1932-37 Carnival

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

A very scarce to see set of three issues of the University of Birmingham's rag, 'Carnival', for the years 1932, 1935, and 1937.

1935 is the second edition.

In their original bright decorative wraps.

Birmingham's rag was published from October 1926 until 1958. 

This rag, 'Carnival', was a cheap magazine sold by students to members of the public during Rag Week, which took place annually around Shrove Tuesday.

Birmingham's 'Carnival' rag raid is one of the largest and most successful in the country. 

'Carnival' contains a variety of anonymously-contributed contents, including adverts, stories, and cartoons. Often the contents were offensive or irreverent to authorities, with rags and rag weeks of various universities' becoming controversial in the first half of the twentieth century due to their perceived antisocial behaviour.