Titanic: Kings of the World (TRIH ep 428, part 2)
1912 · Resource
This episode (the second in the podcast’s Titanic series) examines the construction, design and early operational life of RMS Titanic. Holland and Sandbrook discuss the ship’s Belfast origins at Harland and Wolff, the role of designer Thomas Andrews and the White Star directors (including J. Bruce Ismay and Lord Pirrie), and the blend of extreme luxury and mass emigration that defined Titanic’s layout.
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- 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)