The Titanic doesn't get a mention in two other books, Bob, which I feel also offer a window on a sizeable slice of the Edwardian world. The Classic Slum and A Ragged Schooling by Robert Roberts looks at the lives, attitudes, expectations and social mores of the working class residents in Salford, Lancashire in the 'golden years' before the outbreak of the Great War. Poverty of material wealth, poverty of ambition and the hope of better things to come stalk the pages. In the States, the Edwardian Age is known and the Gilded Age and I wonder if similar social histories have been published there.
KEEP ON COURSE, QM!
....er, sorry, Mr Lightoller, just painting a background picture of the world from which many of those who sailed on the Titanic came from. Might be tempted to flag this up on the Gilded Age section.