Eleanor Barraclough | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | Churchill College, Cambridge (MA, MPhil, PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Environmental history |
Institutions | Bath 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]