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Thank you all so much for organising such a wonderful weekend of Lister insights (and still they keep coming !) and for making it all so very warm and welcoming.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The industrial revolution changed the textile industry completely. After being acquired by Halifax Corporation in October 1868, the Piece Hall was converted from its original role as a cloth trading hall into a general wholesale market” on 17 June 1871, serving fish, game,

The interior courtyard of the Piece Hall in Halifax, West Yorkshire in the 1930s when it operated as a wholesale fish, fruit, and vegetable market. Built in 1779 as a trading centre for handloom weavers selling woollen "pieces" of cloth. From 1871 until the early 1970s, it served as a bustling wholesale and retail market for produce and fish. After falling into disrepair and undergoing a major restoration, it reopened as the cultural, shopping, and events venue it is today. A fascinating story.

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m looking forward to a few hours of Anne Lister analysis this weekend!

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Packed with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Anne Lister Research Summit is this Saturday & Sunday! Drop in for one session or settle in for the whole weekend. 🎟️ Virtual & free: www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

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Packed with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This weekend: Secrets & scandal, Anne Lister and Ann Walker on the page & screen, music, anatomy, geology, community, and a little mischief... 🎟️ Virtual & free to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had a lovely time up there in 2022, though carrying my small dog up the deeper steps was challenging (as was the whole climb, to be honest!).

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A good number of passerines flitting so fast in the hedgerows as I drove slowly by that a non-expert like me couldn’t identify them apart from the blackbird in the verge. Very nice!

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We need a German noun for the sheer contentment occasioned by both your cats choosing to do this on the sofa.

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I like the woman on the right’s marketing strategy - wares clearly on display!

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Packed with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anne Lister could have simply studied book to learn about anatomy, but of course for Anne, that wasn't enough. So she took the scalpel into her own hands. Join Susanne Piotrowski to learn more about her secret dissection lessons in Paris. www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Eight starlings and two sparrows, all getting along quite nicely perched on wet telegraph wires.

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Packed with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Caves, mines, and rocky depths... Join Stephanie Sobczak to trace Anne Lister's underground visits through the journals, and find out which sites you can still explore today. www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish I could join this one!

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Packed with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anne Lister coded her relationships, raw opinions, and local gossip in a cypher she called her 'crypthand.' But that wasn't the only code she had. Join #AnneListerCodeBreaker Marlene Oliveira to learn more about how it was built (and later cracked). #AnneListerSummit

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’d have chosen the birds and flowers!

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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Autumn is here and it feels like the ideal time to remind you of the absolute importance of keeping your dog on the lead when you are in areas where nature is at risk of being disturbed. Film from Borys Kala - Polish Society for Nature Conservation

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lone crow flying across a pale blue early sky.

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Packed with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Go behind the scenes of "Langton," a forthcoming gothic film about Anne Lister backed by Screen Australia, with screenwriter Jennifer van Gessel. Bring your questions for a live Q&A, facilitated by Sarah Wingrove.https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-lister-research-summit-2026-tickets-1994505243875

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Packed with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On this day in 1840, Anne Lister died at Koutais, in Georgia, aged 49. For today's anniversary we've made her a Victorian mourning card with the maxim she loved best, borrowed from Edward Young's Night-Thoughts: "For human weal, Heaven husbands all events."

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Packed with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Miss Threlfall swindled Anne Lister's friend Miss Pickford out of thousands to fund her West Indies plantations, and violated the 1807 abolition act to do it. Join Anna Clark on what this case reveals about slavery in Lister's world. www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

😆 I’m not alone, then!

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Four starlings all puffed up on a telegraph wire (are they still called that?

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Packed with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For Anne Lister, travel was paramount. For today's 'Lister Sisters,' travelling in her footsteps is just as significant. Join @sazwingrove.bsky.social to explore queer pilgrimage across time, from Lister to us. www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lone magpie on the apex of the garage roof, backlit by an ethereal golden pale blue sky.

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A robin on the sopping wet path.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🧵The spelling shew (and past participle shewn) was standard across British and American English through the 18th and early 19th centuries. By the mid-19th century British English largely standardised around show and shown, phasing out shew and shewn in mainstream writing, This example

This is the historic waiting room doorway at Goathland Station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in North Yorkshire, Image Stephen McKay. CC BY-SA 2,0

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Packed with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Three new books on Anne Lister & Ann Walker, one roundtable! Hear from "Searching for Ann Walker," "Going to Italy," and "Anne Lister of Shibden Hall" on the research, the choices, and what's inside, facilitated by Janneke van der Weijden. www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Two ceilings, their house, and autumn on its way. 🙂

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lovely photos. I’m curious about why the red on the Herdwicks; I’ve seen yellow on other breeds at show time. Is it just tradition?

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Housemartins - lots - at the beach! There’s some high-roofed buildings by the pier that they’ve made their homes in.

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anne Lister Summit! Do join in - it’ll be great!

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Three or four housemartins! I thought they’d all left.

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Half a dozen swallows on my walk around the village. Distinct absence of housemartins here, after spotting loads a couple of days ago (at the house, none for 4 or 5 days).

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Perfectly demonstrating how swifts and hummingbirds are related! 🥰

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

They said they were going so they went! My lovely parents were like that, anyway, but at least we had a car to go in!

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She was supremely talented, and has done untold good. How sad.

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Crikey - a nurse per baby!

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Not any day, but surely a Monday 😆

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Staffordshire Wildlife Trust @staffswildlife.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It may have rained but we're still in drought. Recent hot weather has led to devastating fires affecting wildlife. Please help protect wildlife by: - Packing a picnic, not a BBQ - Fully extinguishing cigarettes - Taking all litter home - Never setting fireworks off in the countryside

A warning sign about high fire risk showing a person walking through a burnt landscape with instructions to call 999.

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The back, forth, back, forth of adult housemartins to two nests that you’d think were cheeping if you didn’t occasionally see a little HM gape begging for food!

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Especially when you (probably) haven’t had a bath for weeks 😀

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is an inappropriate, credulous & politically biased BBC headline. The claims about savings will be sharply contested. News reports should not imclude what reads as an ediorial endorsememt in the headline www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A crow on the rim of the bird bath.

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On secondment from the Rovers Return.

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Does this count? Three hummingbird hawkmoths at a trough full of red salvias. I felt surrounded!

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We had housemartins that just went about their business as usual, and a woodpigeon on top of a telegraph pole probably trying to figure it all out! Great photo.

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Lynn @lynnshls.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

70, 80, even 100 housemartins. Loads and loads, and they were impossible to count. One landed on the roof above our three nests. I don’t know why they all came, but it felt like a miracle! The optimist (or greedy) in me hopes they were scouting for next year!

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you’re struggling to get hold of special eclipse glasses, then you can always look at the shadow it produces through a colander. This worked well for us last time.

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