Playtimes - A Century of Children's Games and Rhymes

Author:

British Library

Subject:

Arts

Institution:

British Library

Collection:

British Library

Level:

Primary

Abstract:

From conkers to singing games, rude jokes to fantasy play, Playtimes brings together 100 years of children’s songs, rhymes and games. Documenting children’s culture from 1900 to the present day, the website includes footage of boys playing leapfrog (1900); girls dancing to celebrate the end of WWI (1919); children re-enacting battle scenes on bomb sites (1947), and numerous examples of children performing ‘traditional’ songs and games such as ‘in and out the dusty bluebells’, hopscotch, or ‘mummies and daddies’. Contemporary films from primary schools in London and Sheffield include children re-enacting scenes from TV game shows, computer console games and pop videos.

Language:

English

Material Type:

Activities and Labs, Games, Readings

Media Format:

Audio, Graphics/Photos, Interactive, Text/HTML, Video, Other

Conditions of Use:

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The content of this website can be accessed, printed and downloaded in an unaltered form (altered including being stretched, compressed, coloured or altered in any way so as to distort content from its original proportions or format) with copyright acknowledged, on a temporary basis for personal study that is not for a direct or indirect commercial use and any non-commercial use.

Copyright Holder:

The British Library Board