Amateur historian sensationally discovers ‘Gentleman Jack’ Anne Lister’s wife Ann Walker’s secret diaries hidden in plain sight

Anne Lister’s risque diaries, written in code, were hidden behind a wall panel at Shibden and not discovered until the 1930s, when a Lister descendant managed to decipher the code. However, he hid them once again, fearing scandal, and they were not found and transcribed again until the 1980s.