Lisa Jardine
Articles by Lisa Jardine
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Food
Why cod wins out over colonialism
- 06 June 2005
Is history the new cookery? Yes, judging by our appetite for books celebrating salt, chocolate and great men. We no longer want the past to challenge our assumptions; what we crave are stories that offer comfort and consolation for a world we have lost
Culture
Bodyworlds
- 21 July 2003
Museums - Lisa Jardine welcomes the revival of a dauntingly large collection of medical artefacts
Books
The diarist as novelist
- 30 September 2002
Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self Claire Tomalin Viking, 499pp, £20 ISBN 0670885681
Music
Labour of love
- 18 February 2002
Sonnets - Lisa Jardine gets in the mood for Valentine's Day with the Bard
Books
Gold-diggers
- 26 February 2001
The Philosopher's Stone: a quest for the secrets of alchemy Peter Marshall Macmillan, 545pp, £9.99 ISBN 033376367X
Culture
Inside out
- 27 November 2000
Art - Lisa Jardine on the horrifying beauty of the anatomised body
Books
The lust for blood. What triggers landmark events in history is often fictions that people believe, not events that actually took place
- 28 June 1999
Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late-Medieval Jews Miri Rubin Yale University Press, 266pp, £25
Books
Female muse
- 21 June 1999
George's Ghosts: A New Life of W B Yeats Brenda Maddox Picador, 444pp, £20
Books
Object of oppression
- 02 April 1999
Monica's Story Andrew Morton Michael O'Mara Books, 288pp, £16.99
