Podcasts entertainment Moncrieff Highlights Humpty Dumpty Origins: 'He was a canon used in the siege of Colchester'

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

Published: Jan. 20, 2023, 3:32 p.m.

b'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? \\n\\nAoife Bannon, features editor with The Irish Sun went digging into the origins of nursery rhymes, and what she found was quite surprising\\u2026'