HULL
WILLIAM Wilberforce is heading back to the city of his birth next year – in portrait form, at least.
With 2019 marking the 260th anniversary of his birth in Hull, the anti-slavery campaigner’s portrait will be on display in the city’s Ferens Art Gallery, as part of a new National Portrait Gallery initiative to send important works to places associated with their subjects.
Visitors can also follow the Wilberforce Way, a 60-mile walking route from Hull to York, which also passes through Beverley and the village of Pocklington where he went to school. www.visithull.org