Because parliamentary history has entered the DNA of English and anglophone historiography, one readily forgets how unusual are its parameters and influence in wider historical writing in the West. This essay supplies a reminder that we can look sideways at that historiographical form and think about the place of parliamentary history in societies so different as those of the United States and Europe. Doing so reveals oddities in the place of parliamentary history in divergent cultures and brings into question the viability of the subject in the light of current persuasions that have become hegemonic – the cultural, the gendered, the global. The enquiry concludes that the future of parliamentary history will rest on its ability to come to terms with some of those persuasions and relocate itself within their imperatives.

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国会历史：一瞥斜线*

由于议会历史已进入英语和英语史学的DNA之中，人们很容易忘记了这与众不同是其在西方更广泛的历史著作中的参数和影响。这篇文章提醒我们，我们可以侧重于这种史学形式，并思考议会历史在与美国和欧洲不同的社会中的地位。这样做揭示了议会历史在不同文化中的独特地位，并根据当前已成为霸权的说服性（文化，性别，全球）质疑了该主题的可行性。调查得出的结论是，议会历史的未来将取决于它能否与某些说服力达成和解，并在其职责范围内重新定位自己。