Guildhall Lectures

Last updated

The Guildhall Lectures were an annual series of talks on the theme of communication, organised by the British Association.

The lectures, held in the London Guildhall, were sponsored and broadcast by Granada Television. The first set of three lectures were held in 1959, [1] and they continued until at least 1984. Broadly on the theme of "Communication in the Modern World", they concerned the arts, sciences, politics and mass media. [2]

List of lectures

YearThemeSpeakers
1959Communication in the Modern World Edward Appleton, Eric Ashby, Edward Murrow
1960Communication in the Modern World Edgar Adrian, George W. Beadle, Hans Eysenck
1961Communication in the Modern World Hermann Bondi, James Gray, John Wolfenden
1962Communication in the Modern World John Kenneth Galbraith, Yoshinori Maeda, Yigael Yadin
1963Communication in the Modern World A. J. Ayer, Patrick Blackett, J. Zacharias
1964Communication in the Modern World William Holford, George Miller, Stein Rokkan
1965Communication in the Modern World Alistair Cooke, J. B. Rhine, Hyman G. Rickover
1966Telecommunications: The Next Ten Years Kenneth Clark, Sebastian De Ferranti, Francis McLean
1967Only Connect Asa Briggs, Hugh Cudlipp, Fred Friendly
1968Communication in the Modern World Lawrence Alloway, Paul Chambers, Richard Crossman
1969Universities: Boundaries of Change Paul Doty, Jack Straw, Albert Sloman
1970
1971
1972The Future of Broadcasting in Britain Hugh Greene
1973
1974The Freedom of the Press Harold Evans, Katharine Graham, David Windlesham
1975Government, Broadcasting and the Press Roy Jenkins
1976
1977Television Today and Tomorrow Noel Annan, Charles Curran, Brian Young
1978
1979
1980The Role of the Trade Unions Tony Benn, Len Murray, Jim Prior
1981
1982The Liberty of the Citizen John Hunt, John Mortimer, Franklin A. Thomas
1983
1984The Right to Know Floyd Abrams, Michael Kirby, Leslie Scarman
1985
1986
1987Will Cabinet Government Survive? Quintin Hogg
1988
1989Europe: Our Sort of Community Leon Brittan

Related Research Articles

Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences, and communication studies.

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz along with drama and production arts. The school has students from over seventy countries. Widely regarded as one of the leading performing arts institutions in the world, it was ranked first in both the Guardian’s 2022 League Table for Music and the Complete University Guide's 2023 Arts, Drama and Music league table. It is also ranked the sixth university in the world for performing arts in the 2022 QS World University Rankings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of North London</span> University in England

The University of North London (UNL) was a university in London, England, formed from the Polytechnic of North London (PNL) in 1992 when that institution was granted university status. PNL, in turn, had been formed by the amalgamation of the Northern Polytechnic and North-Western Polytechnic in 1971. In 1996, the university celebrated its centenary, dating from the year of the Northern Polytechnic's founding. UNL existed until 2002, when it merged with London Guildhall University to form London Metropolitan University. Its former premises now form the University's north campus, on Holloway Road and Highbury Grove, Islington.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lord Mayor's Show</span> Annual street parade in London, England

The Lord Mayor's Show is one of the best-known annual events in London as well as one of the longest-established, dating back to the 13th century. A new lord mayor is appointed every year, and the public parade that takes place as their inauguration ceremony reflects that this was once one of the most prominent offices in England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Guildhall, London</span> Municipal building in London, England

Guildhall is a municipal building in the Moorgate area of the City of London, England. It is off Gresham and Basinghall streets, in the wards of Bassishaw and Cheap. The building has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London and its Corporation. It should not be confused with London's City Hall, the administrative centre for Greater London. The term "Guildhall" refers both to the whole building and to its main room, which is a medieval great hall. The nearest London Underground stations are Bank, St Paul's and Moorgate. It is a Grade I-listed building.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Guildhall</span> Building used for meetings of guild members

A guildhall, also known as a "guild hall" or "guild house", is a historical building originally used for tax collecting by municipalities or merchants in Great Britain and the Low Countries. These buildings commonly become town halls and in some cases museums while retaining their original names.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">District of Delyn</span> Former district of Clwyd, Wales

Delyn was a local government district with borough status from 1974 to 1996, being one of six districts in the county of Clwyd, north-east Wales.

