Emeritus Professor of Modern European History

John Pollard is Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at Anglia Ruskin University and a fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He has supervised Anglia MPhil and PhD students for several years, five of the latter to completion. He has published widely on Italian Fascism, the Papacy and the Italian Catholic movement, most notably The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-1932: A Study in Conflict, CUP, 1985, The Fascist Experience in Italy, Routledge, 1998 and The Unknown Pope: Benedict XV (1914-1922) and the Pursuit of Peace, Cassell, 1999. His book Catholicism and Modernisation: Religion, Society and Politics in Italy, 1861-2006, will be published by Routledge next year. He is currently writing a volume of the Oxford History of the Christian Church entitled, The Papacy in an Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958. He has broadcast frequently on radio and TV on matters related to the Papacy.

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