Evening dress worn by England’s first Cotton Queen, Frances Lockett in 1930. Chosen from mill girls across the North West, Frances went from the loom to being chauffeured to events, promoting the cotton industry. #WeekQforQueens #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Marie Antoinette’s final note, written at dawn in her prayer book on the day of her 1793 execution: ‘My God, have pity on me! My eyes have no more tears to cry for you my poor children; adieu, adieu!' #WeekQforQueens #AlphabetChallenge 📷

This lovely film took me by surprise last year. The young director’s debut and with a cast of non-actors, it’s just beautiful and now on Film 4 www.channel4.com/programmes/h...

Knitted Anne Boleyn, mother of Elizabeth I, atop a Royal Mail postbox embossed with Elizabeth ll’s emblem. #WeekQforQueens #AlphabetChallenge 📷

"I would rather be a rebel than a slave." Suffragette leader and absolute queen, Emmeline Pankhurst 💜💚 #WeekQforQueens #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Queen Anne’s Summer Palace in the grounds of Prague Castle #WeekQforQueens #AlphabetChallenge 📷

One more from just now on my walk… bluebells are out and the colour is sublime. I think #WeekPforPurple has proved nature does it spectacularly. #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Wait for it… Digital art in Gothenburg #WeekPforPurple #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Expressionist purple Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Forest in Winter, 1925 #WeekPforPurple #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Tribute to a citizen killed in the Prague Uprising, fighting to liberate the city from Nazi rule in the last days of WWII. The wreath says ‘we remember’ #WeekPforPurple #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Taken walking down a Prague street so doing exactly what I love #WeekPforPurple #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Purple profusion #WeekPforPurple #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Violet silk-velvet train embroidered with silver lamé, worn for presentation at the German imperial court ca.1900 #WeekPforPurple #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Stepping into purple week #WeekPforPurple #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Classic eight-pointed stars and Islamic script tiles ca.1350 in Seville’s Alcázar, still a royal residence today #WeekOforOld #AlphabetChallenge 📷

The great hall at Burton Agnes with elaborate Tudor panels. Still lived in by the same family who built it in 1600. #WeekOforOld #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Isle of Bute graves dating back to the 1100s with views across the sea to Arran #WeekOforOld #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Durham cathedral built c.1100, the first to have this rib-vaulted style of ceiling #WeekOforOld #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Silver hairpins from China’s Tang Dynasty 618-907 Decorated with mandarin ducks, signifying fidelity as they mate for life 🦆🦆 #WeekOforOld #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Roman temple remains in Zadar 🇭🇷 1st century AD #WeekOforOld #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Very old piggies 🐷🐷 A list of 58 different terms for "pig" ca.3200 BC and a pig-shaped rattle, a mere 4500 years old #WeekOforOld #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Stone burial chamber in Menorca, built 3500 years ago. Contained 100+ skeletons on two levels inside 💀💀💀 #WeekOforOld #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Yes, I am this childish 🤭 (Apparently named after a beautiful French love story between Fanny and Marius but I won’t be letting that get in the way of a cheap laugh) #WeekNforNonsense #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Czech Pond by Kurt Gebauer, 1988 #WeekNforNonsense #AlphabetChallenge 📷

This cat lamp is delighted to meet you 👋 #WeekNforNonsense #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Google translates this as ‘passionate dumpling’ #WeekNforNonsense #AlphabetChallenge 📷

A tank top. With tanks. At the Tank Museum. #WeekNforNonsense #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Designer dogs #WeekNforNonsense #AlphabetChallenge 📷

This Picasso owl 🍥🍥 #WeekNforNonsense #AlphabetChallenge 📷

This daft little funicular in a Prague hotel made me laugh every time it trundled past. *Sorry it’s video but you need to hear its little toots and squeaks #WeekNforNonsense #AlphabetChallenge 📷

A Passage To India (via Lancashire) #WeekMforMovies #AlphabetChallenge 📷

The Lives Of Others Stasi Museum, Berlin #WeekMforMovies #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (surreptitious shot 🤭) #WeekMforMovies #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Asteroid City • Stockings • Cocktail • Coffee • Ammunition • Candy From the Wes Anderson Archives exhibition at London’s Design Museum. As ever, the joy is in the tiny details in his films 🍿 #WeekMforMovies #AlphabetChallenge 📷

The Thin Red Line #WeekMforMovies #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Before Sunrise Platform 7 is where Jesse and Céline disembark for their night in Vienna 💙 #WeekMforMovies #AlphabetChallenge 📷

The Eagle Has Landed #WeekMforMovies #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Wuthering Heights #WeekMforMovies #AlphabetChallenge 📷

The isolated and disused moorland Heights Chapel was a filming location in A Monster Calls #WeekMforMovies #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Drystone walls stretch for miles locally. Skilfully layered without mortar in Millstone Grit, they can endure for centuries. #WeekLforLayers #AlphabetChallenge 📷

1922 dress by Jeanne Lanvin showing how Marie Antoinette’s style has influenced designers to this day. Designed for Spanish ballerina Cátalina Bárcena who wore them on and off stage 💃 #WeekLforLayers #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Layers of corrugated iron under layers of paint #WeekLforLayers #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Art glass layers 11 Panes by Gerhard Richter Ludwig Museum, Cologne #WeekLforLayers #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Sarcophagus containing earth from locations where Czechoslovak citizens fought and died in WW2 🇨🇿 #WeekLforLayers #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Nautilus cup with its outer shell intricately carved to show the mother of pearl beneath. Netherlands ca. 1620, now in the V&A. #WeekLforLayers #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Layers of roof tiles under a layer of snow #WeekLforLayers #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Peeling paint layers #WeekLforLayers #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Drive up this track = wave goodbye to your exhaust 😬 #WeekKforKaput #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Closing time #WeekKforKaput #AlphabetChallenge 📷

Where office chairs go to die 😢 #WeekKforKaput #AlphabetChallenge 📷