Why name a ship after a defeated race?
Thomas Laqueur: New Lives of the ‘Titanic’, 24 January 2013
The Wreck of the ‘Titan’
by Morgan Robertson.
Hesperus, 85 pp., £8, March 2012,978 1 84391 359 7 Show More
by Morgan Robertson.
Hesperus, 85 pp., £8, March 2012,
Shadow of the ‘Titanic’
by Andrew Wilson.
Simon and Schuster, 392 pp., £8.99, March 2012,978 1 84739 882 6 Show More
by Andrew Wilson.
Simon and Schuster, 392 pp., £8.99, March 2012,
‘Titanic’ 100th Anniversary Edition: A Night Remembered
by Stephanie Barczewski.
Continuum, 350 pp., £15.99, December 2011,978 1 4411 6169 7 Show More
by Stephanie Barczewski.
Continuum, 350 pp., £15.99, December 2011,
The Story of the Unsinkable ‘Titanic’: Day by Day Facsimile Reports
by Michael Wilkinson and Robert Hamilton.
Transatlantic, 127 pp., £16.99, November 2011,978 1 907176 83 8 Show More
by Michael Wilkinson and Robert Hamilton.
Transatlantic, 127 pp., £16.99, November 2011,
‘Titanic’ Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew
by Richard Davenport-Hines.
Harper, 404 pp., £9.99, September 2012,978 0 00 732166 7 Show More
by Richard Davenport-Hines.
Harper, 404 pp., £9.99, September 2012,
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage
by Hugh Brewster.
Robson, 338 pp., £20, March 2012,978 1 84954 179 4 Show More
by Hugh Brewster.
Robson, 338 pp., £20, March 2012,
‘Titanic’ Calling
edited by Michael Hughes and Katherine Bosworth.
Bodleian, 163 pp., £14.99, April 2012,978 1 85124 377 8 Show More
edited by Michael Hughes and Katherine Bosworth.
Bodleian, 163 pp., £14.99, April 2012,
“... of the paddle steamer Princess Alice during a ‘moonlight trip’ down the Thames. Struck by a collier on 3 September 1878, she sank within minutes, taking 650 passengers down with her. Those who weren’t trapped inside did not so much drown as succumb to sewage, millions of gallons of which had just been released from newly completed outflows for ... ”