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#Muslim traveller from #Spain to #Scandinavia not impressed by #music there, from #EmbersOfTheHands
July 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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#HaraldHardrafa from @EmbersOfTheHands
July 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🏺📚🗃️ Wonderful time here @chalkefestival.bsky.social speaking to Eleanor Barraclough about her stunning book on the Vikings, #EmbersOfTheHands
Photo of two women next to a blackboard with the title of a talk on Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, they are in front of a large tent inside which is a stage and a eating audience.
June 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#Vikings playing #games from @EmbersOfTheHands
July 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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#Freedom in #Viking society. From @EmbersOfTheHands
July 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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2025 #WomensPrize longlisted #EmbersOfTheHands by Eleanor Barraclough is a history of the Viking Age told through the everyday objects of ordinary people. We spoke to Eleanor about her book, research and current reads – read here: womensprize.com/in-conversat... @profilebooks.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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We are over the moon that #EmbersOfTheHands, Eleanor Barraclough's original and intimate history of the Vikings, has been longlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social for Non-Fiction 2025! Congratulations to all 16 authors ✨

Take a look at the longlist here: tinyurl.com/2tukbsdz
A graphic with depicting the hardback book Embers of the Hands by Eleanor Barraclough. Also on the graphic is the Women's Prize Non-Fiction Longlisted 2025 sticker and the following text, 'Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age. Eleanor Barraclough'.
February 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Just started this! #EmbersOfTheHands by #Eleanor Barraclough. Beautiful #prose #history
June 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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A cache of #runes in #Bergen seem to refer to #childbirth. “Come out, hairless one. The Lord calls you into the light.” #EmbersOfTheHands
June 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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“The human voice leaves no trace in the #archaeological record, and yet it is the most intimate and personal musical instrument that anyone can possess, regardless of their place in the world.” #quote #EmbersOfTheHands
July 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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#EmbersOfTheHands #NowReading #History #Vikings Quite the page-turner. Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough 💡📚💙
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
April 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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We are thrilled that Eleanor Barraclough's eye-opening and engaging history of the Viking age #EmbersOfTheHands has been shortlisted for the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025. Congratulations to Eleanor and the five other shortlisted authors!

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A rectangular graphic with the paperback book Embers of the Hands by Eleanor Barraclough on the right-hand side. To the left of this is the following text, 'The Wolfson History Prize 2025. Shortlisted: Embers of the Hands Hidden Histories of the Viking Age. Eleanor Barraclough. #WolfsonHistoryPrize'.
September 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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In 1086 #slaves made up about 1/10 - 1/3 of #Englands population. William banned sale of #slaves to foreign lands, especially to non Christians. The practice of slavery in England began declining. From @EmbersOfTheHands
July 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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#Iceskaters were children #vikings @EmbersOfTheHands
July 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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'I wanted to write about the lives of ordinary humans who lived during the Viking Age rather than the larger-than-life headline hitters'

Eleanor Barraclough talks all things Vikings and her book #EmbersOfTheHands in this eye-opening interview.

