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 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). ISBN 0-901050-88-1.
• The Wars of the Roses. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education (1988). ISBN 0-333-40603-6.
• North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses. Oxford. Clarendon Press (1990)
• Richard III and the Princes in the Tower. Stroud: Sutton (1991). ISBN 0862996600.
• (ed., with R. H. Britnell) McFarlane Legacy: Studies in Late Medieval Politics and Society. Stroud: Sutton (1995) ISBN 0-7509-0626-X
• Late Medieval England. Harlow: Longman (2000). ISBN 0-582-03134-6
• Imagining Robin Hood: The Late-Medieval Stories in Historical Context. London: Routledge (2004). ISBN 0-415-22308-3.
• Warwick the Kingmaker. London: Hambledon (2007). ISBN 978-1-84725-182-4.
• Henry V. Stroud, History Press, 2014. ISBN 9780752497631
• Edward IV. Penguin, 2016. ISBN 978-0141978697