Boeing Commemorative Lecture 2014: Choice or accident? The outbreak of the First World War 

Excellent! Margret gives us so many things to think about.

Excellent!

The last two efforts written by this noted historian should give us all pause to reflect, and to consider (or reconsider) the lessons of the first World War which we in 2015 are responsible for. Very well done. Thank you again for this presentation.

Just a tip to event organisers: 9 minutes of intros from people no-one came to hear is excessive

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Very apt that a lecture on something we should call a massive disaster should be sponsored by Boeing and have in its title the false dichotomy "Choice or Accident"

For me, UK/France/Germany being so close was always going to lead to wars. What would have happened if Germany was geographically where Argentina is now? It grows, it's obviously more powerful than the ten nearest countries but there's also a giant neighbour which is maybe unconquerable.

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I would really like to know since Macmillan seems to be so objective about globalization down Through the Ages, what MacMillan thinks of the recent census in the UK that lists 1/6 of all people in Britain notice I did not say all citizens I said all people are foreign born. And with it comes the division through balkanization and ultimate destruction of the fabric of British Society when foreign ethnic and cultural and socioeconomic problems are imported into the UK along with this flood of near majority crimigrants. Honor killings, female genital mutilations, Hindu versus Muslim sectarian violence, swamped government services if they even exist anymore for housing, education, Healthcare, and food relief, entire microcosms within London whose street names and Shop names are in foreign languages that don't even use the Greek alphabetic letters, Mass grooming known by its more accurate term as public raping, neighborhoods where police are instructed not to patrol if they value their lives, etc, etc. As an adoring fan of McMillan, I would like to know her thoughts. And to my Global elitist detractors, I'm born and bred American but I can see this is one case where if Britain sneezes America is going to catch cold very soon.

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38:10 '....the glamour of war...' Early in the war many young men in Britain volunteered to join up, I'm sure it was because they didn't want to miss out on the adventure. Later, perhaps when more people were aware of what the fighting meant, the government had to resort to compulsory conscription to keep up the number of soldiers.

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