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...

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!

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…

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 ❤️

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 😍)

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 [email protected] or Dr Lily Chadwick at [email protected]. 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

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…

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!

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-...

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...

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” ! www.history.ac.uk/events/embod...

A response from Lily Chadwick and a Q&A led by Amanda Herbert will follow.

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’.