
Nursery rhymes
often tell of important events in History. Sometimes they remind us of disaster.
Ring- a - ring o' roses is one of these
these rhymes.
Hundreds of years ago children danced to this rhyme during times of plague - a deadly disease. The rhyme tells what happened if you caught the plague.
Some chroniclers, mainly monks, wrote about the plague that swept across England in 1348 - 49.