Rag Rag : The Rag Rag Annual Magazine, 1966

University of Manchester Student Union

Rag Rag

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Volume 40 of the University of Manchester Rag Rag. Cover features a photographic close-up profile of a woman with blonde hair looking at a small cartoonish black stick-figure on her shoulder which is popping bubbles with a pin. The magazine was produced by students to raise money for charitable causes across Manchester. It cost two shillings and sixpence, and the editorial set a target of £25,000 for this year’s Rag donations.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Features include a letter from the Lord Mayor of Manchester expressing thanks for the money raised for the city’s charities and a reproduction of Spike Milligan’s column in The Observer. There are also jokes referencing promiscuity, infidelity and socialism. A map of the Rag Day procession route is included, with the theme ‘Crime through the Ages’, and details of the ‘Annual Bogle and Tortoise Stroll’ long-distance fundraising walk. Some cartoons show sexualised female imagery, including nudity, and racial stereotypes.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>There are advertisements for S. L Robinson excavators, Knott Mill carpets, Gerrards builders, Robinson’s bakers, Shell chemicals, Granville Industrial Services, Royton Chain Co., Esso petrol, Better & Brighter Bingo, Burlington warehouses, Booth Hall Children’s Hospital, Gus Demmy bookmakers and others. There is also a job advertisement for James North & Sons. </p>