Tony Pollard

Tony Pollard is an academic and broadcaster. He is Professor of Conflict History and Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and has carried out pioneering archaeological investigations across the globe and as a forensic archaeologist has worked with police forces in the UK.

Whether he’s writing academic papers or books for a wider audience his passion lies in storytelling. His first novel, The Secrets of the Lazarus Club was published by Penguin in 2008, and when marking essays comes to an end, he looks forward to writing more fiction.

He is a familiar face on television, and since popularising battlefield archaeology with the BBC series Two Men in a Trench has gone on to make regular appearances in history shows like Nazi Megastructures and Defending Europe.