The descendants of William Wilberforce continue to live at Markington Hall, near Harrogate, but they have had to adapt and ...

The Magna Carta recently rediscovered at Harvard University in the US was once owned by Suffolk anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson.

The country house within Greater London has been the residence of a prime minister, and has hosted scientists and statesmen ...

Peter Waddell, founder of Big Motoring World, is selling Holwood House. The Greater London estate, once owned by a prime minister, is listed for 23.5 million pounds. Waddell bought the property in ...

British writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg delivered The Sydney Institute annual dinner lecture in March 2012 on “The Other Life of the ... parish churches”. William Wilberforce, of the ...

It's an interest that has remained with me throughout my life - and this is a country ... emphasis given to great social reformers like William Wilberforce and Ipswich's own Thomas Clarkson.

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No other couple in human history has shown such a spirit filled with revolutionary ambition for change. That too in a ...

The hero of this tale is William Wilberforce, and a new biography is overdue. Wilberforce’s struggle to ban slavery has been dramatised in the biopic Amazing Grace. Now, nicely timed for the ...

Many churches of all denominations celebrated the life and animal welfare work of William Wilberforce yesterday, Animal Welfare Sunday. Wilberforce was remembered earlier this year in the film ...