Compare Halifax through the eyes of two remarkable diarists — Anne Lister and Dorothy Wordsworth. www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

Rachel Terry reveals how Halifax’s textile innovations shaped the fashion #AnneLister saw and wore. www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

Halifax station was redesigned during 1884–85 and completely rebuilt with six through platforms a year later. The station opened in two parts. The new station had separate accommodation for LYR and GNR trains; the latter being on the west side

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Before #AnneLister penned *her* journals, her father documented a few misadventures of his own... Meet Ensign Jeremy Lister: soldier, survivor, and subject of this dive into #America250 🗓️ Sat. 18 Oct | 1:20pm ET/6:20pm BST 🎟️ Free: www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

An impressive example of topiary if ever there was one!

Anne Lister didn't think much of this tower at Chatsworth, Derbyshire - it "put us in mind of warehousing" when she visited with Ann Walker in 1835 (it had been erected since her visit there with Mrs Lawton in 1825). Read about Anne's visits to Chatsworth here: www.chatsworth.org/news-media/n...

Tickets are now available for Victorian Mourning at BANKFIELD MUSEUM • HALIFAX, Halifax on Saturday 8th November 2025 at 1:30PM www.ticketsource.co.uk/calderdale-m...

Two women. Two journals. One Halifax. Abi Palmer explores what Dorothy Wordsworth’s newly published Halifax diaries reveal about Anne Lister’s hometown — and how both women shaped our view of it. 🗓️ Sat, Oct 18 | 12:10pm ET/5:10pm BST 🎟️ Free: www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

How exquisite is this?

We’ve got weeks to convince people we elected that we dont want to be the 1st country to lose swifts esp when mandating a brick with a hole as we ‘build baby build’ would secure their homes. Email me at [email protected] to get a template to send to your MP

I can never walk along here without thinking of Anne Lister and M- and their overnight stay here, and visit to the church, in 1825 when on a mini-tour of the Peak District. 🥰

It’s almost that spooky time of year, but my first fleeting thought on catching sight of this stone with two drill holes surrounded by lichen shouldn’t have been one of these 💀!

Gosh - plumicorns!

Our director, Mary Colwell, has written in The Guardian about the uncertain future of curlews and the debate around fox culls. That includes measures to address damaging agricultural activities, habitat loss, disturbance and targeted, evidence based predator control.

How did the mill wheels of Halifax spin fashion forward? Rachel Terry explores how 1830s tech from weaving to fashion plates helped shape style in #AnneLister’s world. 🗓️ Sat. 18 Oct | 10:40am ET/3:40pm BST 🎟️ Free: www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

Shame there weren't a few more lights on, but I like the photo anyway. It gives a good impression of how Anne Lister's Aunts Anne and Martha would have seen their Buxton Hotel, St Ann's Hotel, at night during their stays there in the 1790s and 1800s: www.packedwithpotential.org/profiles/mar...

Discover what it took to get dressed in #AnneLister’s time, layers, silhouettes, and all, in this show & tell session with fashion historian Gemma Esvelt. 🗓️ Sat. 18 Oct | 9:30am ET / 2:30pm BST 🎟️ Free: www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

Want to be a Curlew Ambassador? There is still time to get your applications in! Applications will close on 6 October. Get in touch at [email protected] if you have any questions. buff.ly/nGDW6vj

Swift bricks in every new home? 🏠🐦 Next month the Lords vote on the Swift Brick Amendment—and it’s make or break. Email [email protected] for a template to send your MP. 🔎 Find your MP here www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/ Let’s give swifts a future. ✊

#AnneLister died #OTD in 1840 during her trip in Georgia with #AnnWalker. She was 49 years old. Revisit the start of this adventure and learn more about the events that prompted their departure in 1839 here: www.packedwithpotential.org/stories-arti... #travel #c19th #GentlemanJack

Glorious out today, with the warm sun on my back 🙂

Creepy Dead Moll’s Fingers waving from a rotting branch. 🍄 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

IYKYK 🥰!

All this plastic - ready-made nurdles 😱

On Sunday at 5pm, we will be adding tickets to see our Patron & Ambassador, David Gray, at a UK show of your choice on his 2026 summer UK tour to our Aviva Community Fundraiser! Two donation incentives, each with two tickets to your choice of show, will be up for grabs for £250 per incentive.

If you like #AnneLister and/or all things Regency, and live anywhere near Buxton, note this: buxtoncrescentexperience.com/tour/anne-li... I went on it last year, and it was brilliant! @packedwith.bsky.social @discoverbuxton.bsky.social

The Autumn Anne Lister Summit (18 October) is packed with diverse, and fun, Anne-related events. Attendance is free, and registration is now open!

Swifts: part bird, part sky. Already installed a nest box or brick? Help more swifts! Learn about their lifestyle, threats, and ways to make a difference 👇 sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/swifts-part-bird-part-sky/ 📸 Stunning b&w image: Robert Booth #SwiftConservation #SheffieldSwiftNetwork

Are you studying #AnneLister or looking for new perspectives? Check out our #research references page and find more books, journal articles, thesis, and other academic resources! www.packedwithpotential.org/resources/an... #academia #oneplace #c19th #victorian

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Looking for your next #AnneLister read? Well, then check out our #Book Concierge and check out the list of all books ever written about Anne. 🎉 www.packedwithpotential.org/resources/bo... #books #research #oneplace #c19th

So many locks - what a hassle! And IIRC, at least at one point Anne Lister thought that the railways wouldn’t catch on.

Finally!! Bookmarks. Yes. That's all I ever wanted from you, @support.bsky.team Thank you.

The arboretum was (is!) very lovely 🥰🌳

What’s the Latin for “Scram!”? 😆 Dogs were spoiling drying clay tiles nearly two millennia ago (so glad one did). You’ve gotta love dogs.

In 1830, #AnneLister toured France with Lady Stuart de Rothesay & her daughters. You can now explore this trip in Julie Gonnet's (@annelisterinparis.bsky.social) new map! www.packedwithpotential.org/travel-maps#... #travel #c19th #heritage

A very plain* WW1 and WW2 memorial, very much of its time (erected 1951). *I like it!

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If you're interested in #AnneLister's and #AnnWalker's coats of arms or just into #heraldry, check out this updated article by Lynn Shouls! #research #c19thc #oneplace www.packedwithpotential.org/stories-arti...

Anne Lister scaling the heights, as she so often did. 🧗‍♂️

Don't forget our upcoming webinar on Curlews and Climate Change on 3 September. Find out more and sign up now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-cu...

A Chartist Meeting at Basin Stones, Todmorden, 1842, painting by Alfred Walter Bayes, 1832-1909 (Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council). #NorthernArt

We are thrilled to share the programme for our upcoming seminar series. Please continue to check our socials and our website over the coming weeks as the links to register for each of the seminars are published. We look forward to seeing you all there!

Summer, still, but a sense of some other season around the corner!

Almost monochrome, but not quite. Lovely day by the sea.

Big news from your favourite nerds 💥 #AnneLister #research

Seaside themed cute knitted post box top!

#LocalHistory is an integral part of our research, so we always take any chance we can get to help promote the work of local historians like David Glover. Here is a list of his upcoming events, in case you're in or around #Halifax when they're on. #oneplace #heritage #AnneLister #research

We're also into the #performingarts and #AnneLister, so here's a play written by Helena Whitbread and adapted by Angela Clare: bookwhen.com/nopriestbutl... This event is organized by Holdsworth House and includes a meal, so you're in for a treat for all senses!