Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Ken Haley: An Appreciation -- Part One Introduction -- Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands and the Historical Imagination in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction -- Chapter One From Waterloo Field to Bruges-la-Morte. Historical Imagination in the Nineteenth Century -- Part Two The Scope and Language of National History -- Chapter Two A Very English Affair? Defining the Borders of Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Historiography -- Chapter Three 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 -- Chapter Four The Colonies in Dutch National Museums for Art and History (1800-1885) -- Part Three Historical Fiction and Collective Identity -- Chapter Five 'Retro-Fitting the Past': Literary Historicism between the Golden Spurs and Waterloo -- Chapter Six The Victorians, the Dark Ages and English National Identity -- Chapter Seven 'A True Conception of History': 'Making the Past Part of the Present' in Late Victorian Historical Romances -- Part Four The Past Imagined in the Visual Arts -- Chapter Eight Picturing Patriotism: The Image of the Artist-Hero and the Belgian Nation State, 1830-1900 -- Chapter Nine A Few Painters, A Few Heroes and Many Factory Workers: In Search of the Historical Culture of Belgian Immigrants in Northern France, 1850-1914 -- Chapter Ten 'Retracing the History of our Country': National History Painting and Engraving in Britain and the Low Countries in the Nineteenth Century -- General Bibliography -- Fifty Years of Anglo-Dutch Historical Conferences and Britain and the Netherlands Published Volumes, 1959-2012 -- Index.