Titanic: A beginner's guide
Bits and pieces
Titanic
http://search.eb.com/titanic/
'A special exhibit from Encyclopaedia Britannica'. A short history,
then an 'exhibition' of captioned photographs showing the Titanic's
construction and the beginning of its first – and last – voyage.
George Behe's Titanic Tidbits
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/
Carpathia/
Little-known information about the Titanic disaster that has
been overlooked by historians. The material has been culled from a wide
variety of sources: period newspapers, diaries, letters, personal memoirs
and documents held in archives on both sides of the Atlantic. Articles
include 'How the Titanic became "unsinkable"', 'The music of the
Titanic's band', 'The man who dressed as a woman', 'Psychic forewarnings
of a tragedy?' and 'The two deaths of John Jacob Astor'.
The RMS Titanic and Its Times: When
accountants ruled the waves
www.cuug.ab.ca/~branderr/risk_essay/
Kline_lecture.html
A very personal,
illustrated lecture by Titanic enthusiast Roy
Brander on the ultimate cause of the sinking: money management vs. risk
management.
The Titanic in the Classroom
http://www2.nexus.edu.au/Teachstud/titanic2/
home/titic1.htm
The foundation of this website from the Department of Education, Training
and Employment of South Australia comprises databases both of passengers
and of crew. The site is designed so that users can glimpse behind the
words and images on the screen and come to grips with the human dimension
of the society of the day and this tragedy in particular. To do this,
they must see the database as a starting point and carry out research.
