Dr Lily Chadwick
@lilyrchadwick.bsky.social
Programme Coordinator in Quaker History at the Woodbrooke Centre / University of Birmingham.
Historian of gender, religious “radicalism,” empire and authority in the early modern Atlantic; Durham & UMN alumna; she/her, views my own
Historian of gender, religious “radicalism,” empire and authority in the early modern Atlantic; Durham & UMN alumna; she/her, views my own
FHA is very pleased to announce that registration is now open for our annual fall event!
Please join us online Sunday, 16 November for a book talk given by Professor Marcus Rediker featuring his new work, Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea @marcusrediker.bsky.social
Please join us online Sunday, 16 November for a book talk given by Professor Marcus Rediker featuring his new work, Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea @marcusrediker.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
FHA is very pleased to announce that registration is now open for our annual fall event!
Please join us online Sunday, 16 November for a book talk given by Professor Marcus Rediker featuring his new work, Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea @marcusrediker.bsky.social
Please join us online Sunday, 16 November for a book talk given by Professor Marcus Rediker featuring his new work, Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea @marcusrediker.bsky.social
Lovely to be back in Durham today celebrating the brilliant career of Professor Andy Wood! @imems.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Lovely to be back in Durham today celebrating the brilliant career of Professor Andy Wood! @imems.bsky.social
My latest article, “Accessing the Intimate in the Archive: Quaker Women’s Meeting Minutes and the History of Emotions” has been published by Quaker Studies and is available for access here: quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
Accessing the Intimate in the Archive: Quaker Women’s Meeting Minutes and the History of Emotions
The earliest generations of Quakers existed primarily on the margins of early modern European society, and yet they produced an abundance of written material containing a wealth of information for soc...
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September 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
My latest article, “Accessing the Intimate in the Archive: Quaker Women’s Meeting Minutes and the History of Emotions” has been published by Quaker Studies and is available for access here: quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
Reposted by Dr Lily Chadwick
Come be my colleague at the University of Minnesota -- we are hiring! @umn-rels.bsky.social
The Religious Studies program at UMN is searching for a new TT position in Buddhist Studies. Please circulate widely!
The Religious Studies program at UMN is searching for a new TT position in Buddhist Studies. Please circulate widely!
August 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Come be my colleague at the University of Minnesota -- we are hiring! @umn-rels.bsky.social
The Religious Studies program at UMN is searching for a new TT position in Buddhist Studies. Please circulate widely!
The Religious Studies program at UMN is searching for a new TT position in Buddhist Studies. Please circulate widely!
Had a brilliant and productive archive trip to Friends House Library in London this week! Great to see many colleagues and acquaintances again and to have the opportunity to gather rich new primary materials.
Now begins a long weekend of image backups and data management…
Now begins a long weekend of image backups and data management…
August 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Had a brilliant and productive archive trip to Friends House Library in London this week! Great to see many colleagues and acquaintances again and to have the opportunity to gather rich new primary materials.
Now begins a long weekend of image backups and data management…
Now begins a long weekend of image backups and data management…
Many busy things this month!
Pleased to have presented my paper, “Stubborn, Ungratful Carriage: Early Quakerism and the Politics of Poor Relief” at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social earlier this month.
Also pleased to have finally graduated from Durham (1 year post viva!) 🎉💃🏻
Feeling very grateful ❤️
Pleased to have presented my paper, “Stubborn, Ungratful Carriage: Early Quakerism and the Politics of Poor Relief” at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social earlier this month.
Also pleased to have finally graduated from Durham (1 year post viva!) 🎉💃🏻
Feeling very grateful ❤️
July 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Many busy things this month!
Pleased to have presented my paper, “Stubborn, Ungratful Carriage: Early Quakerism and the Politics of Poor Relief” at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social earlier this month.
Also pleased to have finally graduated from Durham (1 year post viva!) 🎉💃🏻
Feeling very grateful ❤️
Pleased to have presented my paper, “Stubborn, Ungratful Carriage: Early Quakerism and the Politics of Poor Relief” at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social earlier this month.
