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 whig historian. Rejecting romantic invocations of liberty, he extolled instead the sovereign nation state, pinpointing the 16th century as the moment when it was achieved. Pollard rejected anachronistic accounts of parliament's development: for him, the assembly had grown by accident (out of the medieval king's council), rather than by design. This adaptability had ensured parliament's longevity and would preserve it into the future. Pollard revered the English parliament all the more for its embodiment of this national good fortune. Pollard helped to professionalise the discipline of history, but his own writings could be found wanting when measured against the standards that he had advocated. Criticism of his approach and assumptions comes easily now. Yet, upon reacquaintance, historians of parliament may find enduring interest in Pollard's shrewd and extensive work.

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AF波拉德（AF Pollard）现在因创立历史研究所而被人们铭记，而不是因为获得奖学金而被人们所铭记。然而，在他的鼎盛时期，波拉德是一位强大而多产的历史学家，主要是议会和都铎时期的历史学家。波拉德既是现代主义者，也是辉格党历史学家。他拒绝浪漫主义的自由诉求，反而称赞了主权民族国家，指出16世纪是实现这一目标的时刻。波拉德拒绝了议会发展的过时说法：对他来说，议会是出于偶然（出于中世纪国王的议会）而不是出于设计目的而增长的。这种适应性确保了议会的长寿，并将保留到未来。波拉德（Pollard）因其体现了这个国家的好运而倍受英国议会的尊敬。Pollard帮助使历史学科专业化，但是按照他所倡导的标准衡量，他的著作可能会显得很匮乏。现在对他的方法和假设的批评很容易。然而，重新认识后，议会的历史学家可能会对Pollard精明而广泛的工作产生持久的兴趣。