🔗 tinyurl.com/5bune5ym
December 6, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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#LittleEnglanders by @alwynturner.bsky.social and #EmbersOfTheHands by Eleanor Barraclough have been chosen by @thetimes.com as two of the best history books of 2024✨
The 21 best history books of 2024
From ancient India and the Vikings to the CIA, explore the world’s glorious, gruesome and ugly past. Featuring Max Hastings, Ben Macintyre and more
www.thetimes.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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🏺📚 Delighted to see several brilliant authors I know on this list, and especially Eleanor Barraclough's #EmbersOfTheHands, a wonderful search for 'little lives' in the Viking world through archaeology & history
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Photo of cover of "Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age" book. Cover is a golden colour, and there are photos of a metal Thor hammer and a bone comb. Book is lying on a woven wool throw coloured gold, orange, dark blue and turquoise. Text on back cover : "Splendid. . . In lively prose, Eleanot Barraclough ranges from Greenland to Baghdad, showing us barrooms and bedrooms, daydreaming children at their lessons, gossiping neighbors, the scars of war, and much more besides. An intimate portrait of the Viking Age that is thoughtful, vivid. and warm, while ignoring none of its hardships---highly recommended." - Neil Price, author of Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings "A wondrous, gorgeously written book, breathing the Vikings into intimate, incandescent life: from glittering treasure to lost ephemera, racy runes to hidden tombs, Eleanot Barraclough reveals people both endearingly familiar, yet sometimes also bafflingly, even unnervingly, strange." -REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art "A history of the Vikings that deploys their material legacy from combs to slave collars, from skulls to sundials to evoke the wonder of an entire civilization.?' -Tom HOLLAND author of Pax and co-host of The Rest Is History. "A fascinating journey through all faccts of the Viking world--especially what ordinary people experienced beautifully collated from tiny bits of real evidence from archaeology and linguistics. We feel firsthand the hardships of sailing and farming so far north, of the captives, and of women cooking and endlessly making cloth, clothing and huge woolen sails for the boats--evidence that used to be ignored. Plus a delightful chapter on play and the many board games with which Viking families relaxed!" -ELIZABETH WAYLAND BARBER,authorof Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years".
February 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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'This book brings us as close to an intimacy with a strange past as we are likely to get'

A brilliant @financialtimes.com review for Eleanor Barraclough's eye-opening and original history of the Vikings #EmbersOfTheHands ✨
Embers of the Hands by Eleanor Barraclough — bogged down in Norse culture
The historian unearths a rich trove of artefacts and records to tell the tale of the ordinary lives of Vikings
www.ft.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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To celebrate #IWD25 10% of all sales on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social this weekend will be donated to the Women's Prize Trust.

Why not use this as a great opportunity to get a copy of @womensprize.bsky.social for Non-Fiction longlisted #EmbersOfTheHands by Eleanor Barraclough?

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A square graphic featuring the thumbs of the sixteen books longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. The text on the graphic reads: This weekend, 10% of bookshop.org book sales go the Women's Prize Trust. Support the Women's Trust in International Women's Day. Catch up on your longlist reading...
March 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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A fascinating talk by Eleanor Barraclough on Hidden Histories of the Viking Age on the first day of @harvingtonhall.bsky.social history festival. Fascinating to hear about daily life (including Lloyd’s Bank coprolite, found during excavations in Viking Age York 🤢) #embersofthehands #harvingtonhall
July 22, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Discover the story of the real Vikings through the objects they left behind...

@womensprize.bsky.social‬-nominated #EmbersOfTheHands by Eleanor Barraclough is out in paperback today ✨

tinyurl.com/EmbersOfTheHandsPB
A rectangular graphic with a gold and bronze shimmering background. In the centre of the graphic is the paperback book Embers of the Hands by Eleanor Barraclough. Surrounding the book are illustrations of a hammer, a baby amulet, a comb and a carved bear. The Profile logo is in the bottom left-hand corner.
June 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Defining #skaves in #Viking world. From @EmbersOfTheHands
July 4, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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From @EleanorBarraclough @EmbersOfTheHands on #faith
June 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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“Snipe, with their needle-long beaks and creaking-bed spring call.” #quote #EmbersOfTheHands
June 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Listen to #EmbersOfTheHands author Eleanor Barraclough talking all things Viking with William Dalrymple and Anita Anand in the new series of @empirepoduk.bsky.social ✨
empirepoduk.bsky.social Empire: World History @empirepoduk.bsky.social · Jun 12
⚔️NEW SERIES LAUNCHES TODAY! ⚔️

We explore the history of the countries on Trump's Shopping List, starting with Greenland!

Episode 1...

🧊Viking Greenland: Erik The Red & Horny Zombies 🧊
June 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM