Rag Rag : The Rag Rag Annual Magazine, 1942

University of Manchester Student Union

Rag Rag

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Volume 19 of the University of Manchester Rag Rag. Cover features a green snake coiled aggressively around caricatures of axis leaders Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito set against a yellow background with a grinning sun. Proceeds from the magazine were donated to various medical charities in Manchester.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>The magazine’s jokes and cartoons predominantly refer to the ongoing Second World War. Features include ‘Women Will Fight’, a spoof opinion column discussing the place of women in society, and ‘Wanted – An A.R.P. Poet’, lamenting the lack of wartime poetry in the Second World War. There are references to the alliance of Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt, women’s wartime work and blackouts. Cartoons show sexualised female imagery and demeaning racial stereotypes.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>This volume’s comedic advertisements include Redfern’s scrap, Saint Mary’s Hospitals, WH Smith electrical engineers, the Manchester and Salford Hospital Saturday and Convalescent Homes Fund, Manchester Haulage, Manchester Northern Hospital, the Moston Malleable Castings Co., Baxter, Woodhouse and Taylor electrothermal equipment, Valstar raincoats, the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, E Boydell and Co dumpers, William Partington machine tools and others.</p>