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SUMMARY:Alibis in the Archive 2025
DESCRIPTION:Alibis in the Archive\n3pm\, Friday 6th June – 2pm\, Sunday 8th June 2025\nThe North-West’s Crime Weekend is back for another year!\nAppearing at Alibis in the Archive 2025: The British Library talks Crime Classics – – John Curran on Agatha Christie and The Collins Crime Club – – Shelly Dickson Carr remembers ‘My Grandather\, John Dickson Carr’ – – Christina Koning on Cambridge Crime – – Paul Charles talks to Martin Edwards about Colin Dexter – – Caroline England puts the Criminal in Crime – – Alex Pavesi explores metaphysical detective fiction and GK Chesterton. \nFor the full Alibis in the Archive weekend timetable\, please see below. \n  \n\n 
URL:https://dev.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/alibis-in-the-archive-2025/
LOCATION:Library and Grounds\, Gladstone's Library\, Hawarden\, Flintshire\, CH5 3DF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:June 2025 - Tuesday Glimpse
DESCRIPTION:Mini-tour and Glimpse of the Reading Rooms \nAre you curious about the origins of Gladstone’s Library? Would you like a sneak peek at the famous Reading Rooms? \nBuilt more than a century ago\, Gladstone’s Library is one of the hidden gems of North Wales. While the Library is open to day visitors who wish to enjoy spending time in the grounds of this Victorian Gothic landmark\, the Reading Rooms are silent study spaces usually only accessible to registered Readers or residential guests staying here overnight. \nSteeped in local and national history\, this is the UK’s only Prime Ministerial library and a rare example of a residential library. Known originally as St. Deiniol’s Library\, it was renamed in 2010 to reflect its connections with founder and four-times Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. \nBy booking onto a Glimpse\, you will be given a talk about the building\, its purpose\, its links to UK and world affairs and the ways in which it has evolved through time. You will also be able to peep inside the Reading Rooms\, where researchers\, writers and scholars of all kinds come to make use of the extensive collections and to work in silence. \nAll Glimpses last approximately 30 minutes.
URL:https://dev.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/june-2025-tuesday-glimpse/
LOCATION:Gladstone Room\, Gladstone's Library\, Hawarden\, Flintshire\, CH5 3DF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Talk: Writing Yourself Well\, with Caroline Crampton
DESCRIPTION:Writing Yourself Well\, with Caroline Crampton\n7pm-8pm\, Thursday 19th June 2025\nWriting about illness is an entire genre unto itself — memoirs of extraordinary pain and survival against the odds are regulars on bookshop shelves and bestseller lists alike. But what is it actually like to write about your illnesses\, and how can it impact how you feel?  \nIn order to write her book A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria\, writer and podcaster Caroline Crampton spent five years immersed in stories about illness from writers like Philip Larkin\, Charles Darwin\, Virginia Woolf\, Charlotte Brontë\, Jane Austen and many others. Over time\, this intimacy with all of the different ways to be unwell actually began to have a positive effect on Caroline’s own hypochondria and her relationship with her health.  \nBy sharing these literary stories from the past and recounting the techniques involved in crafting her own story\, Caroline’s talk discusses how the ways we read – and write – about our illnesses can impact the way we experience them.  \nCaroline Crampton is a writer and podcaster whose work aims to bring people closer to material they may never have considered approachable before. As she says\, ‘I like to combine autobiography\, deep research\, careful structure and considered prose to produce work that will\, I hope\, inform as much as it entertains or delights’.  Caroline’s first book\, The Way to the Sea: The Forgotten Histories of the Thames Estuary (2019) combines the unusual personal story of her parents’ emigration to Britain on a small boat with travelogue\, history\, literary criticism and a portrait of an unusual landscape. \nHer next book\, A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria (2024)\, is a chronological narrative of health anxiety spanning from the very earliest humans to today. Critics hailed it as a ‘landmark’ book for its examination of what this universal doubt and fear can tell us about life and medicine in every age\, as well as relating Caroline’s own experiences as a teenage cancer survivor who perpetually fears she will be sick again.   Alongside her book projects\, Caroline produces a fortnightly podcast\, Shedunnit (BBC Sounds); each episode looks at an aspect of golden age detective fiction\, covering everything from Agatha Christie’s skill at archaeology to the influence of science on whodunnits.
URL:https://dev.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/talk-writing-yourself-well-with-caroline-crampton/
LOCATION:Chapel\, Gladstone's Library\, Hawarden\, Flintshire\, CH5 3DF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:June 2025 - Friday Glimpse
DESCRIPTION:Mini-tour and Glimpse of the Reading Rooms \nAre you curious about the origins of Gladstone’s Library? Would you like a sneak peek at the famous Reading Rooms? \nBuilt more than a century ago\, Gladstone’s Library is one of the hidden gems of North Wales. While the Library is open to day visitors who wish to enjoy spending time in the grounds of this Victorian Gothic landmark\, the Reading Rooms are silent study spaces usually only accessible to registered Readers or residential guests staying here overnight. \nSteeped in local and national history\, this is the UK’s only Prime Ministerial library and a rare example of a residential library. Known originally as St. Deiniol’s Library\, it was renamed in 2010 to reflect its connections with founder and four-times Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. \nBy booking onto a Glimpse\, you will be given a talk about the building\, its purpose\, its links to UK and world affairs and the ways in which it has evolved through time. You will also be able to peep inside the Reading Rooms\, where researchers\, writers and scholars of all kinds come to make use of the extensive collections and to work in silence. \nAll Glimpses last approximately 30 minutes.
URL:https://dev.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/june-2025-friday-glimpse/
LOCATION:Gladstone Room\, Gladstone's Library\, Hawarden\, Flintshire\, CH5 3DF\, United Kingdom
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