Publications

One Hand Tied Behind Us:
The Rise of the Women's Suffrage Movement
with Jill Norris

The book shows how the radical suffragists took their message to women at grassroots level, to the Co-operative Guilds and trade union branches. It is based upon a wealth of unpublished material, local newspaper accounts, diaries, handwritten minute books, forgotten biographies and interviews with the last surviving suffragists, and those who remember their work and features daughters of the radical suffragists who remember their mother's courageous campaigns.

Anne Lister of Shibden Hall, Halifax

Scholar, landowner, traveller, Anne Lister is best known as a diarist. An extraordinarily vivid record of her daily life, the journals candidly record her lesbian affairs – and are partly written in Anne’s secret code.

Female Fortune:
Land, Gender and Authority:
the Anne Lister diaries 1833-36

Anne Lister (1791–1840), scholar, heiress, estate owner, is best known through her diaries - a magnificently detailed record of an extraordinary life. In 1826, she inherited Shibden Hall and, as Yorkshire rapidly industrialized, she developed the estate's coal deposits, managing them with flair and energy.

At the same time, Anne Lister wooed and seduced a neighbouring heiress, consolidated their two estates in a dynastic lesbian 'marriage'. Jill Liddington analyses the role of gender in Lister’s invasion of an almost exclusively male sphere. The book is supported by generous selections from the diaries themselves.

Nature's Domain tracks Anne Lister's intense courtship of heiress Ann Walker, vividly and candidly recorded in Anne's daily journals - and partly written in her own secret code.

This dramatic story, hitherto unknown and never before published, unfolds from April 1832 to New Year 1833. It records how Anne Lister's indomitable will enabled her to mould nature to her own powerful desires.