War Torn: Manchester, its Newspapers and the Luftwaffe's Christmas Blitz of 1940 - Couverture souple

Hodgson, Guy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908258160 ISBN 13 : 9781908258168

Editeur : University of Chester Press, 2015

Synopsis

The Manchester Blitz was relatively short, lasting two nights in December 1940, when around 1,000 people were killed and more than 3,000 injured in the city centre, Salford and the residential areas near Old Trafford. This book focuses on the reaction by the local and regional newspapers of Manchester, which was Britain's second press centre at the time, to this heavy bombing. The newspapers, The Manchester Guardian, Manchester Evening News and Evening Chronicle, were studied over an eight-week period before and after the Blitz and, according to these editions, their readers were unbowed by the death and destruction wrought by the Luftwaffe and had a steely determination to win the war. Contemporary writing, including individual diaries and reports from Mass Observation and Home Intelligence, tells a more complicated and nuanced story. This book explores the gap between reality and what appeared in print when Mancunians stopped being distant observers and became the story.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr Guy Hodgson has more than 30 years experience in journalism, 20 of which he was employed as a staff journalist for The Independent, the Independent on Sunday and the BBC. Before that he worked in regional and local newspapers. Guy has been a Senior Lecturer for 15 years, having worked for the Universities of Central Lancashire and Chester and now Liverpool John Moores. At Chester he was Head of Media for four years, a department that comprised around 400 students and 32 staff teaching 10 diverse programmes. War Torn is based on his PhD research in History on Manchester, its newspapers and the Luftwaffe's Christmas Blitz of 1940, a study that incorporated his broader research interests: newspaper history, propaganda, press censorship and manufactured consent.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chester Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908258160
• ISBN 13: 9781908258168
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 266
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