Margaret MacMillan on Writing History, and Stephen Leacock
Margaret MacMillan was educated at the University of Toronto and at Oxford, where she obtained a B. Phil. in politics and a D. Phil. for a thesis on the British in India between 1880 and 1920. Her books include Women of the Raj, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, which won the 2003 Governor General\u2019s Award, the Samuel Johnson Prize, the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize and was a New York Times Editors\u2019 Choice for 2002, Nixon in China, The Uses and Abuses of History, and most recently Penguin\u2019s Extraordinary Canadians:\xa0 Stephen Leacock. \xa0Currently, MacMillan is the Warden of St. Anthony\u2019s College, Oxford University. \xa0 We met recently in Montreal at the Blue Met Writers Festival. I posed a simple question: Referencing the two most recent books you have authored: How do you write history? Please listen here to a comprehensive, \xa0enthusiastic answer that addresses research, records, racism, other potential worlds, being of your time, Iraq, lessons, dangers, inevitable biases, humour and Stephen Leacock\u2019s legacy. \xa0
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