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John Leonard Duncan Mackenzie (22 May 1928 – 8 June 2011) was a Scottish film director who worked in British film from the late 1960s, first as an assistant director and later as an independent director himself.
John Mackenzie was a British missionary who was a constant champion of the rights of Africans in Southern Africa and a proponent of British intervention to curtail the spread of Boer influence, especially over the lands of the Tswana (“Bechuana” in older variant orthography) peoples.
John MacDonald MacKenzie FRHistS FRSE (born 2 October 1943) is a British historian of imperialism who pioneered the study of popular and cultural imperialism, as well as aspects of environmental history. He has also written about Scottish migration and the development of museums around the world.
John Mackenzie. Director: The Long Good Friday. A solid and reliable filmmaker with frequent flairs of brilliance, Mackenzie gave up a career in acting because of a desire to control what he was doing.
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Nov 12, 2019 · John MacKenzie changed how British imperial history is conceived, researched, and written about. The evolution from the understanding of the British Empire as something that the dominant metropolis imposed upon the colonial periphery to something that had, via...
John Mackenzie, film and television director: born Edinburgh 22 May 1928; married 1956 Wendy Marshall (died 2003; three daughters); died Mountfield, East Sussex 8 June 2011.
This book celebrates the career of the eminent historian of the British Empire John M. MacKenzie, who pioneered the examination of the impact of the Empire on metropolitan culture. It focuses on the cultural impact of empire, 'Four-Nations' history, and global and transnational perspectives.
In the long history of British relationships with southern Africa, or Austral Africa as Mackenzie liked to call it, there are many examples of personal initiative that influenced policy and changed the face of the map.
Professor John MacKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University. He is one of the foremost historians of imperialism, of any period, and a scholar who also has an outstanding reputation in the field of environmental history.
Jun 8, 2011 · John Mackenzie was a British film director perhaps best known for the 1980 gangster film The Long Good Friday. Born in Edinburgh, Mackenzie worked in British film from the late 1960s, first as an assistant director to Ken Loach on productions such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home, before becoming an independent director himself, going on ...
