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Author Hodgson, Guy

Title War Torn : Manchester, its Newspapers and the Luftwaffe's Blitz of 1940
Published Chester : University of Chester, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages)
Contents Front cover; Title pages; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents pages; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I; Chapter One -- Historical Perspective; 1. 'A jumbled-up nondescript place'; 2. The Christmas Blitz; Chapter Two -- The Press and the Mythology of the Blitz; 1. 'Harlots of democracy'; 2. Creation of the Myth; Chapter Three 'Methodology'; 1. Approaching the Sources; 2. Newspaper Production; 3. Dissemination; 4. The Audience; 5. The Limits of the Research; Part II; Chapter Four -- The Newspapers; 1. Putting on the Battle Dress; 2. The Editors
3. Serious again in the morning'Chapter Five -- Censorship; 1. A Barrage of D-Notices; 2. 'Any use to us?'; 3. Guidance to Editors; 4. Fit to Print: Censorship and the Manchester Blitz; 5. Self-Censorship at the Manchester Guardian; Chapter Six -- Propaganda and the Management of Opinion; 1. The First World War Model; 2. Before the Manchester Blitz; 2.1 Manchester Guardian; 2.2 Manchester Evening News; 2.3 Evening Chronicle; 3. The Blitz editions; 3.1 Manchester Guardian; 3.2 Manchester Evening News; 3.3 Evening Chronicle; 4. The Post-Blitz Editions; 4.1 Manchester Guardian
4.2 Manchester Evening News4.3 Evening Chronicle; 5. 'No one dare report the tears'; Plates; Chapter Seven -- All in this Together?; 1. The Social Divide; 2. Crime and Newspaper Coverage of the Courts; 3. Letters to the Editor; 4. A Template of Cheerfulness; Chapter Eight -- The Aftermath of Christmas 1940; 1. Observing the Masses; 2. Report on Manchester and Liverpool; 3. Contemporary Reaction; 4. Looking Back on Manchester's Blitz; 5. Lingering Suspicion and Rumours; Chapter Nine -- Escape and the Moving News Agenda; 1. Satisfying the Audience?; 2. Entertaining the Masses
3. War and Non-War News4. Piccadilly, Manchester, or Piccadilly, London?; 5. The Times, the Daily Mirror and the Salford City Reporter; Chapter Ten -- 'Useless to Buy Newspapers'; 1. The Front Line; 2. Final Word; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Back cover
Summary This book explores the gap between reality and what appeared in print when Mancunians stopped being distant observers and became the story
Notes Print version record
Subject Bombing, Aerial -- England -- Manchester -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage -- England -- Manchester
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Bombing, Aerial
Press coverage
SUBJECT Manchester (England) -- History -- 20th century
Subject England -- Manchester
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781908258946
1908258942