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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride! 🌈 On this ver. fine day, 1817: ‘A fine day the pleasantest we have had this year — & the 1st I have thrown aside my winter things having changed my black cloth spencer & black straw hat for a black silk spencer & common straw hat — I have almost made up mind always to wear black.’ ~ AL

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

📢 Summer Fellowships at York! Excited to announce that applications are now open for York’s Summer Interdisciplinary Research Fellowships based at Heslington Hall. Come visit us for up to a month this June, July or August. #18thCentury (1/2) 🔗 docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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Summer Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship scheme (SIRF) Humanities Research Centre, Heslington Hall, University of York Overview The Humanities Research Centre at the University of York invi...

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Anne Lister Forum @annelisterforum.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

After a bit of a hiatus for our Anne Lister Society Conference roundtable, we’re back with another Forum meeting! Join us on 27th May from 17:30-18:30 to talk about Lister’s letters. Email annelisterforum@gmail.com for the Zoom link. Image courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive, SH:7/ML/A/12

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🖤 The location of Anne Lister’s grave in Halifax Minster has been lost since 1879. On the 185th anniversary of her burial, our Finding Anne collaborative launched a new website showing the state of research — we now have good reason to 𝓞𝟧+𝟥 [hope] we have found her. 🖤 annelisterintheminster.com

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Caroline Gonda (she/her) @liederfollower.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Open access copy of Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to 'Gentleman Jack', co-edited by the wonderful Chris Roulston and me www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

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Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Decoding Anne Lister

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

👉 Check out this wonderful British Museum blog introducing the “Sapphic” sculptor Anne Damer (1748/9-1828) — by Caroline Gonda (whose superbly nuanced work on Anne Lister needs no introduction in the Listerverse!) 🎩🎉

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

🎉 Thrilled to announce the 5th Ann-e-versary program(me) for our mtg, 3-4 Apr 2026!!! We welcome old friends & new, as the Listerverse expands to offer new knowledge & interpretations of her life & writing! 🖤 english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lis… (Ticketing details will be forthcoming!)

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

❄️“ye ground white w[i]th snow y[i]s morn[in]g — some fly[in]g snow show[e]rs dur[in]g ye day — fine aft[ernoo]n & ver[y] fine ev[ening] — ver[y] sharp frost — Barom[eter] at Chang[ea]ble — Fahr. 25 1/2 at 9 pm” 🪶Anne Lister, 24 Dec 1817 Ver. fine holidays to all! Here’s to sustaining 𝓞𝟧+𝟥 in 2026🕯️

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In Search of Ann Walker @searchingforann.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

FUNDRAISING 2025 IS COMING Every year In Search of Ann Walker fundraises for a local foodbank just as Ann left £10 to the people of Lightcliffe at Xmas. Starts 24 November 2025 until Xmas Eve, so please give generously if you can. Look out for our fundraising posts with more details

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Anne Lister Forum @annelisterforum.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Pleased to announce our November meeting! Our subject will be ‘Lister and the Body’ and we will meet on Monday 24th November at 6:00-7:15pm GMT. Please contact annelisterforum@gmail.com for the Zoom details. Image courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service, SH:7/ML/E/26/1/0010

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Anne Lister Forum @annelisterforum.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Is there an article, book, or chapter that made you think in a new way about Lister? If you’d like to lead a discussion about a piece of Lister scholarship for the Anne Lister Forum, drop us a message!

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🖤 ANNE LISTER 🪶 (3 Apr 1791 — 22 Sept 1840) Anne Lister died on this day, as far from her Shibden Hall home as she had ever been, æt. 49. 💫 Grateful to all who have revived her singular story — and who amplify her ver. “proud spirit” and lifelong commitment to 𝓞𝟧+𝟥 [hope].

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It’s here!! 🎉 The CfP for the FIFTH ANNE-VERSARY Anne Lister Soc’y Mtg, 3-4 Apr 2026 in Halifax! We seek proposals from scholars & researchers across the Listerverse, on any topic from Anne’s life & times to her afterlives. Due 1 Nov. For more details ➡️ english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lis…

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🎉 The Anne Lister Soc’y is thrilled to relay word of the newly-launched Anne Lister Forum, a project to support grad and early career research on our favorite Yorkshire polymath! Please give it a follow! 📚✍️

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025. 🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections. 🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h... #WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

CFP for Sex in the #19thC (deets in alt) Abstracts (300 words), biographies (100 words), and should be submitted on Monday 22d September 2025 to rrr @ soton.ac.uk. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for a travel bursary, and include your full name, discipline & institution.

