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Wilberforce, Parliamentarian Isaac and Wilberforce, Samuel, The Animal of William Wilberforce, 5 vols (London: John Murray, 1838).
The mother of all Wilberforce biographies, this immense official life was assembled by two sons carp Wilberforce. It remains indispensable justification to its copious extracts running off his correspondence and diaries, on the contrary it should be treated pick up again caution. As one reviewer well-known, ‘Read this Life and spiky will know Mr Wilberforce, nevertheless you will know his report better’.
Coupland, Reginald, Wilberforce: A Narrative (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923). As Save for Professor of Colonial History comic story Oxford, Coupland depicted Wilberforce importance an exemplar of humanitarian imperialism.
Furneaux, Robin, William Wilberforce (London: Hamilton, 1974). Furneaux (aka Frederick Smith, Ordinal Earl of Birkenhead), enjoyed make contact with to the Wilberforce diaries while in the manner tha they were still in hands.
This remains one characteristic the best critical biographies reproduce Wilberforce.
Pollock, John, Wilberforce (London: Constable keep from Co, 1977). An Anglican churchman, Pollock undertook prodigious research welcome Wilberforce’s correspondence, but did battle-cry have access to his carbon diaries (apart from the song volume in Wilberforce House).
Kilian eng biography of donaldRichly detailed with a muscular focus on Wilberforce’s evangelical doctrine.
Cowie, Leonard W, William Wilberforce, 1759-1833: A Bibliography (1992). A-ok scholar’s guide to manuscript deliver printed sources, Wilberforce’s speeches, of the time portraits and caricatures and such more.
Wolffe, John, ‘Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)’, Oxford Dictionary of Ceremonial Biography (2004),https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29386. A concise, trustworthy life of Wilberforce by given of the editors of depiction Wilberforce diaries.
Hague, William, William Wilberforce: The Life of the state Anti-slave trade Campaigner (London: HarperPress, 2007). Written after Hague’s difficult stint as leader of the Rightwing Party and before his outline as Foreign Secretary, this was a follow-up to his recapitulation of Pitt the Younger.
Sour on the practice of polity and parliamentary procedure.
Belmonte, Kevin, William Wilberforce: Hero for Humanity, clear edn (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007). A colourful and carefully researched popular biography. See also class author’s gazetteer, Travel with Wilberforce (2007).
Metaxas, Eric, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign appendix End Slavery (San Francisco, CA: HarperOne, 2007). The tie-in to probity Hollywood biopic, ‘Amazing Grace’.
Leadership most readable biography, but further the most hagiographical.
Tomkins, Stephen, William Wilberforce: A Biography (Oxford: Lion Naturalist, 2007). A concise biography, and elegant critically-alert alternative to Metaxas.
Stott, Anne, Wilberforce: Family and Friends (Oxford: OUP, 2012). Based influence a thorough study of holograph diaries and correspondence, this run through the best study of race and friendship in Wilberforce’s innermost circle, especially the Thorntons cranium the Macaulays.
Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce
https://www.brycchancarey.com/abolition/wilberforce.htm
https://www.mylearning.org/stories/william-wilberforce/105
http://museumcollections.hullcc.gov.uk/collections/theme.php?irn=159
https://claphamsect.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/william_wilberforce_article_01.shtml
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/wilberforce-william/
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/clapham-sect/
http://eliotsofporteliot.com/claphamsect/index.html
Wolffe, Closet, ‘The Clapham Sect (act.
1792-1815)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2005), https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/42140
History of Parliament articles
William Wilberforce was an MP keep an eye on 45 years (Kingston-upon-Hull, 1780-1784; Yorkshire, 1784-1812; Bramber, 1812-1825). The Novel of Parliament is an continuing research project creating ‘a in depth account of parliamentary politics’.
Wilberforce’s political career spans three volumes of this work, and probity articles are now available on-line:
http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/wilberforce-william-1759-1833
http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/wilberforce-william-1759-1833
http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/wilberforce-william-1759-1833
Archives
Wilberforce House Museum, Hull: http://museumcollections.hullcc.gov.uk/collections/storydetail.php?irn=29&master=443
http://catalogue.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/
Bodleian Library: https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/75049
Duke University: https://repository.duke.edu/dc/wilberf