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Fostering knowledge of Anne Lister’s undaunted life and extraordinary writing; working to relay and interpret her legacy (Prof Laurie Shannon posting).

🎩 https://english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lister-society/index.html
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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
November 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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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 [email protected] for the Zoom details.

Image courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service, SH:7/ML/E/26/1/0010
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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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!
October 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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🖤 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].
September 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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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…
September 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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🎉 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! 📚✍️
annelisterforum.bsky.social Anne Lister Forum @annelisterforum.bsky.social · Sep 1
We’re thrilled to launch the Anne Lister Forum, a new initiative to support graduate and early career
research relating to Anne Lister’s life and writing! First meeting coming October 2025…
September 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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📢 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.

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#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
July 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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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.
CFP with caricature of a throuple on a sofa: a man in the middle between two women with breasts more or less exposed 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
July 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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🌈 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’
June 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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! ⤵️
May 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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🎉 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! 🙌🏻
searchingforann.bsky.social In Search of Ann Walker @searchingforann.bsky.social · May 20
Today is not only Ann Walker's birthday, it's also the 5th anniversary of In Search Of Ann Walker being formed.

Thank you everyone for following us across social media and being supportive.

We look forward to the next five years of researching Ann!
May 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Hey Toronto, come chat with me on 8 June
photos of Emma Donoghue and Natalie Davey and Rebecca Davey of Ceres Productions
May 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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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! 🎉
April 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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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!
March 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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⚡️🎩 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! ⤵️

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February 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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💫 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! 🖤
robinmbernstein.bsky.social Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social · Feb 2
I want to make sure all the Lister Sisters and Misters know about this upcoming conference! It could be a great place to share research on #AnneLister, #AnnWalker, et al. sinisterwisdom.org/lesbianlives...
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Lesbian Lives 2025 | Sinister Wisdom
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February 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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📣 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 ⤵️
January 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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🚨 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
January 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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💫 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...

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January 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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🎉 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! 🎩🪶
January 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM