Eleanor Barraclough is a historian and broadcaster, and the author of Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age (Profile), and Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas (OUP). Based at Bath Spa University, she previously held academic positions at Oxford and Durham, and studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a BBC New Generation Thinker. She lives in London.
