As my name may suggest, I have a foot in both camps. For me, it's a question of being as accurate as possible in attributions (not always possible, for sure) and seeing fair play for both sides of the family, so to speak. At the moment, English traditional music is rather the underdog, which is why I place so much emphasis on it.

The story is that what set Chappell off was a Scottish work colleague who never missed an opportunity of sneering at English music, or of insisting that anything decent in it actually came from somewhere else. Chappell certainly disproved that, though it's also true that he was over-zealous in some cases. That's what happens when you react to an unfair situation; the true balance is usually somewhere in the middle.

Today, the marketing boys have built up a whole (rather bogus) "Celtic" edifice which creates more confusion and misunderstanding than it ought, though it does make things a little easier to find in record shops. In the end, I don't see distinctions based on borders on a map as particularly relevant, but while we are stuck with them we may as well try to get it right.