Titanic: Countdown to Disaster (TRIH ep 429, part 3)
1912 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook survey the passengers aboard RMS Titanic, focusing on the social range from gilded millionaires to respectable second-class travellers. They profile prominent first-class figures — John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim, Isidor Straus, the Widener family, W.T.
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- 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)
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