Eye - 21 November 2014

From poppies to sleuthing

A path of poppies

Ceramic Poppies captured the public’s interest in the months leading up to Remembrance Day.

The evolving art installation at the Tower of London, ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ by Paul Cummins and set by Tom Piper, represented Britain’s military war dead with 888,246 ceramic poppies filling the Tower’s moat.

As part of the four-year project on the first world war centenary, Quakers at Friends House expanded on this idea and launched an unusual map.

The digital view of London, which can found at http://bit.ly/QuakerPoppyMap, aims to reflect how far poppies would reach if the number of people from every country who died as a direct result of world war one were to be included.