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Distant supermassive black hole shows high velocity sign of over-eating
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/distant-supermassive-black-hole-high-velocity-over-eating-770
University of Leicester scientists describe how the capture of new matter - lasting a few days and corresponding to several Earth masses - formed a ring around the hole, before being partly swallowed by the hole, with excess matter ejected as a high velocity wind.
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Home to Joe Orton and Sue Townsend collections receives national accreditation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/archive
An archive service which holds the collections of Leicester literary greats, Joe Orton and Sue Townsend, has received approval from The National Archives.
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University of Leicester celebrates a century of science with chemistry and physics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/celebrate-century-science-chemistry-physics
School of Physics and Astronomy and School of Chemistry mark 100-year anniversary in 2025, with Centenary celebrations on 17 May seeing alumni return to campus and share memories
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Press
https://le.ac.uk/evelyn-waugh/press
Explore the press releases and media coverage on the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project with the University of Leicester.
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Links between historic places, colonialism and slavery revealed
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/links-between-historic-places-colonialism-and-slavery-revealed
Connections between 93 historic places and colonialism and historic slavery have been revealed by the National Trust today, for the first time.
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Tuberculosis
https://le.ac.uk/lung-health/research/tuberculosis
Specialists Barer Carr Garton Haldar Mukamolova O’Hare Woltmann Leicester has a large number of tuberculosis patients and so both the diagnosis, management and pathogenesis of TB are important priorities for the theme.
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Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s - 1948
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/jewish-dress-migration-and-belonging-1880s-1948
History of Jewish Dress and migration from Central and Eastern Europe to Palestine/Israel
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https://le.ac.uk/library/search-collections/databases-az/a
Acta Sanctorum All 68 volumes of the Acta Sanctorum as published by the Société des Bollandistes. The encyclopaedia documents the lives of Saints from 1643 to 1940, organised by each saint's feast day.
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Regional and local history
https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/english-local-history
Since local boot and shoe manufacturer Thomas Hatton donated his collection of books on antiquarianism at our foundation, the University of Leicester Library has been collecting material on regional and local history.
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Creative Dissertation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en7034
Module code: EN7034 Please note that places on this module are limited and will be allocated on the basis of performance and potential as demonstrated in previous modules.