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| Alma mater | Churchill College, Cambridge (MA, MPhil, PhD) |
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| Discipline | Environmental history |
| Institutions | Bath Spa University Durham University |
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough FSA FRHistS is a British historian,broadcaster and writer. [1]
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 to 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 ]
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