The English writer and scholar Joseph Jacobs travelled the land collecting and recording every traditional English story he could find. Many of these stories are similar to well-known European stories but the English tales have a distinctive wit and humour of their very own.

• Three Heads in the Well
• Dick Whittington
• Earl Mar's Daughter
• Cap O’ Rushes
• Tom Tit Tot
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• The Three Gifts