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How London’s 1838 ‘great stink’ created the modern vampire

By Rae Gillibrand, Lecturer, Premodern History, University of Leeds

Long before modern medicine could name the invisible terrors ravaging Victorian Britain, the public found a face for contagion: the vampire.

A new exhibition at the University of Leeds’s Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery, Quite Shameless: Cultural Reflections on the Vampire, explores how this supernatural predator became a stand-in for the period’s deepest anxieties about disease, contagion and contaminated air. The exhibition brings together…

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