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). ISBN0-901050-88-1.
The Wars of the Roses. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education (1988). ISBN0-333-40603-6.
North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses. Oxford. Clarendon Press (1990)
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower. Stroud: Sutton (1991). ISBN0862996600.
(ed., with R. H. Britnell) McFarlane Legacy: Studies in Late Medieval Politics and Society. Stroud: Sutton (1995) ISBN0-7509-0626-X