Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

List of Illustrations

pp.：  7 – 8

Preface

pp.：  9 – 10

Notes on Contributors

pp.：  11 – 16

Ken Haley: An Appreciation

pp.：  17 – 22

Part One Introduction

pp.：  23 – 24

Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands and the Historical Imagination in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction

pp.：  25 – 40

Chapter One From Waterloo Field to Bruges-la-Morte. Historical Imagination in the Nineteenth Century

pp.：  41 – 64

Part Two The Scope and Language of National History

pp.：  65 – 66

Chapter Two A Very English Affair? Defining the Borders of Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Historiography

pp.：  67 – 88

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

pp.：  89 – 108

Chapter Four The Colonies in Dutch National Museums for Art and History (1800–1885)

pp.：  109 – 132

Part Three Historical Fiction and Collective Identity

pp.：  133 – 134

Chapter Five ‘Retro-Fitting the Past’: Literary Historicism between the Golden Spurs and Waterloo

pp.：  135 – 154

Chapter Six The Victorians, the Dark Ages and English National Identity

pp.：  155 – 172

Chapter Seven ‘A True Conception of History’: ‘Making the Past Part of the Present’ in Late Victorian Historical Romances

pp.：  173 – 190

Part Four The Past Imagined in the Visual Arts

pp.：  191 – 192

Chapter Eight Picturing Patriotism: The Image of the Artist-Hero and the Belgian Nation State, 1830–1900

pp.：  193 – 220

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

pp.：  221 – 240

Chapter Ten ‘Retracing the History of our Country’: National History Painting and Engraving in Britain and the Low Countries in the Nineteenth Century

pp.：  241 – 264

General Bibliography

pp.：  265 – 280

Fifty Years of Anglo-Dutch Historical Conferences and Britain and the Netherlands Published Volumes, 1959–2012

pp.：  281 – 284

Index

pp.：  285 – 290