Rag Rag : The Rag Rag Annual Magazine, 1964

University of Manchester Student Union

Rag Rag

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Volume 38 of the University of Manchester Rag Rag. Cover features a minimalist cartoon of a stick figure hitting itself with a green hammer and a coiled snake, all set against a yellow background. Proceeds from the magazine were donated to various medical charities in Manchester, detailed on page 51. The main beneficiaries this year were the Ancoats University Settlement (11 percent), the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (11 percent) and the Booth Hall and Monsall Hospital Management Committee (10 percent). The price was at least 2 shillings.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Features include comedy letters to the Pensions Office, a double spread satire advertisement for a film version of the Bible and a map of the Rag week procession route. There are references to car developments and aliens. Cartoons show demeaning racial stereotypes.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>This volume’s comedic advertisements include Bradburn’s Eccles cakes, Mason’s honey malt cake, Excavation Haulage, Fielden electronics, Price Bros bakers, SL Robinson excavations, JT Richards turf accountants, the District Bank, Red Arrow Services, the NSPCC, British Road Services, Beck and Sons heavy haulage, Eldon Hill Quarries, Scotchguard, the Smithfield Market, Manchester Abattoirs, North Western Printers and others.</p>