Daily bread 02/03/2020

• The modern phenomenon of the weekend - BBC Worklife

  •  gaining traction
  • has also been derided.
  • it strikes me that
  • a relatively modern phenomenon.
  • was a piecemeal and uneven affair
  • Saint Monday mimicked the religious Saint Day holidays
  • an entirely secular practice
  • were keen to instil a more formal holiday in the working week
  • cock fighting
  • was singled out
  • to draw the worker from the public house
  • a burgeoning leisure industry
  • reduced fares for day-trippers to the countryside
  • switched their star entertainment from a Monday to Saturday
  • to help forge the modern week
  • was beginning to take shape
  • took off in the 1890s
  • neither swift nor uniform
  • an irresistible pull towards
  • laid the groundwork for

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