English folk music (1900–1949)

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