Vaccines (thread 4), Epsiode 10: Leicester's Rebellion: The Birth of the Anti-Vaccination League

Come walk the streets of 19th-century Leicester with me — banners, speeches, and a movement that turned imperfect medicine into a moral crusade against state power. These weren’t fringe eccentrics but organized parents and activists reframing vaccination as contamination and compulsory shots as tyranny.

It’s a messy, human story: real worries about safety and authority that hardened into absolute rejection. The League forced urgent questions about trust and freedom — and reminds us how asking the right questions doesn’t always lead to the right answers.