Rag Rag : The Rag Rag Annual Magazine, 1926

University of Manchester Student Union

Rag Rag

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Volume 3 of the University of Manchester Rag Rag. Cover features a stylised design of a black monkey with red glasses and feet holding a copy of the Rag Rag, standing with a blue snake, both in front of a sun. The minimum donation for this volume was sixpence, the proceeds of which were donated to Manchester hospitals. The 1926 Rag claims that 52,000 copies were sold the previous year, resulting in £1,250 profit for hospitals. This edition contains a small three-page ‘supplement’ sponsored by Lewis’s and Boots.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Features include ‘The Coming Tests’, a long spoof article on upcoming cricket matches and ‘Things we should like to see’, a cartoon drawing of the chief constable in burlesque ‘Shrove Costume’. There are references to the ‘Wembley Exhibition’ (Empire Exhibition of 1924), the Wythenshawe garden city land purchase and Mussolini’s blackshirts. Please note that this edition contains racist language or imagery, including use of a strong racial slur.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>This volume’s comedic advertisements include The Manchester Limited restaurant and café, Goulburn’s butchers, Allendales grocers, Chapman’s cameras, The Sugar Bowl chocolates, Thomas Hudson home furnishings, the Manchester Ship Canal, Lewis’s Market Street department store, The Queen’s Brewery, Lookers Ltd cars, James Brown livestock, Gaiety Picture House, Beverlys wine and spirit merchants, C. Nicholls and Company printers, Dingleys stores, Aladdin Industries and others.</p>