Eleanor Barraclough
Eleanor Barraclough | |
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Academic background | |
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), MPhil, 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, Eleanor 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]
Eleanor 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, Eleanor 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]
Eleanor lives in London.[citation needed]
Works
- —; 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.
References
- ^ "Eleanor Barraclough Official Website". Eleanor Barraclough. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Embers of the Hands". Profile Books. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas". Waterstones. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Imagining the Supernatural North". University of Alberta Press. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "BBC honours Queen's College junior fellow". The Oxford Student. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Academia - Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough". Eleanor Barraclough. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Academia - Eleanor Barraclough - Bath Spa University". Bath Spa University. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Into the Forest: Woods, Trees and Forests in the Germanic-Speaking Cultures of Northern Europe, c. 46 BC - c. 1500". UK Research and Innovation. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "New research, new broadcasters - Radio 3 announces New Generation Thinkers". BBC. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Broadcasting - Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough". Eleanor Barraclough. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Free Thinking". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Time Travellers". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Beyond the Walls: In Search of the Celts". BBC Four. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Judges Announced for 2020 Costa Book Awards". Costa Coffee. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards 2019". Countryfile. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards 2020". Countryfile. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Private Passions". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "Sunday Feature". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "A step-by-step guide to ice bathing". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "The Supernatural North". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ Reviews for Imagining the Supernatural North:
- Sellheim, Nikolas (November 2017). "Imagining the supernatural north". Polar Record. 53 (6): 634–635. doi:10.1017/S0032247417000341. S2CID 135229596.
- Møllegaard, Kirsten (June 2019). "Book Review: Imagining the Supernatural North". Folklore. 130 (2): 217–218. doi:10.1080/0015587X.2018.1494961. S2CID 197846467. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
- Ísleifsson, Sumarliãi R. (Summer 2018). "Imagining the Supernatural North edited by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore, and Stefan Donecker". University of Toronto Quarterly. 87 (3): 408–409. doi:10.3138/utq.87.3.80. S2CID 166134373. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
- Millman, Lawrence (September 2017). "Imagining the Supernatural North, edited by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore and Stefan Donecker". Arctic. 70 (3): 328. doi:10.14430/arctic4671. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
- Sommer, Shelly (November 2017). "Book Reviews: Imagining the Supernatural North". Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 49 (4): 700. doi:10.1657/AAAR0049-4-book2. S2CID 134355267.
- Grimbeek, Marinette (Summer 2017). "Imagining the Land". Canadian Literature. 233: 148–149. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
- Culeddu, Sara (2019). "Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore and Stefan Donecker (eds.), Imagining the Supernatural North (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2016)". Nordicum Mediterraneum. 14 (1). doi:10.33112/nm.14.1.17. hdl:10278/3714811. S2CID 214385734. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
- ^ Reviews for Beyond the Northlands:
- Videen, Hana (5 May 2017). "Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough: BEYOND THE NORTHLANDS: Viking voyages and the Old Norse sagas". Times Literary Supplement. No. 5953. p. 31. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
- Falk, Oren (May 2018). "Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas". History: Reviews of New Books. 46 (3): 85–86. doi:10.1080/03612759.2018.1436341. S2CID 150338708. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
- Hudson, Benjamin (May 2018). "Book Review: Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas". International Journal of Maritime History. 30 (2): 362–363. doi:10.1177/0843871418759417. S2CID 220198169. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
- Shippey, Tom (6 January 2018). "The Vikings, Beyond Horned Helmets and Valkyries". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
- Zeitz, Elizabeth (15 October 2016). "History: Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas". Library Journal. 141 (17). Retrieved October 3, 2022.
- Parker, Philip (October 2016). "Norse Code". Literary Review. 447. Retrieved October 3, 2022.