MacMillan was the 2018 Reith lecturer, giving five lectures across the globe on the theme of war under the title The Mark of Cain, the tour taking in London, York, Beirut, Belfast, and Ottawa.1
British popular historian and television presenter Dan Snow is her nephew.
Education
MacMillan received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in history from the University of Toronto, where she attended . She holds a (BPhil) degree in politics from , and a (DPhil) degree from St Antony's College, Oxford. Her doctoral dissertation was on the social and political perspectives of the : it was titled "Social and political attitudes of British expatriates in India, 1880–1920" and was submitted in 1974.
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From 1975 to 2002, she was a professor of history at Ryerson University in Toronto, including five years as department chair.4 She was Provost of Trinity College, Toronto from 2002 to 2007. From 2007 to 2017, she was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford,5 and Professor of International History at the University of Oxford.6 In December 2017, she became an honorary fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.7
She is the author of Women of the Raj. In addition to numerous articles and reviews on a variety of Canadian and world affairs, MacMillan has co-edited books dealing with Canada's international relations, including with NATO, and with Canadian–Australian relations.
From 1995 to 2003, MacMillan co-edited the International Journal, published by the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. She previously served as a member of the National Board of Directors of the CIIA, now the Canadian International Council, and currently sits on the International Journal's Editorial Board.8 She was the Young Memorial Visitor at Royal Military College of Canada in 2004 and delivered the J.D. Young Memorial Lecture on 24 November 2004.9
MacMillan's research has focused on the British Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and on international relations in the 20th century. Over the course of her career, she has taught a range of courses on the history of international relations. She is a member of the European Advisory Board of Princeton University Press.10
Recognition and honours
Her most successful work is Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War, also published as Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World.Peacemakers won the Duff Cooper Prize for outstanding literary work in the field of history, biography or politics; the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History; the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in the United Kingdom and the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award in Canada.
MacMillan often appears in the popular and literary press, with a focus on events surrounding the First World War. Examples in 2014 include her retrospective trip to Sarajevo on the centenary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand,2021 and interview wherein she saw similarities between then and 100 years before, remarked on the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and her perception that Vladimir Putin deplored Russia's place in contemporary politics, mentioned Iraq and the contention between China and Japan over the Senkaku Islands, and promoted the diplomatic corps.22
In September 2013, she was interviewed upon the release of her book The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914,23 and was invited to lecture at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History on "How Wars Start: The Outbreak of the First World War" near when she received an honorary doctorate from Huron College at the University of Western Ontario.23
MacMillan has written several op-eds for The New York Times. In December 2013, they abridged an essay of hers from the Brookings Institution,24 in which she wrote that "Globalization can have the paradoxical effect of fostering intense localism and nativism, frightening people into taking refuge in small like-minded groups. Globalization also makes possible the widespread transmission of radical ideologies and the bringing together of fanatics who will stop at nothing in their quest for the perfect society", and urged Western leaders to "build a stable international order" based on "a moment of real danger" which would unite the population in "coalitions able and willing to act".25
MacMillan, Margaret, and Patrick Quinton-Brown. "The uses of history in international society: from the Paris peace conference to the present." International Affairs 95.1 (2019): 181–200 online.
Thomas, Michael (June–July 2014). "Here because we're here". The London Magazine: 1271–30. Review of The War That Ended Peace.
St Antony's College, University of Oxford, "The Warden", St Antony's College, archived from the original on 15 September 2008, retrieved 21 February 2008 ↩
Carter, Graydon; MacMillan, Margaret; Clarkson, Stephen; Stein, Janice; Graham, Bill (11 September 2011). "Essays on the unexpected consequences of 9/11". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 12 September 2015. ↩
MacMillan was the 2018 Reith lecturer, giving five lectures across the globe on the theme of war under the title The Mark of Cain, the tour taking in London, York, Beirut, Belfast, and Ottawa.1
From 1975 to 2002, she was a professor of history at Ryerson University in Toronto, including five years as department chair.4 She was Provost of Trinity College, Toronto from 2002 to 2007. From 2007 to 2017, she was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford,5 and Professor of International History at the University of Oxford.6 In December 2017, she became an honorary fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.7
She is the author of Women of the Raj. In addition to numerous articles and reviews on a variety of Canadian and world affairs, MacMillan has co-edited books dealing with Canada's international relations, including with NATO, and with Canadian–Australian relations.
From 1995 to 2003, MacMillan co-edited the International Journal, published by the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. She previously served as a member of the National Board of Directors of the CIIA, now the Canadian International Council, and currently sits on the International Journal's Editorial Board.8 She was the Young Memorial Visitor at Royal Military College of Canada in 2004 and delivered the J.D. Young Memorial Lecture on 24 November 2004.9
MacMillan's research has focused on the British Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and on international relations in the 20th century. Over the course of her career, she has taught a range of courses on the history of international relations. She is a member of the European Advisory Board of Princeton University Press.10
Recognition and honours
Her most successful work is Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War, also published as Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World.Peacemakers won the Duff Cooper Prize for outstanding literary work in the field of history, biography or politics; the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History; the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in the United Kingdom and the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award in Canada.
MacMillan often appears in the popular and literary press, with a focus on events surrounding the First World War. Examples in 2014 include her retrospective trip to Sarajevo on the centenary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand,2021 and interview wherein she saw similarities between then and 100 years before, remarked on the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and her perception that Vladimir Putin deplored Russia's place in contemporary politics, mentioned Iraq and the contention between China and Japan over the Senkaku Islands, and promoted the diplomatic corps.22
In September 2013, she was interviewed upon the release of her book The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914,23 and was invited to lecture at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History on "How Wars Start: The Outbreak of the First World War" near when she received an honorary doctorate from Huron College at the University of Western Ontario.23
MacMillan has written several op-eds for The New York Times. In December 2013, they abridged an essay of hers from the Brookings Institution,24 in which she wrote that "Globalization can have the paradoxical effect of fostering intense localism and nativism, frightening people into taking refuge in small like-minded groups. Globalization also makes possible the widespread transmission of radical ideologies and the bringing together of fanatics who will stop at nothing in their quest for the perfect society", and urged Western leaders to "build a stable international order" based on "a moment of real danger" which would unite the population in "coalitions able and willing to act".25
MacMillan, Margaret, and Patrick Quinton-Brown. "The uses of history in international society: from the Paris peace conference to the present." International Affairs 95.1 (2019): 181–200 online.
Thomas, Michael (June–July 2014). "Here because we're here". The London Magazine: 1271–30. Review of The War That Ended Peace.
St Antony's College, University of Oxford, "The Warden", St Antony's College, archived from the original on 15 September 2008, retrieved 21 February 2008 ↩
Carter, Graydon; MacMillan, Margaret; Clarkson, Stephen; Stein, Janice; Graham, Bill (11 September 2011). "Essays on the unexpected consequences of 9/11". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 12 September 2015. ↩