Eleanor Barraclough

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Eleanor Barraclough
Academic background
Alma materChurchill College, Cambridge (MA, MPhil, PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineEnvironmental history
InstitutionsBath Spa University
Durham University

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is a British cultural historian, broadcaster and writer. She is a lecturer in Environmental History at Bath Spa University.[1] Previously she was an associate professor of medieval history, and literature at Durham University with particular focus on the history and mythology of the Vikings.[2][3] She was named a 2013 BBC/Arts and Humanities Research Council New Generation Thinker and has presented programmes such as BBC Four's Beyond the Walls: In Search of the Celts and hosted the Time Travellers podcast on BBC Radio 3.[4] She acted as a judge for the 2020 Costa Book Award for Biography.[5] and participated in the second episode of the Longborough Festival Opera podcast.[6]

Works[edit]

  • —; Cudmore, Danielle Marie; Donecker, Stefan, eds. (October 2016). Imagining the Supernatural North. University of Alberta Press. p. 328. ISBN 978-1-77212-267-1.[7]
  • — (December 2016). Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas. Oxford University Press. p. 320. ISBN 978-0198701248.[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Dr Eleanor Barrclough". Bath Spa University. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  2. ^ Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund (2017-02-15). "Top 10 books about the Vikings". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  3. ^ "How Much Viking Lore Is True?". National Geographic: History. 2017-01-22. Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
  4. ^ "Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough". bbc.co.uk. BBC. 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
  5. ^ "Michelle Gallen and Eavan Boland shortlisted for Costa Book Awards". The Irish Times. November 24, 2020. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
  6. ^ "Longborough Festival Opera Launches Podcast". Opera Wire. 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  7. ^ Reviews for Imagining the Supernatural North:
  8. ^ Reviews for Beyond the Northlands:

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