Educated in history at Jesus College, Oxford, Pollard graduated in 1891 with a first class honours degree. In 1893, he began working at the Dictionary of National Biography as an assistant editor and was responsible for over 500 entries. In 1900, he published England Under Protector Somerset and the following year resigned from the Dictionary in order to concentrate on his writing. He was elected to the chair of constitutional history at University College, London in 1903 and continued there until he retired in 1931. He founded the Historical Association in 1906 and was chairman of the Institute of Historical Research from 1921 to 1931 and an honorary director from 1931 to 1939. He also edited History magazine from 1916 to 1922. His works include Henry VIII (1902), Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation (1904), Factors in Modern History (1907), The History of England from the Accession of Edward VI to the Death of Elizabeth (1910), The History of England: a Study in Political Evolution (1912), War, Its History and Its Morals (1915), The Commonwealth at War (1917), A Short History of the Great War (1920), The Evolution of Parliament (1920), The Elizabethans and the Empire (1921) and Wolsey (1929). |
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