Rag Rag : The Rag Rag Annual Magazine, 1952

University of Manchester Student Union

Rag Rag

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Volume 26 of the University of Manchester Rag Rag. Cover features a student and a snake reading the Rag Rag; the student riding a zebra on a zebra crossing and the snake coiled around a post inscribed with the year of issue. Proceeds from the magazine were donated to medical charities in Manchester, detailed on page 30. The main beneficiaries this year were the University Settlement (10 percent) and St Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children (10 percent).</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Features include ‘Mrs. Manchester’s Diary’, a comedic tour of Manchester, and ‘TV or not TV’, cartoon jokes about television. There are references to injured war veterans, imperial expeditions and the popularity of television. Cartoons show sexualised female imagery and demeaning racial stereotypes.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>This volume’s comedic advertisements include Kendals, Hollingdrake cars, Joseph Cookson textiles and rope, Marfake lubricant, the Salford Catholic Protection and Rescue Society, Boddingtons and Holt’s breweries, Valstar coats, Montrose caravans, Pickering’s pies and others.</p>