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

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, were sponsored and broadcast by

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. The first set of three lectures were held in 1959, and they continued until at least 1984. Broadly on the theme of "Communication in the Modern World", they concerned the arts,

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

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and

mass media Mass media refers to a diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets. Broadcast media transmit information ...

.Charles Curran et al, ''Television Today and Tomorrow'', p.5

List of lectures

References

{{reflist British lecture series Recurring events established in 1959 Science education in the United Kingdom Science lecture series Technology history of the United Kingdom Television shows produced by Granada Television 1959 establishments in the United Kingdom