Margaret Macmillan

Margaret Olwen MacMillan (born 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a historian and professor at the University of Toronto and is also Provost of Trinity College. She is the great-granddaughter of Prime Minister Lloyd George of Britain, and her sister is married to British newscaster Peter Snow.

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1943 - Toronto, Ontario - Canada - University of Toronto - Trinity College - Lloyd George - Britain - Peter Snow

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In 1946, her family moved to England when her father, a doctor in the navy, went there to study for a year. Margaret MacMillan would only return to England at age 15 when she was sent there to complete high school before returning to her family in Canada.

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She received her B.A. from the University of Toronto before receiving her Ph.D. from Oxford University. From 1975 to 2002 she was a professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is the author of Women of the Raj, a selection of the "History Book Club." In addition to numerous articles and reviews on a variety of Canadian and world affairs, Ms. Macmillan has co-edited books dealing with Canada's international relations, including with NATO, and with Canadian-Australian relations.

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Oxford University - 1975 - 2002 - Ryerson University - Toronto - Women of the Raj - NATO

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Her most successful and celebrated work is ', also published as Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, which 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.

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Duff Cooper Prize - Hessell-Tiltman Prize - Samuel Johnson Prize - United Kingdom - 2003 Governor General's Literary Award

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She teaches courses on the history of international relations, including a seminar on the history of the Cold War.

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