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Promotional leaflet showing a mouse against some data for The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique

Advocates for animal welfare: The Three Rs

June 30, 2023

Debate has long raged about the use of animals by humans, both as food and for the advancement of science. The National Anti-Vivisection Society was founded back in 1875 and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection in 1898, by Frances Power Cobbe, campaigner for women’s suffrage and anti-vivisection activist.   The Cruelty to Animals …

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Promotional leaflet for ’The Principles’, 1959 showing a mouse in front of scientific data

Advocates for animal welfare

December 1, 2022

Work has just finished on an 18-month project to catalogue papers held by Manuscripts and Special Collections which chart the progress made in promoting the concept of the Three Rs, the guiding principles of Reduction, Replacement and Refinement, in regards to the use of animals in scientific research. The work was made possible by a …

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