How silk bulletproof vests and Bibles could have rewritten human history

The silk vest that might have saved Austria's Archduke Ferdinand is one of many objects from Holbein miniatures to the Kennedy limousine that have played key historical roles

Tests prove that a bulletproof silk vest could have stopped the first world war

It is a tiny bright circle of colour imprisoned under glass. Hans Holbein's miniature of Anne of Cleves is a miraculous little portrait that, supposedly, changed the course of history.

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