In media studies, mass communication, media psychology, communication theory, and sociology, media influence and themedia effect are topics relating to mass media and media culture's effects on individuals' or audiences' thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors. Through written, televised, or spoken channels, mass media reach large audiences. Mass media's role in shaping modern culture is a central issue for the study of culture.

<i>Kurogane Communication</i>

Kurogane Communication is a Japanese manga series written by Hideo Kato and illustrated by Tomomasa Takuma. The individual chapters were originally serialized in Dengeki Daioh in 1997 and published in two tankōbon volume by MediaWorks. Set in a post-apocalyptic world in which a lone human survivor, a girl named Haruka, lives with a family of five robots. The manga series is licensed for an English language release in North America by Go! Comi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Indian Science Congress Association</span>

Indian Science Congress Association(ISCA) is a premier scientific organisation of India with headquarters at Kolkata, West Bengal. The association started in the year 1914 in Kolkata and it meets annually in the first week of January. It has a membership of more than 30,000 scientists.

<i>Witness for the Prosecution</i> (play) 1953 play by Agatha Christie

Witness for the Prosecution is a play adapted by Agatha Christie from her 1925 short story "Traitor's Hands". The play opened in London on 28 October 1953 at the Winter Garden Theatre. It was produced by Sir Peter Saunders.

The City of London Festival was an annual arts festival that took place in the City of London, England, over two to three weeks in June and July. The Festival was strongly geared towards classical music, but also offered a programme that included jazz, world music, opera, film screenings, lectures and guided tours. Performances were usually held within local venues including some of London's ornate churches, St Paul's Cathedral and Livery Company Halls.

Janae Bakken is an American television producer and screenwriter best known for her work on the television series Scrubs.

SIGNIS (official name: World Catholic Association for Communication) is a Roman Catholic lay ecclesial movement for professionals in the communication media, including press, radio, television, cinema, video, media education, internet, and new technology. It is a non-profit organization with representation from over 100 countries. It was formed in November 2001 by the merger of International Catholic Organization for Cinema and Audiovisual (OCIC) and International Catholic Association for Radio and Television (Unda). At its World Congress in Quebec in 2017, SIGNIS welcomed also former member organisations of the International Catholic Union of the Press (UCIP).

National Science Day is celebrated in India on February 28 each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C. V. Raman on 28 February 1928.

David Arch, better known as Dave Arch, is a British pianist, conductor, arranger and composer with a career covering albums, films and commercials, television and live performances. He is Musical Director and arranger for BBC Television's Strictly Come Dancing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Southampton Guildhall</span>

Southampton Guildhall (branded the O2 Guildhall Southampton) is a multipurpose venue which forms the East Wing of the Civic Centre in Southampton, England. There are three venues in the Guildhall catering for various event formats: the Guildhall itself, the Solent Suite and a lecture theatre.

Kerala Science Congress is an annual gathering of Kerala-based scientists and scholars organised by Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) for revitalizing Research and Development activities in Kerala and to identify new talents in scientific research in Kerala. KSCSTE is an autonomous body constituted by the Government of Kerala. The gathering features talks by invited scientists, presentations of research papers and awards of various prizes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michaela Coel</span> British actress and screenwriter

Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson, known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a Ghanaian-British actress, filmmaker, singer, and composer. She is best known for creating and starring in the E4 sitcom Chewing Gum (2015–2017), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance; and the BBC One/HBO comedy-drama series I May Destroy You (2020) for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress in 2021. For her work on I May Destroy You, Coel was the first black woman to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards.

Walther Gruner was a baritone who taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

References

  1. Asa Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Vol. 5, p.457
  2. Charles Curran et al, Television Today and Tomorrow, p.5