Richard Davenport-Hines

British historian, biographer and literary critic known for works on modern British history and cultural biography.

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  1. 1. Voyagers Of The Titanic

    Passengers, Scientists, State Officials and the Cultural Context

    A textured collective portrait of the people who sailed on the Titanic, tracing a cross-section of lives — from wealthy socialites to hopeful emigrants — to show why they were aboard, what they carried with them, and how the disaster revealed the class divisions, contradictions and human dramas of the Edwardian age; blending short biographies, social and cultural context, and elegiac storytelling, the book uses individual stories to illuminate the broader moral and historical meanings of the sinking.

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