Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down!” It’s a classic nursery rhyme that children often sing on the playground while spinning around. “Ring Around the Rosie,” or “Ring a Ring o’ Roses,” as ...

Throughout the course of history, human beings have penned any number of popular nursery rhymes, from “Jack and Jill” to “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” “Pop! Goes the Weasel” is a ...

The nursery rhyme “Frère Jacques,” also known as ... instead concluding that the rhyme was more likely to refer to a number of monks who were prone to oversleeping. Whatever the truth ...

Historian Robert Lacey’s new book Nursery Rhymes with Pictures—in which he showcases 82 nursery rhymes originally illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser in the early 20th century—is a significant ...

Some of the possible interpretations for these tales go back to real-life historical figures—and others are a little dark. You’ve probably grown up your entire life without putting much ...