title: English folk music (1900–1949)
text: # 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
  