The children discover a number of traditional English folk rhymes and rhythms, becoming aware how they link to dance and to the past. In this first session the rhymes of ‘Oats and beans and ...

The words – originally "hush-a-bye baby," not "rock-a-bye" – first appeared in writing in Mother Goose's Melody, a ...

This was precisely the reason that, in the 1940s, the British Society for Nursery Rhyme Reform set out to scrutinise hundreds of traditional rhymes for violence and other unsavoury elements that ...