<p style='text-align: justify;'>Volume 6 of the University of Manchester Rag Rag. Cover features a stylised knight and medieval lady on a black horse, a snake coiled on the knight’s lance, set against a background of a sun smiling from behind red hills. The magazine was produced by students to raise money for medical charities in Manchester.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Features include ‘Bowtie’ and ‘The Adventures of John Crusoe’, parodies of globe-trotting adventure stories. A ‘society notes’ page parodies high society gossip. There are also jokes referencing women’s suffrage (granted in 1928), political turmoil in Afghanistan and new one-way traffic systems. Cartoons show landmarks along the Manchester Ship Canal, a frequent topic of mockery in the Rag Rag, and other comedy sketches.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>There are comedic advertisements for Exide batteries, McVitie & Price digestive biscuits, the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Ferranti, Manchester Corporation Tramways, King Lud tobacco, Kilverts’ lard, Saxon Jefferis cars, Small & Parkes mechanics, Ven Heusen collars, Bermaline bread, Atora suet, Precision Grinding Co., the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Ewbank mangles, the Manchester Ship Canal, Redpath, Brown & Co. steel, W. T. Glover & Co. cables, Tenasitine glue, Lookers Ltd., John Heywood books, Kolynos dental cream, Oldham & Son batteries, Parkinsons’ chemists, Amazon Overalls, C. Nicholls & Co printing and Pratt’s petrol. </p>
