Humpty Dumpty Origins: 'He was a canon used in the siege of Colchester'

Moncrieff · Jan 20, 2023 · 6m

It turns out Humpty Dumpty was not an egg. He was, in fact, a cannon. But how did a weapon of warfare become something so different? Aoife Bannon, features editor with The Irish Sun went digging into the origins of nursery rhymes, and what she found was quite surprising…