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How do we know what we know about Titanic?
The Titanic Provenance Files is a Titanic history podcast that goes beyond retelling the familiar story to investigate the evidence behind RMS Titanic.
Through artifacts, documents, eyewitness testimony, photographs, books, films, and conversations with leading Titanic researchers, host Damon Henrichs traces how the history was discovered, disputed, reconstructed, and remembered.
Each Case File takes one object, source, or story and asks what it can really tell us about the ship, the people aboard her, and the night Titanic was lost.
The story of Titanic, told through the evidence she left behind.
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What was it like to step aboard James Cameron’s Titanic—and what can the actors’ diaries reveal about the making of the film? Actress and filmmaker Alexandra Boyd joins The Titanic Provenance Files to explore Titanic (1997) from the inside. Boyd, who appeared as a first-class passenger, shares the research behind her audition, the experience of working on the recreated ship, and how costumes, sets, and small performances helped bring Titanic’s world to life. We also discuss Ship of Dreams: Ti...
What happens when a historical investigation takes on a life of its own? In this special midseason edition of The Titanic Provenance Files, host Damon Henrichs reflects on the surprising directions Titanic research can take, and how questions raised in one episode can lead to unexpected discoveries in another. What began as an exploration of Titanic's Collapsible Lifeboat A with historian Mark Chirnside eventually led to a mystery involving an engagement ring. Just two episodes later, Swedish...
What can two small Titanic artifacts reveal about the people aboard the ship? In this episode of The Titanic Provenance Files, host Damon Henrichs speaks with Swedish Titanic historian, author, and ethnologist Claes-Göran Wetterholm about two remarkable objects featured in Musealia’s Titanic: The Human Story exhibition in Austin: Jacob Alfred Johansson’s diary and Gerda Lindell’s ring. Johansson’s diary gives us a rare glimpse of Titanic before the disaster, including life aboard the ship thr...
We have a name! In an earlier Case Note, The Titanic Provenance Files investigated the anonymous letter reproduced by Walter Lord in A Night to Remember, accusing an unnamed male Titanic survivor of cowardice and of escaping after disguising himself in women’s clothing. At the time, we could eliminate several possibilities, but we could not confidently identify either the sender or the recipient. That has changed. Thanks to Titanic researcher Günter Bäbler, we now have a 1991 letter from Walt...
Eight Chinese passengers boarded RMS Titanic. Six survived. So why did their story nearly disappear from Titanic history? In this episode of The Titanic Provenance Files, Damon Henrichs talks with Steven Schwankert, author of The Six: The Untold Story of Titanic’s Chinese Survivors and part of the team behind the documentary The Six. The investigation begins with an extraordinarily simple artifact: eight names on a passenger list. From there, Schwankert and his research team followed an evide...
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