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Dr John Pollard

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Fellow Archivist, Trinity Hall

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Cambridge CB2 1TJ
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Subject groups/Research projects

Modern European History:

Departments and Institutes

Trinity Hall:

Research Supervision

Currently supervising a DPhil thesis at Oxford on 'Fascism and Venereal Disease in Italy'

Teaching

John Pollard lectures and supervises on Part I, Paper 18, Europe since 1890. He also supervises MPhil and PhD students at ARU, Cambridge and Oxford on a variety of subjects mostly to do with Italian Fascism, Catholicism or the modern Papacy.

Other Professional Activities

Emeritus Professor of Modern European History, Anglia Ruskin University

Member of the Academic Board of the International Centre for Historical Studies, University of Rome, La Sapienza.

Keywords

  • World History

Key Publications

 

  • The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-1932: A Study in Conflict, CUP, 1985
  • Papal Diplomacy in the Modern Age, edited with Peter Kent, Praeger, 1994
  • The Fascist Experience in Italy, Routledge, 1998
  • The Unknown Pope: Benedict XV(1914-1922) and the Pursuit of Peace, Geoffrey Chapman, 1999(published by Edizioni S. Paolo, 2001, as Il Papa Sconosciuto)
  • Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850-1950, CUP, 2004(published by Corbaccio, Milan, 2006, as L'Obolo di Pietro: Le finanze del papato moderno, 1850-1950 and by Merlusina, Barcelona, 2007, as El Vaticano y sus banqueros
  • Catholicism in Modern Italy: Religion, Society and Politics since 1861, Routledge, 2008
  • 'Fascism and Catholicism', in R.J.B. Bosworth(ed.), The Handbook of Fascism, OUP, 2009 
  • 'Fascism and Religion', in A. Costa Pinto(ed.), Re-thinking the Nature of Fascism: Comparative Perspectives, Palgrave MacMillan, 2011

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