A.F. Pollard*.
A.F. Pollard is now better remembered for founding the Institute of Historical Research than he is for his scholarship. In his heyday, however, Pollard was a formidable and prolific historian, primarily of parliament and the Tudor period. Pollard has been characterised both as a modernist and as a w...
| Published in: | Parliamentary History Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 45 - 59 |
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