His research interests include fascist and neo-fascist movements, the ideology of present-day neo-Nazism, political and social Catholicism and history of the nineteenth and twentieth century Italy and the Papacy.
After graduating from South Shields Grammar-Technical School for Boys, he studied history at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took his B.A.
[1] Pollard completed his PhD at the University of Reading, with a Doctoral thesis on fascism – 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 at Anglia 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.