£269pp
​JOIN US ON OUR HOSTED GROUP TOUR
"IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ANNE LISTER"
As we spend the weekend exploring the life & loves of Anne Lister
Our journey takes us to Halifax, Shibden Hall, Bankfield Museum
​& York including entry to Fairfax House & the Holy Trinity Church 
PLUS MORE!
Anne Lister's School
Manor School, York. Anne Lister's school where she met Eliza Raine
Blue Badge Guide
We use Blue Badge Guides
TOUR DATES: Satuday 1st & Sunday 2nd October 2022
Optional arrival date Fri 30th September​
PRICE: £269pp
INCLUDED IN YOUR TOUR:
  • Private guided walking tour of Halifax with our specialist Anne Lister Blue Badge Guide
  • Entry to Bankfield Museum. Here we will see the Fashion in Anne Lister's Time (1791-1840) Anne Lister had her own unique style that contrasted with what women were expected to wear. This exhibition explores the many different styles of fashion during her lifetime.
  • Tea/coffee in Bankfield Museum
  • Entry to Shibden Hall
  • Private guided walking tour of York with your host & Blue Badge Guide
  • Entry and private guided tour of Fairfax House, York
  • Exclusive entry to Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate where Anne & Ann took their vowls
  • Return private coach from York to Halifax/Shibden Hall
NOT INCLUDED:
  • Accommodation
  • Meals 
  • Travel to/from York
Anne Lister began transcribing her life at the age of fifteen, continuing up to her untimely death at the age of 49. Not mere diaries, Miss Lister’s writings describe the everyday life of the late 18th century / early 19th century England. Her work, totally 22 volumes and over 6 million words, is considered so important that UNESCO has placed her diaries in their UK Memory of the World collection, one of only twenty such objects honoured in this regard.
 
Her entries did not stop with politics, science of the day, land management and local society. What makes Miss Lister’s work so compelling are her “crypt-hand” entries. Making up over twenty per cent of the content, Miss Lister used this code to describe, in detail, her emotional life. As she herself said: “I love and only love the fairer sex and thus believed by them in turn, my heart retreats from any love but theirs.” Her diaries give a full depiction of her search for love. Though she travelled great distances in her search, she finally found her life partner in Ann Walker, also of Halifax.
 
Members of the modern-day LGBTQ community have found her courage, resilience and full belief that God had created her exactly as He planned both inspiring and comforting. Anne Lister has become a modern-day icon through the writings of Helena Whitbread, the first to decode and publish Anne’s writings in detail, including the most intimate passages. It was Helena Whitbread’s work, followed on by Jill Liddington, that eventually inspired Sally Wainwright to present the story of Anne Lister and Ann Walker to the world in the form of Gentleman Jack.