Rag Rag : The Rag Rag Annual Magazine, 1961

University of Manchester Student Union

Rag Rag

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Volume 35 of the University of Manchester Rag Rag. Cover illustrated in a mock-vintage style with fake advertisements and endorsements, including the strapline ‘the too-good-to-hurry Mag’. Proceeds from the magazine were donated to various medical charities in Manchester, detailed on page 17. The main beneficiaries this year were Booth Hall and Monsall Hospital (10 percent), the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (10 percent) and the Manchester University Settlement (Ancoats) (9 percent). The price was 2 shillings, and the total donation target was £20,000.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Features include ‘In Britain Today’, a spoof tourist’s guide, and ‘Totterton Arts Festival Underway’, a parody newspaper report. There are references to Oswald Mosley and Harold Macmillan. Cartoons show sexualised female imagery and demeaning racial stereotypes.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>This volume’s comedic advertisements include The Carborundum Company, District Bank, New Deansgate House, the National Coal Board, Burlington Warehouses, Crown wallpaper, British Road Services, Hatchett and Co, Granada TV, the Manchester Building Centre, St Christopher’s Trust, Senior Service tobacco and others.</p>