Wendy R. Childs (born March 1943) is Emeritus Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of Leeds.
Childs was educated at Girton College, Cambridge where she completed the degrees of BA (later promoted to MA) and PhD.
She was Director of the university's Institute for Medieval Studies from 1983 to 1993 and Chair of the School of History from 1991 to 1994.
She retired in 2007 when she became emeritus professor[1] Childs is a specialist in the economic history of medieval Europe and the international trade of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
[2] She has also written about fourteenth century politics (especially during the reign of King Edward II) and the English chronicles.