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First Name
Lily
Last Name
Chadwick
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United Kingdom
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Affiliation
University of Birmingham & Woodbrooke Learning Centre
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Keywords
early modern, British Atlantic, religion, gender, power, authority
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PhD

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About Me

Lily Chadwick (she/her) is a social historian of the early modern Atlantic with an emphasis on intersections of gender, authority/power, religious ‘radicalism’, and regionalism. She defended her PhD thesis, Transatlantic Friends: Gender, Authority, and Regionalism in the Early Modern British Atlantic, at the University of Durham in June 2024, which was examined by Dr Alex Barber and Professor Laura Gowing. This thesis examined the development of Quaker Women’s Monthly Meetings in specific locations across the British Atlantic between 1670 and 1725 to understand the impact of regional circumstance on the agency and authority of Quaker women within the institutional apparatus of the Meeting. Originally from the United States, Lily received her BA in history and global studies from the University of Minnesota in 2018. She completed her MA in history at the University of Durham in 2020.

Lily is currently is the Programme Coordinator in Quaker History at the Woodbrooke Quaker Learning Centre and serves as a Recognized Supervisor in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. She has taught on a wide variety of subjects and themes in history, most recently on topics related to gender and the body, belief and disbelief, movement and migration, and empire and colonization in the early modern British Atlantic.

Lily strongly believes that the study of the past is critical to understanding our present world and may empower students, as global citizens, by equipping them with the tools necessary to strive for a more just and equitable future.

Recent Publications

Published Articles: 

Chadwick, Lily R. Review of The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937, edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, and David Harrington Watt. The New History of Quakerism. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. Pp. 1–369. Religious Studies Review, 50 (2024): 788-788. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17514. 

Chadwick, Lily R. Review of A Caribbean Enlightenment: Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750-1792, by April G. Shelford. Journal of World History 36, no. 2 (2025): 335-337. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2025.a957981.

Chadwick, Lily R. “Gendered Relationships and the Spiritual Family: Female Quaker Ministers and the Language of Obedience.” Durham University History in Politics Journal, no. 3 (Winter 2022): 31-39.

Chadwick, Lily R. “Transatlantic Friends – Exploring ‘Radical’ Religion and Feminine Agency Through Early Modern Atlantic Regionalism.” Quaker History 113, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 11-16.

Forthcoming Articles & Chapters:

“Accessing the Intimate in the Archive: Quaker Women’s Meeting Minutes and the History of Emotions.” Under review at Quaker Studies. 

“Embodied Faith: Female Quaker Ministry and the Power of Ambivalence in the Early Modern British Atlantic.” Under preparation for Gender & History. 

“Waiting in Silence: The Power of Discernment and Clerkship in Quaker Worship.” Chapter in an edited volume on religious spaces of worship under preparation, solicited by Professor Stephen Taylor. 

Book review of Susannah Gibson’s The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women’s Movement (W.W. Norton, 2024), solicited by The American Historical Review.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
Atlantic, British Isles, Caribbean, North America, United Kingdom
Expertise by Chronology
Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Colonialism, Family, Gender, Labor, Local & Regional, Religion, Women