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The Lore of the Playground : The Children's World - Then and Now, Paperback / softback Book

The Lore of the Playground : The Children's World - Then and Now Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting 'one potato, two potato' and 'eeny, meeny, miny, mo', The Lore of the Playground looks at the games children have enjoyed, the rhymes they have chanted and the rituals and traditions they have observed over the past hundred years and more.

Each generation, it emerges, has had its own favourites - hoops and tops in the 1930s, clapping games more recently.

Some pastimes, such as skipping, have proved remarkably resilient, their complicated rules carefully handed down from one class to the next.

Many are now the stuff of distant memory. And some traditions have proved to be strongly regional, loved by children in one part of the country, unknown to those elsewhere.

All are brilliantly and meticulously recorded by Steve Roud, who has drawn on interviews with hundreds of people aged from 8 to 80 to create a fascinating picture of all our childhoods.

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