Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This week's guest on the High Caliber History podcast is Lisa Traynor, the Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. We talk about historic types of bulletproof vests, their durability, testing them, and seeing if they could have prevented WWI. For more information on Lisa and the Royal Armouries, visit http://www.royalarmouries.org.

To purchase her book, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Era of Assassination, visit shop.royalarmouries.org/search?q=lisa%20traynor*&type=product

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