Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

Culture

From Flanders fields to lapels: how the red poppy became a remembrance symbol

The red poppy remembrance symbol traces back to Flanders battlefields, a Canadian doctor's poem and two campaigners, and these 10 slides explain how it spread

From Flanders fields to lapels: how the red poppy became a remembrance symbol

We haven't written up this one. Quartz has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at qz.com →

More in Culture

More from Thursday 5 November →