🖤 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].

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…

🎉 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! 📚✍️

📢 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

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.

🌈 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’

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! ⤵️

🎉 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! 🙌🏻

Hey Toronto, come chat with me on 8 June

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! 🎉

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!

⚡️🎩 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

💫 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! 🖤

📣 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 ⤵️

🚨 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

💫 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)

🎉 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! 🎩🪶