LevelItem
Ref NoOBS/6/1/1/2/9/1/1
TitleSpeeches and addresses
Date1962-1998
Extent6 files
Creator NameThe Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
DescriptionContains notes/transcripts of the following speeches and addresses delivered by Donald Trelford, mainly dating from his time as editor of the Observer:

Fairbairn Memorial Lecture on Press Freedom at the 1992 Pringle Award for Press Freedom in Durban, South Africa, on 22nd May 1992;

'Coping with the new world disorder' at the English-speaking Union, Dartmouth House, London, on Wednesday, 28 September 1991;

Address to the Copinger Society at the Law Society, Chancery Lane, on Wednesday 21st June 1989;

'Publish and be jailed' - Address to the TUC Media conference on at Congress House, London, on 16 March 1989;

Address at the International Press Institute 37th General Assembly in Istanbul on Wednesday 11 May 1988;

Speech at the Television Journalism Awards Dinner at the Dorchester Hotel, London, on Wednesday 24 February 1988;

Speech at the Manchester Publicity Association Luncheon at the Hotel Picadilly, Manchester, on Wednesday, 18 November 1987;

Speech at the Star Centenary conference, Johannesburg,on 9 October 1987;

Speech to mark the tenth anniversary of the Graduate Centre for Journalism at City University, London, on 19 June 1987;

Address at the university church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, on 22 February 1987;

Address at the Autumn Conference of the Guild of British Newspaper Editors at Saunton Sands, devon, on Saturday, 11 October 1986;

Address at the Royal Institute of British Architects on June 11 1986 in a series called 'Corridors of Power: an environmental perspective';

Address to the Automobile Association Annual Press Luncheon at the Savoy on Thursday, 22 May 1986;

'Telling it like it is' - Lecture at the University of California, Riverside, on 18 March 1986;

Kenneth Allsop Memorial Lecture at Edinburgh University on Thursday, 14 November 1985;

Response to 'Pravda', a play about the press by Howard Brenton and David Hare, in May 1985;

Speech at the 34th general assembly of the International Press Institute in Cairo on [4 March] 1985;

Speech at the Ryerson School of Journalism, Toronto, [1985];

Address at St. James's Church, Picadilly on 14 November 1984;

Address to the Autumn Conference of the British Legal Association at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, on Sunday, 30 September 1984;

'Freedom and Licence' - Lecture at Uppingham School Quatercentenary on 15 May 1984;

Address to the Media Society at teh Press Club on 29 March 1983;

'Press proprietors and Parliament' - Address to the Bow Group in February 1983;

Address to the Law Society on 9 August 1982;

Address at the Manchester Luncheon Club on Wednesday, 19 May 1982;

Address at the Annual Assembly of the International Press Institute, Madrid, on 11 May 1982;

Speech to Prince Charles at the Observer on 28 January 1982;

Address at a symposium on 'Europe and the Media' at the House of Commons on Thursday 27 March 1980;
Address to the Head Masters' Conference in Edinburgh on 25th September 1980;

Address to an Institute of Public Relations Seminar 'The press in the eighties', at the Institute of Directors, Pall Mall, London, on Wednesday, 27 February 1980;

'Fleet Street's night and day' - Address to the Institute of Public Relations on Tuesday 20 March 1979;

Editor's notes to the board, Aspen, on 5 July 1978;

Address to advertisers at the Inter-Continental Hotel, London, on 10 April 1978;

Untitled speech about the Observer to advertisers, nd;

Address to Portuguese editors at the British Institute, Lisbon, on 20 February 1978;

Talk to MI5 at the Civil Service College, Fanhams Hall, Ware, on Friday 14 October 1977;

'Newspapers: art or craft?' - Lecture at the Richmond Institute of Adult Education on 4 March 1977;

Address to the monthly lunch meeting of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising at the Carlton Tower Hotel on Monday 13 December 1976;

Transcript of a talk on 'The Press and International Affairs' for an Open University Course recorded on 3 November 1975;

'The press and the community' - no date or location;

Address to the Association of Yorkshire Bookmen at Rotherham, 1962/63;

Also includes:
a file of untitled speeches
a file of selected quotes and paragraphs for speeches
a file of untitled drafts of speeches and handwritten notes for speeches
System Of ArrangementChronological
Access StatusOpen
FormatManuscript
Typescript
CopyrightGuardian News & Media

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