English folk music (1900–1949)

Births and deaths

Births

• Phil Tanner (1862–1950)
• Stan Hugill (1906–1992)
• A.L. Lloyd (1908–1982)
• Copper Family (c. 1912 – 1915)
• Phoebe Smith (1913)
• Walter Pardon (1914–1996)
• Ewan MacColl (1915–1989)
• Fred Jordan (1922–2002)
• Shirley Collins (1935)
• Martin Carthy (1941)
• Dave Swarbrick (1941)
• Bert Jansch (1943)
• Peter Bellamy (1944–1991)
• Ralph McTell (1944)
• John Renbourn (1944)
• Ashley Hutchings (1945)
• June Tabor (1947)
• Maddy Prior (1947)
• Sandy Denny (1947–1978)
• Richard Thompson (1949)

Collections of songs or music

• 1905: Songs of the West (2nd ed) by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924)
• 1907: English Folk Song: Some Conclusions by Cecil Sharp (1859–1924)
• 1908: Traditional English Songs by Lucy Broadwood (1858–1929)
• 1913: The Morris Book by Cecil Sharp
• 1913: Sword Dances of Northern England by Cecil Sharp
• 1919: English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachian by Cecil Sharp
• 1922: The Country Dance Book by Cecil Sharp
• 1923: Folk Songs of the Upper Thames by Alfred Williams
• 1924: The Dance by Cecil Sharp

Early recordings

The dates of early commercial recordings, and the modern reissue albums on which they can be heard

• 1908: Scott Skinner (1843–1927) The Music of Scott Skinner
• 1908: Joseph Taylor (1832 – c. 1908) Unto Brigg Fair
• 1937: Phil Tanner (1862–1950) The Gower Nightingale