A. J. Pollard Explained

Anthony James Pollard (born 1941) is a British medieval historian, specialising in north-eastern England during the Wars of the Roses.^[1] He is considered a leading authority on the field.^[2] He is emeritus professor of the University of Teesside. 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.

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. Penguin, 2016.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Anthony Pollard. School of Arts & Media. Teesside University. 24 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160915100501/http://www.tees.ac.uk/schools/sam/staff_profile_details.cfm?staffprofileid=U0000165. 2016-09-15. dead.
2. Web site: Approaching Middleham . 1994 . Richardian Register . 5 June 2006 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060517181418/http://www.r3.org/archives/ricardian_britain/middleham/pollard1.html . 17 May 2006 .