Timeline for Why are UK Bank Holidays on Mondays?
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| May 3, 2019 at 14:38 | vote | accept | Chris Rogers | ||
| May 4, 2019 at 4:51 | |||||
| May 3, 2019 at 13:56 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage | This is a brillian answer that does go a long way to explain 'why mondays'. | |
| May 3, 2019 at 13:44 | comment | added | Chris | While this answer is very interesting it doesn't address the question of why things like the may bank holidays, and august bank holiday are on a monday. It feels unlikely that it was just coincidence that these days all happen to be mondays... | |
| May 3, 2019 at 12:45 | comment | added | Will Appleby | Wanted to downvote but not enough rep. It's a detailed answer but doesn't really address the question I think is being asked: Why are most national non-working days on Monday | |
| May 3, 2019 at 11:20 | comment | added | David Richerby | Sorry but in common parlance in the UK, "bank holiday" means "any kind of national day off work except the weekend." Yes, you're technically correct that many public holidays aren't actually bank holidays, that isn't helpful to the question. | |
| May 3, 2019 at 9:02 | comment | added | Tor Klingberg | This answer is needlessly nit-picky. Here is a UK government website listing bank holidays, and it includes Christmas Day and Good Friday. Maybe they are not bank holidays is some strict legal sense, but they are in the way the term "bank holiday" is normally used. | |
| May 2, 2019 at 15:23 | history | answered | JdeBP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |