Opie Collection of Children's Games and Songs

The Opie Collection of Children's Games and Songs is a set of recordings made by Iona Opie between 1969 and 1983. Iona and her husband, Peter, dedicated their working lives to documenting children's play, folklore, language and literature and published several influential works, most notably The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959). Their audio archive consists of 85 open reel and cassette tapes recorded by Iona during research for The Singing Game (1985) and deposited with the British Library in 1998.

All the recordings are available to hear online on the British Library's website.