Also pleased to have finally graduated from Durham (1 year post viva!) 🎉💃🏻
Feeling very grateful ❤️
Had a brilliant, stimulating time at the Caribbean Connections workshop at KCL yesterday. Many thanks to @drmishaewen.bsky.social @hsmurphy.bsky.social and Dr Michael Bennett for planning and convening!
(A big bonus, the views from our conference room 😍)
(A big bonus, the views from our conference room 😍)
June 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Had a brilliant, stimulating time at the Caribbean Connections workshop at KCL yesterday. Many thanks to @drmishaewen.bsky.social @hsmurphy.bsky.social and Dr Michael Bennett for planning and convening!
(A big bonus, the views from our conference room 😍)
(A big bonus, the views from our conference room 😍)
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Please consider submitting to this special issue of Quaker Studies around the Declaration of Independence semiquincentennial. We're a peer reviewed, fully open access journal welcoming submissions from all academic disciplines - do get in touch if you have questions. quakerstudies.openlibhums.org
June 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Please consider submitting to this special issue of Quaker Studies around the Declaration of Independence semiquincentennial. We're a peer reviewed, fully open access journal welcoming submissions from all academic disciplines - do get in touch if you have questions. quakerstudies.openlibhums.org
Call for Papers! Please see image below.
For all enquiries and submissions, please contact @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social at g.rhiannon@bham.ac.uk or Dr Lily Chadwick at lily.chadwick@woodbrooke.org.uk. Article submissions are due 30 January 2026.
For all enquiries and submissions, please contact @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social at g.rhiannon@bham.ac.uk or Dr Lily Chadwick at lily.chadwick@woodbrooke.org.uk. Article submissions are due 30 January 2026.
June 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Call for Papers! Please see image below.
For all enquiries and submissions, please contact @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social at g.rhiannon@bham.ac.uk or Dr Lily Chadwick at lily.chadwick@woodbrooke.org.uk. Article submissions are due 30 January 2026.
For all enquiries and submissions, please contact @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social at g.rhiannon@bham.ac.uk or Dr Lily Chadwick at lily.chadwick@woodbrooke.org.uk. Article submissions are due 30 January 2026.
Had a wonderful time delivering my paper “The Weight of Silence” at Spaces and Places of Devotion, c. 1600-1800 in Aix-en-Provence this last week.
Many thanks to @imems.bsky.social, @univ-amu.fr, and @britaix17-18.bsky.social for sponsoring such a fantastic event
Many thanks to @imems.bsky.social, @univ-amu.fr, and @britaix17-18.bsky.social for sponsoring such a fantastic event
May 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Had a wonderful time delivering my paper “The Weight of Silence” at Spaces and Places of Devotion, c. 1600-1800 in Aix-en-Provence this last week.
Many thanks to @imems.bsky.social, @univ-amu.fr, and @britaix17-18.bsky.social for sponsoring such a fantastic event
Many thanks to @imems.bsky.social, @univ-amu.fr, and @britaix17-18.bsky.social for sponsoring such a fantastic event
Friends Historical Association Grant Applications are Due May 31st!
The Friends Historical Association is pleased to offer funding to support contributions to the field of Quaker history…
The Friends Historical Association is pleased to offer funding to support contributions to the field of Quaker history…
May 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Friends Historical Association Grant Applications are Due May 31st!
The Friends Historical Association is pleased to offer funding to support contributions to the field of Quaker history…
The Friends Historical Association is pleased to offer funding to support contributions to the field of Quaker history…
Please consider joining myself and Dr Caitlin McGeever at Woodbrooke this June for our new course: “Challenging Traditional Quaker Histories: Quakers and Enslavement.” Only two places remain, so be sure to book soon! For more, please visit: www.woodbrooke.org.uk/our-courses/
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May 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Please consider joining myself and Dr Caitlin McGeever at Woodbrooke this June for our new course: “Challenging Traditional Quaker Histories: Quakers and Enslavement.” Only two places remain, so be sure to book soon! For more, please visit: www.woodbrooke.org.uk/our-courses/
I would be very grateful for any recommendations on scholarship related to the “curation” of emotions (e.g., how emotions are recorded or “curated” in archives). Thank you!
