Memorial of the month
Learn about the lives and legacies of those remembered in the Abbey and discover how people from all walks of life have ended up in the nation's church.
Join a member of staff at 10:30am every Tuesday and Thursday during visitor opening hours for a 10-minute talk about one of the thousands of memorials or graves that can be found around the Abbey. Please be aware this offer can be subject to cancellation at short notice.
These talks are available to those with a ticket to visit Westminster Abbey.
William Wilberforce, a leading politician in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, is remembered as a great reformer at the centre of a much wider movement for the abolition of the slave trade. His memorial in the Abbey offers an opportunity for us to think about how national memory is shaped and ask who is remembered and whose voices are missing.
Join a member of the Abbey team for a short 10-minute talk exploring the legacy of Wilberforce and what it reveals about power, reform and remembrance at Westminster Abbey and beyond.
Talks will take place at 10:30am every Tuesday and Thursday during visitor opening hours, except for Thursday the 12th of February. We will meet in Poets’ Corner.
