A. J. Pollard

Anthony James Pollard (born 1941) is a British medieval historian, specialising in north-eastern England during the Wars of the Roses. He is considered a leading authority on the field. He is emeritus professor of Teesside University, having joined Teesside Polytechnic as a lecturer in 1969 and retiring in 2008. He became a professor in 1992, the same year the polytechnic acquired university status.

In addition to works on the Wars of the Roses, he has also written a general history of fifteenth-century England (2000) and books on Robin Hood (2004) and Warwick the Kingmaker (2007), Henry V (2014) and Edward IV (2016). He has in addition edited collections of essays on fifteenth-century history and the history of the north-east of England as a region.

Pollard is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was the recipient of a festschrift in 2020, a special edition of the journal The Fifteenth Century edited by Linda Clark and Peter Fleming and titled Rulers, Regions and Affinities.

Pollard chaired the North-East England History Institute between 1998 and 2000. He chaired the advisory committee of the Victoria County History for Durham and served on the series' national committee. He was also vice-president of the Surtees Society, the record society for northern England, and served on the Research Assessment Exercise panel in 1996 and 2001. He sat on the advisory board of the journal The Fifteenth Century and on the publications committee of the Richard III Society.

Personal life Pollard is married to Sandra and they have two sons together.

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