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

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par 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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