The Invention of the Weekend

Articles by our own Professor Brad Beaven on how the current 48-hour weekend became the norm, were recently published in the Conversation and in The Independent:

Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/weekend-lesson-four-day-working-week-a9274096.html

Link: https://theconversation.com/history-of-the-two-day-weekend-offers-lessons-for-todays-calls-for-a-four-day-week-127382

Brad has published widely on urban popular culture, leisure and empire in Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.