On Tuesday 7 November Roy Vickery will be giving a lecture Poppies – Beyond Flanders Fields, ‘an examination of the cultural significance of the common poppy’, at the South London Botanical Institute – http://www.slbi.org.uk  –  323 Norwood Road, London, SE24 9AQ, a short walk from Tulse Hill station, at 7.00 p.m.    All welcome, SLBI members free, nonmembers £3.

Image: Paddington station, London Borough of Westminster, 3 November 2017.