The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers. In late 1914 ...

The red flower is closely tied to Remembrance ... The opening stanza reads: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks ...

Mourners have lined the streets in Cumbria for the funeral of Poppy Atkinson. An avid Manchester United supporter, mourners ...

Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature, reflects on the wild, red poppy and WW1 ... Commemorative poppies were a direct response to a poem - In Flanders Fields - published in the Christmas ...