Humpty Dumpty is a classic nursery rhymes that will hit Brits across the nation with a sweet sense of nostalgia, but it turns out the eponymous character isn't actually an anthropomorphic egg ...

100+ videos of traditional Nursery Rhymes with lyrics arranged alphabetically: The animal fair…to Humpty Dumpty…to Wind the bobbin up! All videos include the words on screen and a lyric sheet ...

In 1871, Humpty Dumpty was referred to in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 book, Through the Looking-Glass, which was a sequel to Alice in Wonderland. In that book, Humpty Dumpty was described as an egg.

I immediately sang to him: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again." ...

Humpty Dumpty often appears as an egg in illustrations of the popular nursery rhyme, but you may be shocked to learn the character is something else entirely - and he's not very friendly.