Eleanor Parker

Eleanor Parker is a British historian and medievalist.

Parker read Old and Middle English and Old Norse Literature at the University of Oxford. Parker was lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Brasenose College, at the University of Oxford. She is a columnist at History Today.

In May 2018, Parker published her first book, Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England.

Parker started her blog, 'A Clerk of Oxford', in 2008, whilst an undergraduate student at Oxford. The blog won the 2015 Longman-History Today award for Digital History. 'A Clerk of Oxford' 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.

In 2019, Parker read from the Knútsdrápur, and interpreted its meaning, in a programme for BBC World Service.