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Publication Dates

The amazon.com entry seems to indicate that Women of the Raj was published in 1988, not 1998 as is written here. Wachowich 13:59, 23 February 2007

Trivia

The Globe and Mail has mentioned she was approached to run as a Liberal Candiate, but declined due to prior commitments. This is not worth mentioning at this time. There is other information in the [1] which could be included. I don't want to change the format of this entry, so I'm just making you aware of this information source. Clerks 16:44, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If Professor MacMillan only declined because of prior commitments then I would say it certainly is worth mentioning. Unless of course that was a mere subterfuge. However, it would indicate that she is a member of the Liberal Party and if she were an aloof academic who wanted to keep herself pure and unspotted from the world that would not be the case at all. Nor should it be included under the rubric of "trivia." Masalai (talk) 05:28, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name of this article

Ok, I've moved the article Margaret MacMillan (historian) back to the main hit for Margaret MacMillan. I have provided a toplink disambig for the other Margaret MacMillan and at this time a disambig page seems redundant. caese December 13, 2006.

This is an unnecessary disambig. Margaret MacMillan (the historian) should be the default hit for the search Margaret MacMillan. This is the only significantly worked wikipeida subject. caese

For some reason, this was not completed, or reversed. I picked it up again below.

Is anyone else bothered by the name "Margaret MacMillan (historian)"? That means that if one searches Wikipedia for "Margaret MacMillan" one gets a disambiguation page. The disambiguation lists only two names:

Margaret MacMillan (historian) (born 1943), Canadian historian
Margaret McMillan (1860–1931), nursery education pioneer

Note that the nursery education pioneer's name is spelt differently. This doesn't seem appropriate for a disambiguation page — particularly since the spelling of the names is different, but also since there are only two names. However, more telling is a google search for "Margaret MacMillan." Thousands of entries all point to our subject. I think that Margaret MacMillan is notable enough to have an article about herself bearing just her name (dropping the "historian" tag). Anyone care to comment on this? If there are no objections, I will merge the article with the disambiguation page (leaving the disambiguation note for the nursery education pioneer at the top of the page). Sunray 15:47, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've now completed this change with the following actions:

Converted the disambiguation page (titled "Margaret MacMillan") to the article.
Created redirects to the above page for the "Margaret MacMillan (historian) and Talk:Margaret MacMillan (historian) pages.
Sorted through the "Pages linked here" for Margaret MacMillan (historian) and bypassed the redirect (still some to complete).
Added a disambiguation note to Margaret McMillan (the nursery education pioneer).

I hope that these changes serve to improve the logic and functionality of these articles. Sunray 17:10, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relationships mixed up!

She is the sister-in-law to Peter Snow, the aunt of Dan Snow. --62.143.245.76 (talk) 01:44, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Reith lectures

This article could mention that Macmillan presented the Reith lectures, "The Mark of Cain", in 2018. Vorbee (talk) 08:06, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welsh and Scottish

I am sure I heard Margaret Macmillan say on Desert Island Discs on Saint David's Day 2019 that her mother was Welsh, her father is Scottish. If this is right, it could be added to the section on her family. Vorbee (talk) 09:16, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography

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Pritzker Military Literature Award Recipient for 2021

She was named the Pritzker Military Literature Award Recipient for 2021. See: