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HISTORY NOEL MALCOLM IS NOT CONVINCED BY AN ORANGE-TINTED VIEW OF ENGLAND'S PAST
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Going Dutch: How England
Plundered Holland's Glory
BY LISA JARDINE
HARPERPRESS, pounds 25, 406 pp
T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
When was the last time that England was conquered by a foreign
army?
Most people would say: in 1066. But there is another answer,
depending on what exactly you mean by 'conquered'. On 5 November
1688 William of Orange arrived at Torbay with an armada of more than
450 vessels. Roughly 20,000 soldiers were disem...
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Revolution? A garden party
The Independent - London
; Going Dutch By Lisa Jardine HARPERPRESS Pounds 25 (406pp) Pounds 22.50 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 On 1 November 1688, inviolate England was invaded by a foreign power: 500 ships, 20,000 soldiers and a further 20,000 marines, and a prince named William of Orange, took the throne of England from
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A shot that echoed around the world Susan Brigden on why the assassination of William the Silent in 1584 made such a big noise in the courts of Europe
The Sunday Telegraph London
; THE MOMENT on July 10, 1584 when a Catholic assassin entered the Prinsenhof in Delft and shot and killed William the Silent was, Lisa Jardine contends in her short new book, a landmark ``along the horizon of the past an intervention which in an instant changed the course of European history. In
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THE AWFUL END OF WILLIAM THE SILENT: THE FIRST ASSASSINATION OF A HEAD OF STATE WITH A HANDGUN
The Spectator
; Murder made easy THE AWFUL END OF WILLIAM THE SILENT: THE FIRST ASSASSINATION OF A HEAD OF STATE WITH A HANDGUN by Lisa Jardine HarperCollins, 12.99, pp. 175, ISBN 0007192576 11.99 (plus 2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 What is one to make of this little book? There is much that is good in it, about new
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Lisa Jardine: in the 20th article in his quarterly series about today's historians, Daniel Snowman meets the Renaissance and Shakespeare scholar, historian of science and biographer of Erasmus, Bacon, Wren and Hooke.(Today's History)
History Today
; ... and what Hooke's. At times, English, French and Dutch scientists were working together to develop better clocks and watches, maps and navigation charts even when their countries were at war. There are other respects, too, in which Jardine's new books build ...
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How do the Dutch say finis? (economic problems with the Dutch language)
U.S. News & World Report
; It was probably the Dutch who taught Americans to hustle, so Americans owe the Dutch a lot and will be sorry to hear that the Dutch language is in trouble. As Europe's internal frontiers fade away in 1992, the big tongues of the European Community, led by English, will lick across old boundaries
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Fertility and history.(History as it Happens)(Lisa Jardine to be new chairwoman of the British fertility watchdog)(Brief article)
History Today
; Lisa Jardine, historian of science and broadcaster, from Queen Mary, University of London, is to become the new chairwoman of the British fertility watchdog. Professor Jardine takes over the post on April 1st at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).
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Book reviews: On a Grander Scale: A scientific genius who was architect of his own destiny
Scotland on Sunday
; ON A GRANDER SCALE Lisa Jardine HarperCollins, GBP 25 CHRISTOPHER Wren was a scientist before embarking on his career in architecture - "rubbish", as he called it - that made him famous. He was a virtuoso mathematician, pioneering physician and professor of astronomy. A fascinating and ideal
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BOOKS: a book that changed me LISA JARDINE on Robert Musil's 'A Man Without Qualities'
The Independent - London
; When did you first read it? I was a graduate student at Cambridge when someone lent me a copy of Robert Musil's unfinished novel, A Man Without Qualities (written between the World Wars). I'd gone to Cambridge to read mathematics, which I loved, then changed to English rather unhappily after two
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GLOBAL GALLERY: THE 50 BEST PAINTINGS WORLDWIDE Fancy an art expedition? asks Charlotte Mullins. Our cultured curators have hung here a unique collection of what they consider the finest examples of painting the world over. So take a Supersaver to Aberdeen or a scheduled flight to Boston; you'll never regret making an aesthetic pilgrimage
The Independent - London
; THE PANEL Lisa Jardine's book Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution, is published by Little, Brown. Tom Lubbock is art critic for The Independent. Tim Marlow is the editor of tate: the art magazine. His TV series, High 5, featuring the nation's favourite paintings, is on Channel 5
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Urban Legend; A study of the life and times of England's Leonardo.
The Washington Post
; THE CURIOUS LIFE OF ROBERT HOOKE The Man Who Measured London By Lisa Jardine. HarperCollins. 432 pp. $27.95. Robert Hooke is usually remembered, when he is remembered at all, for having lost out in arguments with Isaac Newton over who should be credited for theories about the nature of light and
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