Titanic: The Tragedy Begins (TRIH ep 427, part 1)
1912 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History examines the origins and broader historical context of the RMS Titanic. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the story to three central men — John Pierpont Morgan, J. Bruce Ismay, and William Pirrie — and to two cities, New York and Belfast.
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Around 1912
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)