May 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I would be very grateful for any recommendations on scholarship related to the “curation” of emotions (e.g., how emotions are recorded or “curated” in archives). Thank you!
Interested in histories of political chaos and religious dissent? Want to know more about the radical origins of Quakerism? Join us at Woodbrooke for our upcoming course: “The Spirit of Dissent: Quaker Origins in Early Modern England” led by the brilliant @ericanela.bsky.social ! Register below ⬇️
April 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Interested in histories of political chaos and religious dissent? Want to know more about the radical origins of Quakerism? Join us at Woodbrooke for our upcoming course: “The Spirit of Dissent: Quaker Origins in Early Modern England” led by the brilliant @ericanela.bsky.social ! Register below ⬇️
Friends Historical Association invites you to attend our 2025 Spring Event on Sunday, 4 May 2025. This year, FHA will enjoy a guided tour of Harriton House in Bryn Mawr, PA. Sign up soon for this fantastic event!
For registration, please see: www.quakerhistory.org/2025-spring-...
For registration, please see: www.quakerhistory.org/2025-spring-...
April 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Friends Historical Association invites you to attend our 2025 Spring Event on Sunday, 4 May 2025. This year, FHA will enjoy a guided tour of Harriton House in Bryn Mawr, PA. Sign up soon for this fantastic event!
For registration, please see: www.quakerhistory.org/2025-spring-...
For registration, please see: www.quakerhistory.org/2025-spring-...
Excited to be hosting my first live session tonight for my Woodbrooke course “Troublesome Women: Female Quaker Ministers and the Gendered Politics of Dissent”!
Watch this space for more exciting course content coming shortly at Woodbrooke 🥳
www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/trou...
Watch this space for more exciting course content coming shortly at Woodbrooke 🥳
www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/trou...
Troublesome Women: Early Female Quaker Ministers - Woodbrooke
This course will dive deep into the history of the earliest Quaker women, uncovering what it was that made female Friends in particular so radical to
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April 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Excited to be hosting my first live session tonight for my Woodbrooke course “Troublesome Women: Female Quaker Ministers and the Gendered Politics of Dissent”!
Watch this space for more exciting course content coming shortly at Woodbrooke 🥳
www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/trou...
Watch this space for more exciting course content coming shortly at Woodbrooke 🥳
www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/trou...
Very excited to be back teaching in Durham this term. What great post-lunch views 😍 @durhamhistory.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Very excited to be back teaching in Durham this term. What great post-lunch views 😍 @durhamhistory.bsky.social
Interested in histories of the body, radical religious ministry, and women? Join us on 13 February online or in-person at the IHR in London to hear my talk, “Embodied Faith: Female Quaker Ministry and the Power of Ambivalence” !
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www.history.ac.uk/events/embod...
Embodied Faith: Female Quaker Ministry and the Power of Ambivalence in the Early Modern British Atlantic
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February 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Interested in histories of the body, radical religious ministry, and women? Join us on 13 February online or in-person at the IHR in London to hear my talk, “Embodied Faith: Female Quaker Ministry and the Power of Ambivalence” !
www.history.ac.uk/events/embod...
www.history.ac.uk/events/embod...
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A response from Lily Chadwick and a Q&A led by Amanda Herbert will follow.
November 20, 2023 at 6:08 PM
A response from Lily Chadwick and a Q&A led by Amanda Herbert will follow.
Reposted by Dr Lily Chadwick
Join us this Wed 22 Nov from 3-4:30pm in PG 20 to hear John Marshall (John Hopkins) discuss ‘Antiracism, Antislavery, and Anti-imperialism: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787, 1788, 1791) in Context’.
November 20, 2023 at 6:08 PM
Join us this Wed 22 Nov from 3-4:30pm in PG 20 to hear John Marshall (John Hopkins) discuss ‘Antiracism, Antislavery, and Anti-imperialism: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787, 1788, 1791) in Context’.