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]
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 |
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
- ^ "Dr Eleanor Barrclough". Bath Spa University. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
- ^ Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund (2017-02-15). "Top 10 books about the Vikings". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ^ "How Much Viking Lore Is True?". National Geographic: History. 2017-01-22. Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
- ^ "Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough". bbc.co.uk. BBC. 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
- ^ "Michelle Gallen and Eavan Boland shortlisted for Costa Book Awards". The Irish Times. November 24, 2020. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
- ^ "Longborough Festival Opera Launches Podcast". Opera Wire. 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ^ 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.
- Faktorovich, Anna (Fall 2018). "Sex and War Jokes about Vikings". Pennsylvania Literary Journal. 10 (3): 67. Retrieved October 3, 2022 – via ProQuest.
- 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.