We are proud to present an important new series of bi-monthly journals created from The Bancroft Archive. Most of the information is drawn from official reports, military records, census returns, official civilian documentation and family descendants.Each concise and informative article contains much new and revised information and many exclusive illustrations. With a useful index, and a list of main research sources.

To have sailed on ‘The voyage of the century’ aboard RMS Titanic, the world’s largest and most luxurious vessel afloat at that time, was like being one of the first people to fly on Concorde. However, only four days into her maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, at about midnight on Sunday, 14 April 1912, she began to send out signals of distress stating: ‘We have struck an ice berg.’ She began to rapidly  take on water and sank less than three hours later. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew on board two out of every three perished. In this publication we have highlighted twenty people involved in the disaster, and the stories of their lives and experiences are some of the most fascinating and tragic of all those associated with the incident. We will publish similar tributes during the run-up to the centenary, and no Titanic library is complete without one.