More information

Details of previous lectures from 1997-2011 are available on the University's Reports and Publications web page.

There is also a detailed history of the A N Smith Lecture courtesy of Honest History.

The Centre for Advancing Journalism is currently working on locating and archiving every lecture delivered since 1936.

Joyce Belfrage, the first woman to deliver the AN Smith lecture on 26 November 1970, thirty years after the lecture was established.

Joyce Belfrage, the first woman to deliver the A N Smith lecture on 26 November 1970, thirty years after the lecture was established.