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Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough FSA FRHistS is a British historian, broadcaster and writer. [1]
Eleanor Barraclough | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Churchill College, Cambridge (MA, MPhil, PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Environmental history |
| Institutions | Bath Spa University Durham University |
Much of her work explores the cultures, literatures and languages of the medieval north, particularly Viking Age history and Old Norse-Icelandic literature. She is the author of Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age (Profile, 2024)[2] and Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas (Oxford University Press, 2016).[3] She also co-edited Imagining the Supernatural North (University of Alberta Press, 2016).[4]
Eleanor Barraclough studied at the University of Cambridge, in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, where she earned an MA (Cantab), an MPhil, and a PhD.[5] She then moved to the University of Oxford, where she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of English,[6] and an Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow at The Queen’s College.[7] From there she moved to Durham University, where she was associate professor in Medieval History and Literature.[8] She is currently Senior Lecturer in Environmental History at Bath Spa University.[9] She held an AHRC Leadership Grant from 2020–2024,[10] for a multidisciplinary study of forests in early northern Germanic cultures.
In 2013, Barraclough was chosen as one of ten BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinkers,[11] in a competition to develop a new generation of academics who can bring the best of university research and scholarly ideas to a broad audience through the media and public engagement. Since then, she has presented many documentaries on BBC Radio 3 and 4, for series such as Costing the Earth, On Your Farm, Sunday Feature and Open Country.[12]
Barraclough was a regular presenter on Radio 3’s Free Thinking[13] and hosted three series of the Time Travellers podcast for Radio 3’s Essential Classics.[14] She also presented BBC Four’s Beyond the Walls: In Search of the Celts.[15] In 2020, she was a judge for the Costa Book Award for Biography.[16] In 2019[17] and 2020,[18] she was a judge for the BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards. When she appeared as a guest on Radio 3’s Private Passions, her music choices included ‘Rotlaust tre fell’ by Wardruna.[19] Thanks to her BBC documentaries, she has jammed with Viking musicians,[20] dunked herself in a frozen lake in search of immortality,[21] and been knighted with a walrus penis bone in the Arctic.[22]
Barraclough lives in London.[citation needed]
- —; Cudmore, Danielle Marie; Donecker, Stefan, eds. (October 2016). Imagining the Supernatural North. University of Alberta Press. p. 328. ISBN 978-1-77212-267-1.[23]
- — (December 2016). Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas. Oxford University Press. p. 320. ISBN 978-0198701248.[24]
- Barraclough, Eleanor (September 2024). Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age. Profile Books. ISBN 978-1-78816-674-4.
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