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ALT A beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to today
ALT Alt text: This photograph shows one half of the last double-page spread from Audrey Amiss' last scrapbook. It shows a Cornetto wrapper and a cut-out from a box of Sainsbury's fruit pudding, stuck into the scrapbook with some annotations in Audrey's handwriting.
ALT A purple, green and white cardboard calendar being held up in between stacks. On the calendar are flags and a portrait of Christabel Pankhurst.
ALT Montage of five different newspaper front pages, with the newspapers in the top left hand and bottom right had corner being sepia toned, and the newspapers in the bottom left hand and top right hand corners being in black in white. From top left clockwise, the Prisoners of War News, the title showing a soldier behind barbed wires, prying at the 'P' of the title, from January 1941, the Gravesend Messenger from January 1999 with a banner for winning a day at Brands Hatch Racing School and the headline 'Postcard arrives 46 years later', the Regiment from July 1898, the masthead consisting of a banner with the title, surrounded on one side by a military trumpeter and on the other by a drummer, with an illustration of a woman crossing the road, a soldier telling her to stop, the Scarborough Evening News from January 1985 with the headlines 'New big-store plan for Plaxtons site' and 'Spa waters plan,' and the Kent Examiner and Ashford Chronicle from November 1888, with 7 columns of adverts.