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Mike 👨🏻‍🌾 · @scrutans
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Another year, another retreat with my cell group at Gladstone's Library. it's a difficult one this time for me, now humanist, couldn't bring myself to join them in the chapel this morning.

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Rickard Sisters · @RickardSisters
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If you’re lucky enough to live in or near North Wales, we’ll be sharing some insights into our work and our creative process on 21 March at Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, Flintshire.

If you’re unlucky enough *not* to live in or near North Wales, you can watch it online too.

🎟️ gladstoneslibrary.org/events/e

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Rickard Sisters · @RickardSisters
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A writer’s-eye view of the beautiful Gladstone’s Library in North Wales. It’s an amazing gothic building with a cafe/restaurant and residential rooms, so you can eat, sleep and live books! @bookstodon

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Occasional Vlog · @occasionalvlog
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To celebrate the time of year, the library is decked out accordingly, though it might be said that the sitting room is a little more obvious with its decoration.⁠
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Occasional Vlog · @occasionalvlog
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For those who might not have heard of Gladstone the British Prime Minister, you may have come across the bag associated with his name. These days we associate these bags with doctors of yesteryear⁠, but the origins are more focused on politics and some clever marketing.⁠
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Occasional Vlog · @occasionalvlog
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Waking to a rather chilly winters morning it was time to see what this building looked like in the daylight, and although the atmosphere is a little played down, it is now possible to take in more of the detail of the building with a lot of intricate detail in the stonework. And I guess the weather was doing its part to give the place a slightly foreboding presence.⁠
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Occasional Vlog · @occasionalvlog
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A quick look from outside before heading off to bed, and although this is not the original corrugated iron building that ⁠Gladstone transported those first books to, this imposing gothic-style building that was opened in 1902 makes for a much more suitable home for the library.⁠
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Occasional Vlog · @occasionalvlog
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One final look down at the main library floor before we head down the rather narrow and particularly creaky stairs, and I suspect that dark evenings are by far the best time to take in the atmosphere of this place.⁠⁠
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Occasional Vlog · @occasionalvlog
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Like something out of Hogwarts, these reading room areas are truly magical, especially at night when the only light is that from the lamps that are dotted around this room.⁠
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Occasional Vlog · @occasionalvlog
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More opportunities to take in the magical atmosphere that this place exudes from every book. Even if you're not a book worm the peace and tranquility present here is enough to warm any soul.⁠
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Occasional Vlog · @occasionalvlog
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A wander upstairs and we find the real gem of this place, the "reading rooms", which actually refer to the nooks that are located between each set of bookcases 📚️. From up here, you get a great view of the main library itself.⁠
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Occasional Vlog · @occasionalvlog
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To say this library has grown since Gladstone made his initial donation is an understatement, and even in this newer building there isn't room for all of the books 📚️. So if you can't find what you're looking for it's worth trying the annex and seeing what they have filed away in there.⁠
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Occasional Vlog · @occasionalvlog
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Heading back into the main part of the library and it's literally books 📚️ from floor to ceiling, and because many spend hours, even days in here researching, there are plenty of comfortable seats and little nooks to study in.⁠
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Occasional Vlog · @occasionalvlog
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The library consists of a number of collections, starting with the books 📚️ that Gladstone himself donated, many of these focused on theology and religion, history and politics, and literature and literary culture. These are housed across many rooms and reading rooms, with some subjects, for example, the Islamic faith, being provided with their own reading room.⁠
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Gladstone was passionate that his personal library 📚️ should be accessible to others and before his death in 1898 he started the process that has led to the library we have today. Legend has it that once a building, made of corrugated iron, had been constructed, he personally, at the age of 80 years, helped to move the books that he was donating, over 20,000 of them, from his castle to the library, with only the help of his valet, and one of his daughters.⁠
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Daniel · @danielstroud
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It will never ever not be funny to me that the toilet in Gladstone’s library has only one bit of art hanging in it, and that the one piece of art is a picture of D’Israeli. Even a century and a half removed the trolling of one another continues!

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Katharine Rogers - author · @KatRogers
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Thinking back to this summer, when taking a break away at Gladstone's Library to work on the novel melded with family history research 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Melanie · @melizjs
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@Dtwo is definitely going on my to-visit list! 📚 🦉

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Melanie · @melizjs
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@Dtwo is that ? Gorgeous 📚

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