Medium (20-45 mins)
Ethics
Anglican
Nigel Biggar and Margaret MacMillan in Conversation on Colonialism
Theologian
Nigel Biggar
Duration
30.15
Uploaded to YouTube
11 December 2025
Added to Database
14 December 2025
YouTube description
This episode is the second of two taken from a CIHE event held in March 2025 with Oxford
Professor Nigel Biggar, recently appointed to the UK House of Lords, and Margaret
MacMillan, Companion of the Order of Canada.
This second part features the conversation between Lord Biggar and Professor MacMillan
that followed his opening statement. They examined the moral complexity of empires, especially the British Empire, and the modern push to revise or erase elements of
Canadian history. Margaret MacMillan calls for rigorous historical thinking, warning against
using history as a political weapon or reducing it to moral judgment.
http://www.margaretmacmillan.com/
https://cihe.ca/
