Evidence item

A BBC Worklife history article describes Saturday-plus-Sunday leave as a relatively modern phenomenon and dates the established 48-hour weekend to the 1930s. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: The modern phenomenon of the weekend · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:bd89085797228c62230506ab2297c19e56a976b54597b90bbe02920489074399

Exact excerpt

Having Saturdays as well as Sundays off work is actually a relatively modern phenomenon. ... The 48-hour weekend as we know it today was established in the 1930s.

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