Rag Rag : The Rag Rag Annual Magazine, 1934

University of Manchester Student Union

Rag Rag

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Volume 11 of the University of Manchester Rag Rag. Cover features a two stylised figures resembling Adam and Eve under a fruit tree with a smiling sun peeking over the horizon in the background. The Eve figure is reading the 1934 Rag with a white snake, and the Adam figure is weeping. Proceeds from the magazine were donated to the Manchester Royal Infirmary. The suggested donation was sixpence.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Features include ‘Cotton! Solution of Lancashire’s Problem!’, containing joke proposals to remedy the cotton industry, and an Edgar Allen Poe parody titled ‘Nothing More!’. There are references to Hitler’s Nazi Party, depression in the North West cotton industry and British ‘blackshirt’ fascists. Some cartoons show demeaning racial stereotypes.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>This volume’s comedic advertisements include firms of the Brookhead Estate, Anderson’s garage, Lord’s Estates homes, The Grand Brooklands Hotel, Salford Royal Hospital, Springfield Laundry, Cheshire Sterilized Milk, Swinton Laundry, J. Gerrard and Sons builders, Birkett and Bostock’s, Lewis Bros, Sparke and Stephens homes, Blakes motors, Walter Doyle accountants and others.</p>