Anthony James Pollard (born 1941) is a British medieval historian, specialising in north-eastern England during the

Wars of the Roses The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of armed confrontations, machinations, battles and campaigns fought over control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487. The conflict was fo ...

. He is considered a leading authority on the field. He is emeritus professor of

Teesside University Teesside University is a public university with its main campus in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire in North East England. It was officially opened as ''Constantine Technical College'' in 1930, before becoming a polytechnic in 1969, and finally g ...

, 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

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(2004) and

Warwick the Kingmaker Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, 6th Earl of Salisbury (22 November 1428 – 14 April 1471), known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was an English nobleman, administrator, landowner of the House of Neville fortune and military com ...

(2007),

Henry V Henry V may refer to: People * Henry V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1026) * Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1081/86–1125) * Henry V, Duke of Carinthia (died 1161) * Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (–1227) * Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (1216–1281 ...

(2014) and

Edward IV Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England ...

(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

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and was the recipient of a ''

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'' 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

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for Durham and served on the series' national committee. He was also vice-president of the

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, the record society for northern England, and served on the

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panel in 1996 and 2001. He sat on the advisory board of the journal ''The Fifteenth Century'' and on the publications committee of the

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Personal life

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

Selected works

* ''John Talbot and the War in France, 1427-1453''. London: Royal Historical Society (1983). . * ''The Wars of the Roses''. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education (1988). . * ''North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses''. Oxford. Clarendon Press (1990) * ''Richard III and the Princes in the Tower''. Stroud: Sutton (1991). . * (ed., with R. H. Britnell) ''McFarlane Legacy: Studies in Late Medieval Politics and Society''. Stroud: Sutton (1995) * ''Late Medieval England''. Harlow: Longman (2000). * ''Imagining Robin Hood: The Late-Medieval Stories in Historical Context''. London: Routledge (2004). . * ''Warwick the Kingmaker''. London: Hambledon (2007). . * ''Henry V''. Stroud, History Press, 2014. * ''Edward IV: The Summer King''. Penguin, 2016.

References

1941 births Living people People from Taunton Alumni of the University of Bristol 20th-century English historians 21st-century English historians 20th-century English male writers 21st-century English male writers English medievalists Academics of Teesside University Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Contributors to the Victoria County History {{UK-historian-stub