GETTY Jack and Jill went up the hill dates back at least to the 18th century

1. The term nursery rhyme derives from the 1806 book Rhymes For The Nursery by Jane and Ann Taylor. 2. The Taylor sisters wrote Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star under the title The Star.

3. Ding dong bell (pussy’s in the well) may be the oldest English nursery rhyme. References to it date back to at least 1580. 4. The first nursery rhyme collection was Tales Of My Mother Goose by Charles Perrault in 1695.

GETTY The term nursery rhyme derives from the 1806 book Rhymes For The Nursery by Jane and Ann Taylor

5. Hickory, dickory, dock came out top of a poll of the nation’s favourite nursery rhymes in 2009. 6. Mary, Mary quite contrary dates back to the 1740s and is thought to refer to the tyranny of Mary I (Bloody Mary). Silver bells and cockle shells were names for torture devices.

GETTY Three Blind Mice is thought to refer to Bishops Latimer, Cranmer and Radley, all burnt at the stake

7. Three Blind Mice is thought to refer to the same era. The “Blind Mice” were Bishops Latimer, Cranmer and Radley, all burnt at the stake. 8. “Baa, baa black sheep” is thought to refer to a tax on wool imposed by King Edward I in 1294.

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GETTY 'Mary had a little lamb' was written by Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830 and based on a true story