http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/670/3/Blitz book.pdf Manchester’s newspapers before and after the city’s Christmas Blitz of 1940. This is predominantly a qualitative study, which has taken an interpretative and contextual approach to the newspaper headlines and copy, involving analysis of all sections, including news and non-news pages, editorials and readers’ letters. Quantitative methods have not been entirely neglected, however, and they are used to measure the proportion of war against non-war reports, the amount of coverage given to lighter items such as entertainment and sport, and to monitor news agendas.