Children's Games in Street and Playground

In the 1960s, Iona and Peter Opie observed that although many books had been written about how children should play, none had been written about how they actually played. To fill the gap they carried out an exhaustive survey, through the decade, of the games that children 'in fact play' when aged roughly between six and twelve years of age, and when outdoors — and usually when out of sight.

The result was their classic work Children's Games in Street and Playground. It records games played ...