Dr Eleanor Barraclough is a historian, broadcaster and author. Her latest book is EMBERS OF THE HANDS: HIDDEN HISTORIES OF THE VIKING AGE. It was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, chosen as a Times History Book of the Year, and selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice.

Eleanor is a BBC New Generation Thinker (although quite an old one now). She has made BBC documentaries on everything from apocalypses to zombies. She has jammed with viking musicians, cast spells with forest witches, and bathed in a frozen lake in search of immortality. She was once knighted with a walrus penis bone in Arctic Norway and inducted into the Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society.

In her academic life, Eleanor is Reader in Public History at Bath Spa University. She previously held positions at the universities of Oxford and Durham, and studied at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of History, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

You can find her on Instagram @eleanorbarraclough