Eleanor Barraclough

Eleanor Barraclough is a cultural historian, broadcaster and writer based at Bath Spa University, where she lectures in Environmental History. A BBC New Generation Thinker, she is the author of Beyond the Northlands: Vikings and the Old Norse Sagas, and has appeared regularly on radio and television, work which has lead to her variously being knighted with a walrus penis bone, bewitched in Sherwood Forest, chased by imaginary zombies through the basement of the BBC and dunked in a hole in the ice in a quest for immortality.