Titanic The Last Night of a Small Town

by Welshman, John

• ISBN13: 9780199595570
• ISBN10: 0199595577
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In his famous bookA Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hundred years after her sinking, John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories of twelve of the inhabitants of this tragically short-lived floating town. They include members of the crew; passengers in First, Second, and Third Class; women and men; adults and children; rich and poor. Among them are a ship's Captain, a Second Officer, an Assistant Wireless Operator; a Stewardess, an amateur military historian, a governess, a teacher, a domestic servant, a mother, and three children. What were their earlier histories? Who survived, and why, and who perished? And what happened to these people in the years after 1912? Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Townanswers all these questions and more, while offering a minute-by-minute depiction of events aboard the doomed liner through the eyes of a broad and representative cross-section of those who sailed in her - both those who survived and those who didn't.

Author Biography

John Welshman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Lancaster University. He is the author or editor of six books on twentieth-century British social history, including Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	p. xi
Glossary	p. xiii
Cast List	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
'The Biggest Anchor in the World'	p. 8
'Like a Big Expectant Family'	p. 31
'A Wonderful Passage Up To Now'	p. 58
'Ice, Flat Like a Pocket Watch'	p. 92
'We Have Collision with Iceberg'	p. 127
'Latitude 41° 46' N, Longitude 50° 14' W	p. 157
'She's Gone, Lads; Row Like Hell'	p. 177
'A Dark Speck on the Horizon'	p. 200
'Arranged for Your Exclusive Story'	p. 231
'Mr Beesley's Simple Narrative'	p. 254
Conclusion	p. 281
Note on Sources Notes	p. 299
Further Reading	p. 309
Index	p. 311
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