredible authors, as well as a talk from our Warden and Head of Collections.

We are delighted to invite Sheena Kalayil to speak at this year's Gladfest, taking place Saturday 29th August! 📖 Sheena has released four novels, including her most recent release, The Others, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction this year.

📣 New: The Mary McCullen Scholarship, awarded for any piece of work, broadly interpreted, that reflects Gladstone’s vision of relations between Britain and Ireland ✨️One week scholarship ✨️Competitive application scheme ✨️Deadline 3rd August Visit our website to apply!

📖 Gladfest Literary Festival: Tickets Now Available!📖 🗓️ Saturday 29th August 2026 🕑️ 10am-9pm 🎟️ Full Gladfest Ticket: £130 (includes all events, lunch, dinner and refreshments) 🎟️ Day Only Ticket: £100. (includes the day-time programme, lunch and refreshments)

General Notice: We are closed today (Monday 6th July) for our Founder’s Day event. We will reopen as normal on Tuesday 7th July at 9am. Thank you!

New: The Peter C. Erb Scholarship in Nineteenth-Century Studies in honour of the Canadian academic Peter C. Erb One-week scholarship for an early career postgraduate researcher or academic working on 19thC British studies or the relationship between Church and State. APPLY NOW!

Did you know? Gladstone's Library is a residential library! We have 26 bedrooms, an on-site restaurant and a comfortable guest lounge and residents can access our silent Reading Rooms from 9am-10pm 7 days a week! 🗓️ Book today by going to our website and clicking 'Rest'.

Is the Law Really on Our Side? A young people’s Q&A with the first female President of the UK Supreme Court, the Right Honourable the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE. 🗓️ Mon 6 Jul 🕑️ 10am-12pm 📍 Gladstone's Library 📖 For ages 16-24 🎟️ Free tickets here: buff.ly/Fw4uXaZ

📣 Gladstone's Library Scholarships: Applications for 2027 Now Open!📣 - Two new scholarships - 23 scholarships available - Go to our website -> Scholarships and Residencies for information and to apply APPLY NOW! Applications close at 11.45pm on Monday 3rd August 2026.

📣We're Hiring: Reading Room Assistant You will work front of house in the Library’s busy Reading Rooms in a team of four. This part-time role is front-facing and includes lots of interaction with the public. Visit our website to apply. Application deadline: 7th July at 10am.

There are still morning tickets available for Gladstone Umbrella, a friendly and engaging conference dedicated to William Ewart Gladstone, the Victorian statesman affectionately known as the “Grand Old Man”.

📢 General Notice 📢 Due to our Alibis in the Archive crime writing festival taking place this weekend, the Reading Rooms will be closed from Friday 5th June - Sunday 7th June. We apologise for the inconvenience.