The Edwardian Era Sank with the TitanicConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 907, Segment 1
Mar 10, 2021 • 35m
The stories of six first-class passengers on the Titanic represent the tensions of Edwardian society—an era that ultimately went down with the ship. While industrial progress continued, there was a new sense of pessimism and fear, and a loss of confidence in technology.
Guest: Gareth Russell, British historian and author of "The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era"