English folk music (1900–1949)
# 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