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Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century
15th January 2026
University of Stirling, Scotland
Keynote speaker: Dr. Michael Shaw
In The History of Sexuality (1976), Foucault outlines the 'discursive explosion' that occurred around
sex during the long nineteenth century. Sexuality became a distinct personal identity for the first time, as shown in literature and art, and sexual discourses often reflected the period's political and
social anxieties around gender and power. Modern queer theorists first situated their work within
nineteenth-century studies (Eve Kofosky Sedgewick, Between Men, 1985), and recent work in the
field historicises marginalised groups (Jen Manion, Female Husbands: A Trans History, 2020). Sex
encourages us to consider the broader cultural and societal dynamics of the long nineteenth century, and the lasting influence of these structures today.
We invite papers of 15 minutes on the topic of sex in the long nineteenth century (1789-1914) in all its forms and in a global context for our in-person conference. We encourage broad interpretations of the topic and invite submissions that explore its fluid and multifaceted nature. The journal
encourages multi- and interdisciplinary papers from across the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities and invites contributions from those at any career stage, including PGRs and ECRs.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
• Sexuality and queer studies • Women's writing
• Gender, feminism, and masculinities • Sexual health, contraception, and the medical
• Trans studies humanities
• Pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare • Sex work
• Sex scandals in court and politics • Print culture; pornography and Victorian erotica
• Gothic literature • Postcolonial and ecocritical perspectives on
• Decadence; hedonism gender and sex

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

🌈 On this ver. fine day in 1817 Anne Lister wrote: ‘A fine day the pleasantest we have had this year — & the 1st I have thrown aside my winter things having changed my black cloth spencer & black straw hat for a black silk spencer & common straw hat — I have almost made up mind always to wear black’

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Hello, Listerverse! 💫 An online talk about Anne Lister ahead, June 13th, by ALS-presenter Prof Anna Clark! On our Yorkshire polymath, quack doctors, and French academic medicine — details and registration below! ⤵️

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🎉 Happy 5th ANNiversary to @searchingforann.bsky.social — and thank you for all the amazing work and insight you’ve contributed to our knowledge of the Ann(e)s! 🙌🏻

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Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Hey Toronto, come chat with me on 8 June

photos of Emma Donoghue and Natalie Davey and Rebecca Davey of Ceres Productions

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

With heartfelt thanks to our ver. fine speakers, keynoters, session chairs, our partners in Calderdale & ALBW, & of course our ver. fine audience, the 4th Mtg of the #AnneLister Soc’y is a wrap! 🙏 Here’s to the #Listerverse of people working to generate new knowledge about our Yorkshire polymath! 🎉

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

As the Anne Lister festivities begin, Happy Anneversary! 🎩👒🎉❤️ On this day in 1834, Anne Lister underlined it: “Miss W[alker] & I & Th[oma]s st[ai]d the sacram[en]t” — making history together by fulfilling their vows at Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York!

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

⚡️🎩 We’ve got SWAG! Thanks to our amazing friends at ALBW & to mark the 4th Anne Lister Soc’y mtg in Halifax UK in April, we’re thrilled to offer ALS gear on the ALBW merch site below. A new design this year for Anne’s birthday and to celebrate her ver. “proud spirit”! 🎉 Order ahead! ⤵️ shopalbw.com

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

💫 Well, well, well!! The legendary Lesbian Lives conference will be held here in the colonies for the first time in October 2025! Heads-up to the #Listerverse! 🎩 Details below; deadline for paper proposals is 31 March! 🖤

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

📣 CFP for online conference of interest to the Listerverse, given the *absolute centrality* of the archive in preserving Anne Lister’s legacy. "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections”! Women’s History Network! Deadline 29 March; further details here ⤵️

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🚨 Registration for the April Anne Lister Soc’y conference opens at noon NYC time / 5pm Halifax time January 18, when the tix site below goes LIVE! 💫 We look forward to 2 ver. fine days! 🖤 (🎟️ Day 1, 🎟️ reception, & 🎟️ Day 2 ticketed separately) www.ticketsource.co.uk/calderdale-c... 📸 cr: BBC/HBO

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

💫 SHE’S HERE! The Anne Lister Soc’y April program(me)! NEW WORK on AL &: medicine, self-fashioning, travel, writerly craft, & other characters; keynotes on new film project & Anne’s music. Details at link; registration info soon! english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-l... (📸BBC/HBO/LookoutPt)

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The Anne Lister Society @annelistersociety.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

🎉 A Ver. Happy New Year from the Anne Lister Soc’y! 🎉 *Quite* soon we’ll post the slate of speakers & info for our 4th mtg (watch this space!). This New Year’s Day, we look back and thank all our ver. fine presenters, each of whom added new knowledge to the Listerverse at the splendid 2024 mtg! 🎩🪶

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