Introduction : Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands and the historical imagination in the nineteenth-century: an introduction / Michael Wintle From Waterloo Field to Bruges-la-Morte. Historical imagination in the nineteenth ; Century / Niek van Sas The scope and language of national history. ; A very English affair? Defining the borders of empire in nineteenth-century British historiography / Andrew Mycock Who is the nation and what does it do? The discursive construction of the nation in Belgian and Dutch national histories of the romantic period / Marnix Beyen The colonies in the Dutch national museums for art and history (1800-1885) ; Three historical fiction and collective identity. ; 'Retro-fitting the past': literary historicism between the golden spurs and Waterloo / Joep Leerssen The Victorians, the Dark Ages and English national identity / Joanne Parker 'A true conception of history': 'making the past part of the present' in late Victorian historical romances / Anna Vaninskaya The past imagined in the visual arts. ; Picturing patriotism: the image of the artist-hero and the Belgian nation state, 1830-1900 / Jenny Graham A few painters, a few heroes and many factory workers: in search of the historical culture of Belgian immigrants in northern France, 1850-1914 / Saartje Vanden Borre and Tom Verschaffel 'Retracing the history of our country': national history painting and engraving in Britain and the Low Countries during the nineteenth century / Hugh Dunthorne. | 
