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Families and Communities in England and Wales, c. 1600-1900
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs7136
Module code: HS7136 This module surveys a wide array of themes and approaches in the study of English and Welsh communities and families between c. 1600 and 1900.
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Families and Communities in England and Wales, c. 1600-1900
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs7136
Module code: HS7136 This module surveys a wide array of themes and approaches in the study of English and Welsh communities and families between c. 1600 and 1900.
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Global Cities
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs7212
Module code: HS7212 The role of a city is one that is ever changing. Historically, city-dwellers made up only a small percentage of the global population but, due to mass urbanisation over the past 200 years, this has grown to over half the world's inhabitants.
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Medieval and Early Modern Europe: People, Power, Faith, and Culture
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs1001
Module code: HS1001 What are the major themes and debates surrounding medieval and modern European history from 800-1700? How do popular stereotypes of this period differ from the historical evidence? This module picks apart how Europeans sought to construct and maintain...
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Transport
https://le.ac.uk/enterprise/expertise/medicine-science-technology/transport
The UK has a strong transport industry, especially in the aerospace, road, rail and marine sectors, as well as newer capabilities. But the way that we use transport today is unsustainable.
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Research Skills Training, Summer Term 2026
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2026/04/09/research-skills-training-summer-term-2026/
Research skills training program at the Univeristy of Leicester for the Summer Term 2026.
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Experts call for greater patient involvement in medical education
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/empathy-education
Empathy experts from the University of Leicester say that increased patient involvement is needed to help shape medical education for the benefit of patients and doctors
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Facilities and Services
https://le.ac.uk/lcrc/facilities-and-services
ECMC support service The Leicester Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC) is jointly funded by Cancer Research UK and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
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Unique exceptionally preserved fossil named in honour of Sir David Attenborough
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/unique-2018exceptionally-preserved2019-fossil-named-in-honour-of-sir-david-attenborough
An international team of scientists led by our University has discovered a new 430 million-year-old fossil and has named it in honour of Sir David Attenborough – who grew up on the University campus.
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The curse of zombie fossils
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/the-curse-of-zombie-fossils
New research has revealed how the history of life can be distorted by the ways animals decompose and lose body parts as they decay - and the ways in which decayed bodies ultimately become fossilised.