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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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London Bridge is falling down
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Nursery rhyme relating not to any specific incident in the history of London but to the ancient and widespread game of a falling bridge – the upraised arms beneath which the children must pass, always with the fear that it is on them that the arms will descend.
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