It all comes back to the Hapsburgs! Illustrator and graphic designer Leah Felicity Lucci tells Val about her fascination with the genetic story of the Hapsburg royal family, and how that lead to a research hole about eugenics, racism, and anti-Semitism and inspired her sketchbook project These are Not My Ancestors. SHOW NOTES: There is an article in The Atlantic about the layered “erased” writing of monks in the Middle Ages called The Age of Erasable Books. A palimpsest is a word for parchment on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. Type that word into google image search for lots of examples. To view some examples of Mannerist art, search for The Vision of St. John by El Greco or Madonna with the Long Neck by Parmigianino.The Do you know the Muffin Man? Pic can be found on Leah’s instagram at https://www.instagram.com/p/CNyAAZKnjk-/23&Me wrote a concise summary of the Habsburg inbreeding problem.White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg can be found wherever books are sold. Hitler or Lovecraft? quiz is at http://www.beesgo.biz/horp.htmlNot going to dignify David Eden Lane with a link but suffice it to say he was a piece of shit who died in prison after instigating and taking part in many crimes. Here’s the graphic Leah described of a Jewish family tree. It dates back to the 1700 and you can look at how it changes in 1940: https://upload.democraticunderground.com/12237693These Are Not My Ancestors sketchbook project by Leah Felicity Lucci: https://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/S258809 Remember Me: Displaced Children Archive via the Holocaust Museum: https://rememberme.ushmm.org/

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