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The August bank holiday weekend should be moved two weeks back due to predictably bad weather, a group of historians said yesterday.
With downpours expected across Britain today, the London Socialist Historians Group said the date should be reviewed for future years.
The historians said a change of date would be more popular than christening the event Margaret Thatcher Day, proposed by some Tories last year.
The August bank holiday was originally set as the first Monday of the month, but pressure from the holiday industry saw it changed in 1965.
“The UK simply has too few public holidays — so it is a particular disappointment when one of them turns out to have bad weather,” said LSHG convenor Dr Keith Flett.
He said the weekend of August 2-4 this year had superior weather.
Bank holidays were the only statutory paid holidays available to workers prior to the 1938 Holidays with Pay Act.
