Rag Rag : The Rag Rag Annual Magazine, 1960

University of Manchester Student Union

Rag Rag

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Volume 34 of the University of Manchester Rag Rag. Cover features a cartoon of two men entangled with a yellow snake amid a fantasy oceanic scene, set against a blue background with a red sun. Proceeds from the magazine were donated to various medical charities in Manchester, detailed on page 46. The main beneficiaries this year were the Manchester University Settlement (8 percent) and the Royal Children’s Hospital (Pendlebury) (8 percent). This was the first issue to display a recommended price, which was 2 shillings per copy.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Features include a joke lecture on ‘The New Elizabethan Age’ and spoof book reviews. There are references to changing female fashions and nuclear physics. Cartoons show sexualised female imagery.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>This volume’s comedic advertisements include Senior Service tobacco, District Bank, Broadhurst Biscuits, Mecca Motors, Switchgear and Cowans, Cyclone Works, Lancashire Refrigeration Co, Speedway Garage, British Driver Harris, Crown Wallpapers, British Road Services, the NSPCC, Hatchett and Co, Granada TV, Clayton Aniline Co, the Lancashire Steel Manufacturing Co, Peter England clothing, Marks and Spencer, Vitafoam, Topz Flour, the Home Heating Centre and others.</p>