Margaret MacMillan

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Margaret MacMillan  link Amazon C-SPAN NNDB Website Wikiquote (Historian, academic)
Born	Margaret Olwen MacMillan 23 December 1943 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	St Hilda's College (Oxford), St Antony's College (Oxford), University of Toronto
Relatives	Dan Snow
Canadian multi-Bilderberger and staunch transatlantic historian

Margaret Olwen MacMillan is a transatlantic Canadian historian. For MacMillan, an historian of the British Empire, "a love of imperial history is bred in the bone".

From 1995 to 2003, MacMillan co-edited the International Journal, published by the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. She attended four Bilderberg meetings between 1998 and 2003.

Background

Her grandmother was the eldest daughter of David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1916 to 1922.

Born in Toronto during the Second World War, MacMillan was raised in a transatlantic household where the emotional connection with Great Britain and the British Empire was very real. Her father was a University of Toronto-trained medical doctor of Scottish lineage, while her mother was the product of a childhood spent partly in India where her father was one-time physician to the Viceroy, Lord Reading.

Education

In the early 1960s, after an education at schools in both Canada and England, MacMillan attended Trinity College at the University of Toronto, then to Oxford, where she pursued her studies first at St. Hilda’s College and later St. Antony’s College.

Academic career

From 1975 to 2002, she was a professor of history at Ryerson University in Toronto, including five years as department chair. She was Provost of Trinity College, Toronto from 2002 to 2007. From 2007 to 2017, she was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and Professor of International History at the University of Oxford. In December 2017, she became an honorary fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

MacMillan's research has focused on the British Empire in the late 19th and early 20^th centuries and on international relations in the 20^th century.

MacMillan has sat on the boards of the Canadian Institute for International Affairs, the Atlantic Council of Canada, the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Historica and the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy (Canada). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto. She has honorary degrees from the University of King's College, the Royal Military College of Canada and Ryerson University, Toronto.

Activities

MacMillan has co-edited books dealing with Canada's international relations, including with NATO, and with Canadian–Australian relations.

She is the author of a book on the Versailles Treaty Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, and History’s People: Personalities and the Past.

From 1995 to 2003, MacMillan co-edited the International Journal, published by the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.