Staff profile

• Cultural history of science and medicine post 1600
• Visual culture
• Portraiture 1500 onwards
• The nature of historical practice, including ethics

Authored book

• Physicians and Their Images
  
  Jordanova, L. (2018). Physicians and Their Images. Royal College of Physicians.
• The Look of the Past: Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice
  
  Jordanova, L. (2012). The Look of the Past: Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice. Cambridge University Press.
• Defining features: scientific and medical portraits 1660-2000
  
  Jordanova, L. (2000). Defining features: scientific and medical portraits 1660-2000. Reaktion Books.

Book review

• ‘Image Matters’
  
  Jordanova, L. (2008). ‘Image Matters’. Historical Journal, 51(03), 777-791. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x08007024

Chapter in book

• “Science, Memory and Relics in Britain”
  
  Jordanova, L. (2016). “Science, Memory and Relics in Britain”. In M. Beretta, M. Conforti, & P. Mazzarello (Eds.), Savant Relics: Brains and Remains of Scientists. (pp. 157-181). Science History Publications.
• Approaching Visual Materials
  
  Jordanova, L. (2016). Approaching Visual Materials. In L. Faire & S. Gunn (Eds.), Research Methods for History (pp. 30-47). Edinburgh University Press.
• "Erkenne Dich selbst!“ Reflexionen über medizinische Präsentationen in öffentlichen Ausstellungen
  
  Jordanova, L. (2015). "Erkenne Dich selbst!“ Reflexionen über medizinische Präsentationen in öffentlichen Ausstellungen. In S. Nikolow (Ed.), Erkenne Dich selbst! : Strategien der Sichtbarmachung des Körpers im 20. Jahrhundert (pp. 118-130). Bönlau Verlag. https://doi.org/10.7788/9783412217693-007
• Photography and Greece - A Historian's Perspective
  
  Jordanova, L. (2015). Photography and Greece - A Historian’s Perspective. In P. Carabott & Y. Hamilakis (Eds.), Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narrative, Materialities. (pp. 361-366). Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College, London.
• "Portraiture, Beauty, Pain"
  
  Jordanova, L. (2015). "Portraiture, Beauty, Pain". In C. Saunders, J. Macnaughton, & D. Fuller (Eds.), The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine. (pp. 199-216). Palgrave Macmillan.
• Medicine and the Visual Arts
  
  Jordanova, L. (2014). Medicine and the Visual Arts. In V. Bates, A. Bleakley, & S. Goodman (Eds.), Medicine, Health and the Arts (pp. 41-63). Routledge.
• ‘Approaching Visual Materials’
  
  Jordanova, L. (2012). ‘Approaching Visual Materials’. In S. Gunn & L. Faire (Eds.), Research Methods for History (pp. 30-47). Edinburgh University Press.
• ‘The Practice of Cultural History in Britain’, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
  
  Jordanova, L. (2011). ‘The Practice of Cultural History in Britain’, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. In J. Rogge (Ed.), Cultural History in Europe. Institutions – Themes – Perspectives (pp. 63-78).
• ‘Is this a Portrait I see before me?’
  
  Jordanova, L. (2010). ‘Is this a Portrait I see before me?’. In Beth Fisher: Grisaille Legacy (pp. 11-19). Royal Scottish Aacademy, Edinburgh.
• ‘What’s in a Name? Portraits of the Inner World’
  
  Jordanova, L. (2010). ‘What’s in a Name? Portraits of the Inner World’. In Portraits: Patients and Psychiatrists (pp. 25-8). published by the artist, Gemma Anderson, to accompany her exhibition.
• ‘History, Photography and Skilled Handiwork’, in both English and Italian
  
  Jordanova, L. (2010). ‘History, Photography and Skilled Handiwork’, in both English and Italian. In Artigiani (pp. 9-19). Published by the photographer, Francesco Filangeri, to accompany his exhibition.
• ‘Visualizing Identity’
  
  Jordanova, L. (2010). ‘Visualizing Identity’. In G. Walker & E. Leedham-Green (Eds.), Identity (pp. 127-156). Cambridge University Press.
• ‘Picture-Talking: Portraiture and Conversation in Britain, 1800-1830’
  
  Jordanova, L. (2008). ‘Picture-Talking: Portraiture and Conversation in Britain, 1800-1830’. In K. Halsey & J. Slinn (Eds.), The Concept and Practice of Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1848 (pp. 151-169). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• ‘Marking Time’
  
  Jordanova, L. (2007). ‘Marking Time’. In H. Hoock (Ed.), History, Commemoration, and National Preoccupation: Trafalgar 1805-2005 (pp. 7-17). Oxford University Press for the British Academy.

Edited book

• The Enlightenment and its shadows
  
  Hulme, P., & Jordanova, L. (Eds.). (1990). The Enlightenment and its shadows. Routledge.

Journal Article

• The Monarchs’ History Men: What Has Changed over Three Centuries?
  
  Jordanova, L. (2025). The Monarchs’ History Men: What Has Changed over Three Centuries? The Historical Journal, 68(4), 921-942. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x24000797
• Touching Visions: Afterword
  
  Jordanova, L. (2024). Touching Visions: Afterword. Nuncius, 39, 444-450. https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10102
• Portraiture, Biography and Public Histories
  
  Jordanova, L. (2022). Portraiture, Biography and Public Histories. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 32, 159-175. https://doi.org/10.1017/s008044012200007x
• Historical Vision in a Digital Age
  
  Jordanova, L. (2014). Historical Vision in a Digital Age. Cultural and Social History, volume 11(number 3), 343-348.
• ‘What’s in a Name? Historians and Theory’
  
  Jordanova, L. (2011). ‘What’s in a Name? Historians and Theory’. English Historical Review, 126(523), 1456-1177. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cer315
• ‘Keith Brown Memorial Lecture. Medical Portraiture: the Case of William Harvey’
  
  Jordanova, L. (n.d.). ‘Keith Brown Memorial Lecture. Medical Portraiture: the Case of William Harvey’. Liverpool Medical Institution Transactions and Report, 15-21.