Once barely noticed, the history of the anti-slavery campaign has gathered such momentum that it has now become the central narrative of Our Island Story. 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 bicentenary year, William Hague has written his life.

Literary Review

Jun 2007

Categories

Jane Ridley

Prime Minister’s Pet

Full of Heirs and Graces

Going Jungly

Wanderlust

Rex Whistler Painted Her Hall

Hythe Society

Grand Dame of Downing Street

Treachery at the Palace

From the Sewers

Knole Me Tangere

Passage from India

Building Jerusalem in the Home Countries

Where’s Wallis?

Welfare & Warfare

Woman in Black

Winds of Change

Unhappy Valley

Eminence Rose

Alpha Female

Day of the Spinster

Our Woman in Number 10

Chilblains and Petticoats

The Goat and the Pussycat

Dancing on a Volcano