Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough

Eleanor Barraclough is a historian, writer and broadcaster based at Bath Spa University, where she is Senior Lecturer in Environmental History. Previously, she was Associate Professor in Medieval History and Literature at Durham University and a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Oxford. She studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. A BBC New Generation Thinker, Eleanor presents radio programmes and is also the author of Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas (Oxford University Press). Thanks to her BBC documentaries, she has jammed with Viking musicians, dunked herself in a frozen lake in search of immortality, and been knighted with a walrus penis bone in the arctic.

Her second book, Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, will be published by Profile Books in September 2024. 

Website: https://eleanorbarraclough.com/