Lisa Jardine

Articles by Lisa Jardine

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Diary: Lisa Jardine

  • 05 March 2009
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Deciphering the meaning of “down time”

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

Bodyworlds

  • 21 July 2003

Museums - Lisa Jardine welcomes the revival of a dauntingly large collection of medical artefacts

The diarist as novelist

  • 30 September 2002

Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self Claire Tomalin Viking, 499pp, £20 ISBN 0670885681

Labour of love

  • 18 February 2002

Sonnets - Lisa Jardine gets in the mood for Valentine's Day with the Bard

Gold-diggers

  • 26 February 2001

The Philosopher's Stone: a quest for the secrets of alchemy Peter Marshall Macmillan, 545pp, £9.99 ISBN 033376367X

Inside out

  • 27 November 2000

Art - Lisa Jardine on the horrifying beauty of the anatomised body

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

Female muse

  • 21 June 1999

George's Ghosts: A New Life of W B Yeats Brenda Maddox Picador, 444pp, £20

Object of oppression

  • 02 April 1999

Monica's Story Andrew Morton Michael O'Mara Books, 288pp, £16.99

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James Macintyre

Brown at war

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Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Interview

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Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Film review

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