Career
Pollard was born at South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom on November 23, 1944. After graduating from South Shields Grammar School for Boys, John Pollard took his Bachelor of Arts Degree in History at Cambridge University in 1966, and Master of Arts in 1970. In 1990 John Pollard received the title of Professor of Modern European History.
He took early retirement from Anglia Polytechnic University in 2003, but continues to teach undergraduate and graduate students as a Supervisor in the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge.