MacMillan’s fascination with the narrative of empire remained unshaken by the fashionable tastes of the “new history”.
At a time when the traditional discipline of history was under assault, Dr. in hand, she took up a teaching position at Ryerson University, where until 2002 she taught International Relations, Modern European History, Contemporary Third World and History of Modern China. Her enthusiasm for history took her to Oxford, where she pursued her studies first at St. MacMillan attended Trinity College at the University of Toronto. In the early 1960s, after an education at schools in both Canada and England, Dr. It has become the linking thread in her life. MacMillan, a love of history-especially imperial history-is bred in the bone. Her grandmother was the eldest daughter of David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1916 to 1922. MacMillan’s emotional connection with Great Britain goes even deeper. MacMillan’s 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. MacMillan was raised in a transatlantic household where the emotional connection with Great Britain and the British Empire was very real.
I want to tell you something of the journey that has brought her to this successful point in her career.īorn in Toronto during the Second World War, Dr. This international best-seller has been widely acclaimed and showered with awards and accolades of praise. Margaret MacMillan is best known for her recent publication, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World. Margaret MacMillan, a renowned scholar whose specialty is the study of politicians and their profound impact on our lives.ĭr. Tonight, we are welcoming our first historian, Dr. MacEachen Lecture series has hosted an illustrious array of prime ministers, premiers and political advisors. Since its inauguration in 1996, the annual Allan J.
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