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The British Antislavery Movement, 1787-1833
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs3768
Module code: HS3768 By the 1780s, Britain had become the world’s largest slave-trading nation, shipping around 40,000 slaves per year to its colonies in the New World.
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Scientists suggest significant scale of human impact on planet has changed course of Earths history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/scientists-suggest-significant-scale-of-human-impact-on-planet-has-changed-course-of-earth2019s-history
The significant scale of human impact on our planet has changed the course of Earth history, an international team of scientists led by our School of Geography, Geology and the Environment has suggested.
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Thirteen things you may not know about black holes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/thirteen-things-you-may-not-know-about-black-holes
Today it has been announced that scientists who are part of the LIGO Collaboration have detected gravitational waves from black holes.
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Alumni Awards Dinner
https://le.ac.uk/alumni/join-us/events/award-winners-showcase
Biographies of past winners of University of Leicester Alumni Awards
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British national medical and dental students studying in Ukraine
https://le.ac.uk/about/conflict-support/ukraine-response/british-national-medical-dental-students-studying-ukraine
For British National Medical students studying in Ukraine the Government strongly advises British nationals to leave Ukraine immediately if you judge it is safe to do so.
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Air pollution
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/air-pollution
The work of Dr Julie Morrissey and colleagues at the University of Leicester, involves the elucidation of how bacteria adapt to air pollution and metal stress, and how this has impact on bacterial survival in a host and in the environment, and drives antibiotic resistance.
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Youth and Education Television
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2010/10/25/youth-and-education-television/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2010 The literature database of the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI) http://www.izi-datenbank.
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New wasp database explores genetic world of tiny parasitic stingers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/new-wasp-database-explores-genetic-world-of-tiny-parasitic-stingers
Parasitic wasps are able to survive by keenly predicting the changing of the seasons based on the length of days throughout the year - and a new online database, WaspAtlas, launched by researchers from the Department of Genetics led by Dr Eran Tauber explores...
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New Years Honours Professor Paul Boyle and Professor Melanie Davies awarded CBEs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/years-honours-professor-paul-boyle-and-professor-melanie-davies-awarded-cbes
Our President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Boyle, has been appointed a CBE in the New Year’s Honours.
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Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs2346
Module code:HS2346 This module explores US history from the final years of slavery through the Civil War and Reconstruction in the mid-19th century.