Prof Lisa Jardine

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Lisa Jardine CBE is Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, and holds honorary doctorates from the University of St Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University and the Open University. She is a Trustee of the V&A Museum and was for five years a member of the Council of the Royal Institution. She is Patron of the Archives & Records Association and the Orange Prize. For the academic year 2007-8 she was seconded to the Royal Society as Advisor to its Collections. In April 2008 she took up the post of Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Professor Jardine writes and reviews widely for the media, and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current affairs programmes for TV and radio. She is a regular writer and presenter of 'A point of view', on BBC Radio 4: a book of the first two series of her talks was published by Preface Publishing in March 2008 and a second — Another Point of View — in 2009. She judged the 1996 Whitbread Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, the 2000 Orwell Prize and was Chair of Judges for the 1997 Orange Prize and the 2002 Man Booker Prize.

Lisa Jardine has published over fifty scholarly articles in refereed journals and books, and seventeen full-length books, both for an academic and for a general readership, a number of them in co-authorship with others. She is the author of a number of best-selling general books, including Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution, and biographies of Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. Her most recent book on Anglo-Dutch reciprocal influence in the seventeenth century, entitled Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory, published by HarperCollins UK in 2008 and HarperCollins USA in 2009 was awarded the prestigious Cundill International Prize in History.

During the first semester of the 2008/9 academic year Professor Jardine was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, jointly sponsored by NIAS and the Royal Library in The Hague (the KB). In 2009/10 she was a Scaliger Visiting Fellow at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, and held the Sarton Chair and receive the Sarton Medal at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

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2009
Lisa Jardine. ‘Another Point of View’, London (2009)
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Lisa Jardine. ‘‘“Dear Song”: Scholarly whitewashing of the correspondence between Constantijn Huygens and Dorothea van Dorp’’ (2009)
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2008
Lisa Jardine. ‘A Point of View’, London (2008)
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Lisa Jardine. ‘Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory’, London (2008)
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Lisa Jardine. ‘‘The reputation of Sir Constantijn Huygens: Networker or Virtuoso?’’, Wassenaar, Netherlands (2008)
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Lisa Jardine. ‘‘De reputatie van Constantijn Huygens: netwerker of virtuoos?’’, The Hague, Netherlands (2008)
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Lisa Jardine. ‘‘An irregular life: Not a biography of Constantijn Huygens’’, Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England, Oxford (2008)
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2007
Lisa Jardine. ‘'Revisiting Rossi on Francis Bacon: Hands-on science'’, Advancement of Learning: Essays in Honour of Paolo Rossi, Florence, p.59-76 (2007)
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Lisa Jardine. ‘Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon, Francis and their Friends, by Daphne du Maurier’ (2007)
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2006
Lisa Jardine. ‘"For short time an endless monument": the shifting history of a familiar London landmark’, The Historian, 09/2006, p.30-7 (2006)
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Lisa Jardine. ‘Scientists, sea trials and international espionage: who really invented the balance-spring watch?’, Antiquarian Horology, 09/2006, p.663-683 (2006)
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Robyn Adams, Lisa Jardine. ‘The return of the Hooke Folio’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 09/2006, Volume 60, Issue 3, p.235-239 (2006)
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Lisa Jardine. ‘Robert Hooke: A reputation restored’, Robert Hooke: Tercentennial studies, p.247-258 (2006)
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2005
Lisa Jardine. ‘The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: the first assassination of a head of state with a handgun’, Making History, London (2005)
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2004
Lisa Jardine. ‘Gloriana rules the waves: or, the advantage of being excommunicated and a woman’, Royal Historical Society Transactions, 12/2004, Volume 14, p.209-222 (2004)
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Lisa Jardine. ‘Dr Wilkins's boy wonders’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, Volume 58, p.107-29 (2004)
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Lisa Jardine. ‘Mapping space’, Space In Science, Art and Society, Cambridge, p.105-32 (2004)
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2003
Lisa Jardine. ‘Paper monuments and learned societies: the Hooke Royal Society Repository’, Enlightening the British: Knowledge, Discovery and the Museum in the Eighteenth Century, London, p.49-54 (2003)
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Lisa Jardine, J. Bennett, M. Cooper, M. Hunter. ‘Robert Hooke: London's Leonardo’, Oxford (2003)
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Lisa Jardine. ‘The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man who Measured London’ (2003)
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2002
Lisa Jardine. ‘Before Clarissa: Erasmus, 'Letters of Obscure Men', and epistolary fictions’, Self-Presentation and Social Identification: The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times, Number 18, Leuven (2002)
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Lisa Jardine. ‘On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren’ (2002)
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2001
Lisa Jardine. ‘Monuments and microscopes: scientific thinking on a grand scale in the early Royal Society’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society London, Volume 55, p.289-308 (2001)
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2000
Lisa Jardine. ‘Book ventures, cultural capital and enduring reputation in the Italian Renaissance’, Across Boundaries: The Book in Culture and Commerce, London, p.47-56 (2000)
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Lisa Jardine, Alan Stewart. ‘Editing a hero of modern science’, Books and the Sciences in History, Cambridge, p.354-68 (2000)
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