Journal of Belgian History XLV, 2015, 1

This issue contains four articles with a wide variety of political, cultural and social themes from the nineteenth as well as the twentieth century. The following topics will be discussed: The Royal Flemish Theatre after the Second World War, Belgium and NATO during the Hungarian crisis of 1956, politics and party formation in the city of Mechelen during the nineteenth century and the problematic of vagrancy and begging around 1900.