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Margaret Olwen MacMillan, (born 23 December 1943) is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford. She is former provost of Trinity College, Toronto , and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) .
Margaret McMillan was born to James and Jean McMillan in Westchester County, New York, on 20 July 1860. Her parents were from Inverness but had emigrated to the United States in 1840. When she was four an epidemic of Scarlet fever killed her father and sister and left Margaret deaf (she recovered her hearing at the age of fourteen).
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2001) is a historical narrative about the events of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.It was written by the Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan with a foreword by the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke.
Historian Margaret MacMillan writing for The New York Times calls the book a "good wake up call", [4] while Tim Adams in a review for The Guardian describes the book as "persuasive", "chilling and unignorable" [3] and a review in Fair Observer calls it an "important addition to the literature explaining current events" and rising authoritarianism.
Margaret McMillan College was a British teacher-training college in Bradford. It was established in 1952, [ 1 ] and was named after the nursery school pioneer, Margaret McMillan . The founding of the college and a trust was driven by McMillan's friend and supporter Miriam Lord , who campaigned from 1945 to raise funds. [ 2 ]
Margaret MacMillan in her history of the Paris Peace Conference "Paris 1919; Six Months That Changed The World" mentions in passing (page 73) that "The Young Visiters", "a comic novel written by a child", was "the most popular book of 1919".
Beryl Margaret Te Wiata (née McMillan; 15 April 1925 – 4 May 2017) was a New Zealand actor, author, and scriptwriter. Early life and family Born in ...
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind in 1936 [5] Rachel Field's All This, and Heaven Too in 1938; Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber in 1944 [6] C. S. Lewis; Marianne Moore [7] Ayn Rand's book We the Living in 1936 [8] Cathy Scott's The Murder of Biggie Smalls in 2001 [9] Doug Worgul's Thin Blue Smoke in 2009 [10] Michael Stewart