A century after her sinking, social historian John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories of twelve of the passegers aboard the doomed liner, including a minute-by-minute account of the ship's last tragic hours.
John Welshman is the author or editor of six books on twentieth-century British social history and has held posts at the Universities of Leicester, Oxford, and York. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Lancaster University. His latest book, Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain (2010), is also published by Oxford University Press.
