Eleanor Parker (historian)

Eleanor Catherine Parker is a British historian and medievalist.[1]

For the American actress, see Eleanor Parker.

Eleanor Parker
NationalityBritish
Known forColumnist at History Today
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
ThesisAnglo-Scandinavian literature in post-Conquest England (2013)
Websiteaclerkofoxford.blogspot.com

Career

Parker read Old and Middle English and Old Norse Literature at the University of Oxford. As of 2022 she is lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Brasenose College, Oxford, and was previously a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).[1] She is a columnist at History Today.[2] In May 2018, she published her first book, Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England.[3][4] Her second book, Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England, was published in 2022,[5][6] and was selected by The Times as one of the best books of 2022.[7]

Parker started her blog, "A Clerk of Oxford", in 2008, whilst an undergraduate student at Oxford.[8] The blog won the 2015 Longman-History Today award for Digital History.[9] It was described as "unrivalled in bringing in outsiders to understand the reality of everything from the Dwarves' treasure to God's Darling" and "an orchard of golden apples" by Christopher Howse in The Daily Telegraph.[10] In 2019, Parker read from the Knútsdrápur, and interpreted its meaning, in a programme for BBC World Service.[11]

References
  1. "Dr Eleanor Parker - Brasenose College, Oxford". www.bnc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  2. "Eleanor Parker | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  3. Thurber, Bev (18 January 2019). "19.08.10 Parker, Dragon Lords". The Medieval Review. ISSN 1096-746X.
  4. "Dragon Lords: Dr Eleanor Parker on England's Viking Myths and Ragnar Lothbrok | All About History". www.historyanswers.co.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  5. Carey, John (6 February 2022). "Conquered by Eleanor Parker review — Anglo-Saxon life after the Norman conquest". The Times. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  6. Burghart, Alex (5 March 2022). "What the Anglo-Saxons made of 1066 and all that followed". The Spectator. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  7. Holgate, Andrew; Millen, Robbie (4 March 2022). "The best books of 2022". The Times. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  8. "A Clerk of Oxford: About this blog". A Clerk of Oxford. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  9. "A Clerk of Oxford | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  10. Howse, Christopher (4 July 2015). "A Clerk of Oxford's guide to a bright old world". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  11. "BBC World Service – The Forum, Cnut: England's Viking king, The Viking's bloodthirsty Skaldic poetry". BBC. Retrieved 5 February 2020.


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