{"id":1677,"date":"2020-02-05T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2020-02-20T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T11:19:16","slug":"the-invention-of-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"The Invention of the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ARTSTOR_103_41822001656352.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1679\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?attachment_id=1679\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ARTSTOR_103_41822001656352.jpg?fit=715%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"715,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ARTSTOR_103_41822001656352\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ARTSTOR_103_41822001656352.jpg?fit=715%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1679 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ARTSTOR_103_41822001656352.jpg?resize=209%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ARTSTOR_103_41822001656352.jpg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ARTSTOR_103_41822001656352.jpg?w=715&amp;ssl=1 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>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 <em>The Independent<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/weekend-lesson-four-day-working-week-a9274096.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/weekend-lesson-four-day-working-week-a9274096.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/history-of-the-two-day-weekend-offers-lessons-for-todays-calls-for-a-four-day-week-127382\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/history-of-the-two-day-weekend-offers-lessons-for-todays-calls-for-a-four-day-week-127382<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brad has published widely on urban popular culture, leisure and empire in Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &nbsp; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[159,17],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-in-focus","tag-leisure","tag-nineteenth-century"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p91PlX-r3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}