Iona Margaret Balfour Opie, CBE, FBA (13 October 1923 – 23 October 2017) and Peter Mason Opie (25 November 1918 – 5 February 1982) were an English married...

enters intermediate school, which coincides with puberty and adolescence. Iona and Peter Opie demonstrated that the culture of children is quite distinctive...

The scholars Iona and Peter Opie noted that many variants have been recorded, some with additional words, such as "O. U. T. spells out, And out goes she...

Buontalenti." In their 1951 The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, Iona and Peter Opie write that the rhyme has been tied to a variety of historical events...

several scholars and collectors helped document and preserve these oral traditions as well as their histories. These include Iona and Peter Opie, Joseph Ritson...

the muffin man, Who lives on Drury Lane. It then repeats on and on. Iona and Peter Opie observed that, although the rhyme had remained fairly consistent...

or two a penny hot cross buns. A variant on this was collected by Iona and Peter Opie in their compilation of 19th century children’s booklets: 'Tis Good...

children's literature and the customs of schoolchildren; the husband of Iona Opie Redvers Opie (1900–1984), British economist Robert Opie (born 1947), British...

suggesting that the lyrics were circulating independently in the 1840s (Iona and Peter Opie Oxford, p.512-513). Original text of 1841 in Scots, alongside a paraphrased...

Clubs", and "The Diamond King", in the British publication The European Magazine, vol. 1, no. 4, in April 1782. However, Iona and Peter Opie have argued...