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