The Guardian view on radical protest: a lonely voice against slavery
Editorial: Benjamin Lay was a revolutionary who battled for an unpopular cause that is today regarded as unquestionably just
January 2023
Never forget that the British political and media elite endorsed slavery. It took radical campaigners to end it
Michael Taylor
The Anti-Slavery Society, founded 200 years ago this week, built a formidable political machine to end pro-slavery profiteering, says the author Michael Taylor
September 2021
Climate change deniers are as slippery as those who justified the slave trade
Nick Cohen
Global warming sceptics should be hiding in corners. But still some defend the indefensible
May 2019
Why are so many afraid to confront Britain’s historical links with the slave trade?
David Olusoga
Cambridge University is right to explore links with slave trade
July 2018
Fifty works at National Portrait Gallery are 'coming home'
London gallery sends artworks to towns and cities closely associated with their subjects
June 2018
Don’t knock Nelson for failing to fight slavery – he had a war to look after
Letters: The descendant of a 19th-century abolitionist points out that even Wilberforce had his flaws. Plus other reactions to Afua Hirsch’s piece on Britain’s view of its imperial history
February 2015
Reel history
Is Amazing Grace's take on the slave trade historically accurate?
The adverse effects of the slave trade on white people is the slightly off-kilter payoff of Michael Apted’s stodgy, old-fashioned drama
August 2014
In praise of ...
In praise of... Vienna’s peace windows
Editorial: The city’s Peace Museum is bursting out of its walls to curate the streets, inviting passersby to get to know 150 peace heroes
November 2013
Simon Hoggart's week
My week as a goldfish in a bowl of treacle – transfixed by daytime TV
Simon Hoggart
Simon Hoggart: Too ill even to read, I've been hypnotised by the scores of programmes featuring antiques and/or dough
November 2012
The Northerner
Small people, not big processes
Thursday's Rotherham byelection has attracted plenty of sound and fury. Here, Independent candidate Simon Copley offers a different, calmer approach: drawing on community muscle to solve local problems effectively
August 2010
William Wilberforce and the apprenticeship system
Letters: This history is not just about William Wilberforce, which is where it starts to be complicated – and interesting
Cif belief
William Wilberforce was complicit in slavery
Stephen Tomkins
Stephen Tomkins: Wilberforce and his supporters permitted slave labour in Sierra Leone. But is it a fatal blow to his reputation?
William Wilberforce 'condoned slavery', Colonial Office papers reveal
Papers reveal that slavery in Sierra Leone – the colony established by Wilberforce – continued long after 1807, with the social reformer's full knowledge
August 2008
Slavery history lessons to be compulsory
Britain's involvement in the slave trade will be studied by all secondary pupils in England from September
March 2007
Abolition's forgotten heroes
Moira Stuart wept when she encountered at first hand the realities of the slave trade for a BBC2 documentary on William Wilberforce. By David Smith.
February 2007
Wilberforce's pivotal role in the abolition of slavery
Letters: Nigel Willmott wrongly implies that on In Our Time on Radio 4, sufficient reference was not made to people other than William Wilberforce in the process leading to the abolition of slavery.
July 2006
Slave trade research unit in Wilberforce birthplace
Britain's first research unit into slavery was opened yesterday in Hull, the home of William Wilberforce, who led the campaign to abolish the trade.
October 2005
In praise of... William Wilberforce
Leader: No wonder William Wilberforce appeals to lesser politicians or that 200 years after MPs first voted to restrict slavery he has returned to the political frontline in a strange little tit-for-tat between the parties over who can lay claim to his legacy.
October 2002
Face to faith
Wilberforce be with you
Bob Holman
Bob Holman: William Wilberforce was more than just a politician, and with the Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith due to give the fifth Wilberforce Lecture today to the Conservative Christian Fellowship, it is timely to reconsider his life.
