Rag Rag : The Rag Rag Annual Magazine, 1927

University of Manchester Student Union

Rag Rag

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Volume 4 of the University of Manchester Rag Rag. Cover features a group of colourfully-dressed figures, fighting for this issue of the Rag held aloft by a red and blue snake with a stylised sunburst in the background. The minimum donation for this volume was sixpence. According to the editorial, the previous Rag week raised £11,000 for charitable causes in Manchester.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Features include ‘A Guide to Manchester’, in which a fictional visitor is introduced to sights of Manchester such as the Rylands Library, the Art Gallery and the Midland Hotel, and cartoon ‘How it’s done (?)’ showing the production of the Rag. There are references to ‘Industrial Peace’ after the First World War, movements in favour of birth control and changing female fashions.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>This volume’s comedic advertisements include Lloyd, Payne and Amiel jewellers, Lovell’s sweetshop, C. H. Deakin grocers, Ferranti Ltd, Archer gramophone lounges, John Noble hairdressers, Hetherington’s textile machinery, the Manchester Ship Canal, Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Irwell Springs Printing Co., Lawton’s tailors, the White Star Line, the Calico Printers’ Association, Yorkshire Relish, Small and Parkes Works and others.</p>