Dr Helen Killick

Dr Helen Killick
Research Associate
Mansfield
helen.killick@history.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

  • Medieval revolt
  • Late medieval parliament and petitioning
  • The medieval property market

I am a Research Associate within the Faculty of History working on an AHRC-funded project, ‘The People of 1381’, a comprehensive re-examination of the Peasants’ Revolt.

My research examines late medieval British political, social and economic history, with an explicit focus on the documents produced by the central government administration. Specific research interests include: Thomas Hoccleve and the office of the Privy Seal; scribes and book production; parliamentary petitions; multilingualism in late medieval documentary culture; and late medieval finance, in particular the market in freehold property. I am currently working on a major new research project on the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, which aims to provide the most comprehensive overview to date of the revolt and its participants. I have a keen interest in digital humanities, in particular the use of relational databases as a means of storing and analysing historical information.

Teaching

I currently teach:

Prelims: FHS:
History of the British Isles II and III History of the British Isles II and III