What is less well known is that the man who is buried in Westminster Abbey came from Kingston upon Hull. Wilberforce became a reformer after evangelical enlightenment during a tour of Europe and ...

William Wilberforce was born in Kingston upon Hull in 1759. He was a small and sickly child and it was not until his time at St John's College, Cambridge, that he began to consider a political career.

Kingston upon Hull and Kingston upon Thames ... and anti-slavery campaigner and politician William Wilberforce. Children of Men author P.D James, rapper Stormzy, Trainspotting actor Jonny Lee ...

Through politicians like William Wilberforce, MP for Kingston upon Hull, there was pressure within parliament to abolish slavery. There were also campaigns, boycotts, and protests by abolitionist ...

More stories from East Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire Mr Annan is to give a speech at the Wilberforce Lecture, which celebrates the work of Hull-born abolitionist William Wilberforce ...

WHEN this island first became the home of man the site of the city of Kingston-upon-Hull bore an aspect very different from that which it assumes at present. The North Sea washed a long line of ...

Its official name is Kingston upon Hull and people from the city are ... to poets such as Philip Larkin and Andrew Marvell William Wilberforce who led the bill that freed slaves in British ...

British and Brooklyn accents mixed at Borough Hall this week as a delegation from Kingston-upon-Hull ... Public Library. Hull: Four museums, including the Ferens Art Gallery, Wilberforce House ...

The Queen has been touring Kingston upon Hull to mark the final few weeks ... Hull's premier gallery, Ferens Credit: GAVIN HAINES "Wilberforce House, meanwhile, brings slavery into focus.