Ellen Gibson, historian: born Eau Claire, Wisconsin 13 November 1919;
married 1964 Henry S. Wilson; died York 4 December 2008.   The
historian Ellen Wilson wrote a series of important books that laid the
foundations for much of the scholarly discussion that took place in
2007 on the bicentenary of the British abolition of the slave trade.
Based in York in later life, she had earlier worked as a journalist in
the American mid-west during the Second World War.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ellen-wilson-historian-and-author-of-groundbreaking-works-on-the-abolition-of-the-british-slave-trade-1513381.html

Of Cornish and Irish stock, she was born Ellen Gibson in Wisconsin in
1919, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1941 in
history andjournalism. Beginning on a small local newspaper, she moved
to the Milwaukee Journal's state desk in 1943(the first woman to do
so), and specialised in welfare reporting. In 1950 she was awarded a
Reid fellowship to enable her to study the new welfare state, and the
emerging new towns in Britain. This interest led to her appointment as
a public-relations officer for the new John Kennedy administration in
Washington in the early 1960s. It was there that she met Henry S.
Wilson, the English historian of Africa. Following their marriage, she
moved with him first to Aberystwyth and then to York.

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