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John Francis Pollard (born 23 November 1944) is a British historian, an emeritus fellow ofTrinity Hall, Cambridge, fellow of theRoyal Historical Society, andEmeritus Professor of Modern European History atAnglia Ruskin University. His research interests include fascist and neo-fascist movements, the ideology of present-day neo-Nazism, political and socialCatholicism and history of the nineteenth and twentieth century Italy and thePapacy.
Pollard was born inSouth Shields,County Durham, on 23 November 1944. After graduating fromSouth Shields Grammar-Technical School for Boys, he studied history atTrinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took hisB.A. Degree in 1966 andM.A. in 1970.[1] Pollard completed hisPhD at theUniversity of Reading, with aDoctoral thesis onfascism –From the Conciliazione to the Riconciliazione: The Church and the Fascist Regime in Italy, 1929 to 1932. In 1990, he received the title of Professor of Modern European History atAnglia Polytechnic University (APU). He took early retirement from APU in 2003,[2] but continues to teach undergraduate and graduate students as a Supervisor in the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge. In 2019, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters (Litt.D.) by the University of Cambridge.
