Golden City: Scottish Children's Street Games & Songs

James Ritchie was a young schoolteacher in Edinburgh before the Second World War when one day he found that a science lesson was going poorly. "What do you like doing?", he asked the class. They replied at once that they liked playing games. There and then he began to jot down descriptions of their favourite games and the rhymes that went with them. This became a lifetime's work, leading to the making of a radio programme and a film, as well as the publication of two widely acclaimed books, one of which is <i>The Golden City</i>.