Julia Crick is Professor of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies. She spent her early career in Cambridge, completing her first and second degrees in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and the Faculty of History, before holding a research fellowship and then tutorship at Gonville and Caius College. She came to King's from the University of Exeter in 2012, where she co-founded with Simon Barton and Andrea Williams the MA in Medieval Studies, whose creation led to the formation of the Centre for Medieval Studies. Her research interests centre on the history and manuscript culture of medieval Britain: the transmission of knowledge, texts and information, the learning and imitation of script and script-styles, particularly across political boundaries, the function of the past, including origin legends and forgery. Her publications include Charters of St Albans (OUP 2007), with Alexandra Walsham The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700 (CUP, 2004, 2010), with E. M. C. van Houts, A Social History of England (2011), with Stephen Baxter and C. P. Lewis, Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England (OUP, 2025).

Julia Crick was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to investigate script and forgery in Britain to A.D. 1100 (2008-10), a project which generated a number of studies on forgery and archaising hands. She was Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Research Project, The Conqueror's Commissioners: Unlocking the Domesday Survey of South-West England (2014-17). Julia Crick, with David Rundle of the University of Kent, directs the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme Knowledge Orders before Modernity.         

              Julia Crick has served on the editorial board of the Blackwells journal Early Medieval Europe, on the Advisory Board of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists from 2008-11, for a short period as its Acting Second Vice-President, and on the international advisory boards of several research projects. She has been a member of the Royal Historical Society-British Academy Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters since 2002 and its chair since 2022 and is member of the Comité scientifique of the Monumenta Palaeographica Medii Aevi and in 2015 was elected member of the Comité internationale de paléographie latine. She has visited the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, Cambridge, as a Research Associate. She has delivered plenary lectures in London, New York, Aberdeen, Glasgow, and in May 2011 she attended the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI as Richard Rawlinson Congress Speaker. Between 2013 and 2017 she directed the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies at King's, she chairs the London Palaeography Teachers' Group, and she co-convenes the London Medieval Manuscripts Seminar.

Julia Crick teaches postgraduate courses on medieval palaeography and codicology, with a specialist option on the scripts of Britain and Ireland, 600-1100. She has supervised doctoral dissertations on a variety of subjects from Anglo-Saxon landholding to twelfth-century historical writing. She is currently engaged in the supervision of dissertations relating to the palaeography and history of England between 700 and 1250.