Val McDermid delivered a memorable tribute to Harriet Martineau to a sold out audience. The annual Harriet Martineau Lecture, sponsored by the Martineau Society, was a big success. It took place on May 24th 2025 in St Peter Mancroft Church as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. The National Centre for Writing have issued a document with the text of the lecture. This also includes a brief history of the ten years of the Harriet Martineau Lecture written by Stuart Hobday.
For her lecture, bestselling crime writer Val McDermid explored how Harriet Martineau’s daring writing indirectly inspired her own.
Here you can read the Harriet-Martineau-Lecture-2025
including the brief history of ten years of the Harriet Martineau Lecture.
