Helen Killick

Dr Helen Killick is a post-doctoral researcher at Henley Business School, University of Reading. She is currently working on an AHRC-funded project on the Valor Ecclesiasticus, a nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of sixteenth century England. She was previously a researcher on the People of 1381 project. She has published predominantly in the area of late medieval British political, social and economic history, with an explicit focus on the documents produced by the central government administration. Her 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. She has a keen interest in digital humanities, in particular the use of relational databases as a means of storing and analysing historical information.