English folk music (1500–1899)

Births and deaths

William Kimber (1872–1961), English morris musician
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), English composer and song collector
Sam Larner (1878–1965), English folk singer
Percy Grainger (1882–1961), Australian composer who collected and recorded English folk songs
Harry Cox (1885–1971), English folk singer
Lewis 'Scan' Tester (1886–1972), English folk musician

1651: English Dancing Master (1st of at least 17 editions), published by John Playford (1623–1686)
1725: A Collection of Old Ballads, Ambrose Philips (1674–1749) (ed.)
1765: Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Thomas Percy (1721–1811) (ed.)
1765: Mother Goose's Melody published by Thomas Carnan (1737–1788)
1788: Yorkshire Garland, republished in 1809 by Joseph Ritson (1752–1803)
1793: Northumberland Garland, republished in 1809 by Joseph Ritson (1752–1803)
1798: Joshua Jackson's Book (manuscript), by Joshua Jackson (1763–1869)<ref name="Jackson 1798" />
1827: Minstrelsy Ancient and Modern, published by William Motherwell (1797–1835)
1842: Nursery Rhymes of England, collected and edited by James Orchard Halliwell (1820–1889)
1849: Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales, collected and edited by James Orchard Halliwell (1820–1889)
1859: Popular Music of Olden Time, William Chappell (1809–1888) (ed.)
1882: Northumbrian Minstrelsy – A Collection of the Ballads, Melodies and Small-Pipe Tunes of Northumbria, J. Collingwood Bruce (1805–1892) and John Stokoe (eds.)<ref name="Bruce-Stokoe 1882" />
1882: English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Francis James Child (1825–1896) (ed.)
1893: English County Songs, collected and edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland (1856–1936) and Lucy Broadwood (1858–1929)
1893: Songs and Ballads of Northern England, collected and edited by John Stokoe