Talk:Public holidays in the United Kingdom

message: I dispute whether the Battle of the Boyne anniversary in Northern Ireland is ever called 'Orangeman's Day', either officially or otherwise. I have heard it called 'Boyne Day' or 'Orange Day' unofficially, but I have major doubts about whether even those names are widely used. Could someone from Northern Ireland clarify this? --Helenalex 04:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Department for Trade and Industry say it is, evidently. --Islomaniac 973 21:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orangeman's Day?? 

message: Unlike most of England. Scotland does not follow these bank holiday, now as this CLEARLY SAY "Public holidays in the United Kingdom" NOT Bank hoildays.  with that in mind then it should be noted that scotland 32 council deiced when half the holidays are taken.  when it comes to Last Monday in August (2009: 3 August) - Summer Bank Holiday
No one in scotland takes this holidays ALL the schools are open!!! ( as it week after the Scottish schools come back form summer holidays ) 
1 & 2 January, first Monday in may , St Andrews day , 25 & 26 December are the only dates when ALL of scotland is off at the same time. 
The other 3 dates as said above, up to the council area.    —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.205.118.84 (talk) 20:47, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Holidays in Scotland

message: This is the first time i have tried to contribute, so apologies if I mess this up.
Good Friday is not a public holiday in Scotland.  This monday (September weekend) is a holiday.  I don't have a definitive list, but if I get one I will post it here.  I just noticed it was wrong, and nearly came in to work on monday as a result!
Paddimir 14:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Friday in Scotland 

message: see Talk:Bank_holiday#Merge_with_Public_holidays_in_the_United_Kingdom.3F GameKeeper 21:53, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: searching uk bank holidays brings me here, should it not take me to 2009 results? Jamo777 (talk) 17:38, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Search? 

message: "In India holidays or compensation in lieu of holidays, are guaranteed by law (New Zealand is an example)."
Doesn't seem to make sense to me... Not sure if there's something I've misunderstood...Trust (talk) 23:23, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  First paragraph 

message: Is the Spring/late May bank holiday really called "Victoria Day" in England and Wales? I've never heard it. I know it is in Canada and (possibly?) Scotland, but not England. Moixa  —Preceding undated comment added 12:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Victoria Day? 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_holidays
Wouldn't it be suiting to add an unofficial section to the holidays celebrated in the United Kingdom, like the American equivalent?
I mean personally, to me, Guy Fawkes Night is as important as Easter. I mean is this article just an OFFICIAL public holiday article or something? Halloween, Guy Fawkes Night, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, Remembrance Day. These all have distinct British customs and value opposed to the American equivalents, and should be included or mentioned in some aspect, surely?--ThePhantasos (talk) 01:20, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unofficial holidays in Britain

message: I've made some substantial revisions to this article - see my comments in History.
This note is just to say that it is currently a 'work in progress' and I'm conscious of some particular points:
* The Intro is now rather lengthy and it may be appropriate to move some of it to separate headings.
* So far, I have only made changes relating to English & Welsh holidays, but plan to make similar changes to other UK countries as appropriate.
* Further investigation showed that my comments in the Intro about substitute dates for Christmas and Boxing Day are partly contradicted by the notes I've put against Boxing Day.  Haven't had time to review the former yet.
* Some of my changes have increased the overlap between this and the Bank holiday article. I note that merger of the two has previously been suggested with several comments against, but I do wonder whether it may be helpful to merge the UK-specific parts of the Bank holiday article with this article (obviously with a x-reference in the other) as the distinctions between the two articles as regards the UK are somewhat arbitary.
Meanwhile I propose to continue amendments as time permits. TrevorD (talk) 20:07, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Substantial revision 

message: Its been suggested that this page should be merged with Bank holiday page.
With the Scottish information/details now its own page it only leave same information, IE it duplicating.  Other page does contain Ireland I know its not part of United Kingdom BUT ITS IS part of the British Isles, There should be no need for any change to the name of the page in question Bank holiday, unless to change it to Bank holiday in British Isles.... [User:Crazyseiko]] (Crazyseiko)
Public holidays are a seperate thing from bank holidays, additionally public holidays is a generic phrase easily understood for people researching, those outside the UK may not know what a bank holiday is. I vote against merging.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.192.33.137 (talk) 09:47, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger

message: Does the table really need to show days in lieu separately like that - I find that more confusing that helpful. Do any other similar pages do it that way ? -- Beardo (talk) 16:24, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Days in lieu 

message: I propose that this page should redirect to bank holiday because that is what the government and everyone else calls them. All of the info on this page is already covered on bank holiday Queeninbriefs (talk) 08:40, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: This page is clearly Public holidays in the United Kingdom, ie ALL OF UK. All Bank holidays in the uk are NOT public holidays in the UK, etc. You have stated a very english point of view. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazyseiko (talk • contribs) 08:51, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

text: , It's covered in bank holiday because you copied it from this article without ensuring proper attribution, . Other than copying material you've made no effort to integrate the material or to treat all parts of the UK on an equal footing. Bank holiday also covers Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the channel islands which are not part of the UK. What was already messy is now messier. Cabayi (talk) 12:09, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect to  [[Bank Holiday]] 

message: The article for Oak Apple Day states that it was a public holiday until 1859 but this article says that the holidays were reduced to just 4 in 1834 and Oak Apple Day is not included in the list. This seems to be a contradiction somewhere? Kidburla (talk) 09:17, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oak Apple Day 

message: (I wasn't sure where to put this point, since it's related to a number of existing topics here.  So I decided to put it on its own.)  The dates described in Privilege day ought to be mentioned here, as they are effectively holidays at least for government workers.  It's something people (like me) trying to find whether certain offices might be closed on a given day would expect to find under Public holidays in the United Kingdom.  I'm not sure whether the information should be included on this page, or just a link to Privilege day.  I would go ahead and add a mention and link, but I'm not sure where on the page it should go.DSZ~enwiki (talk) 16:21, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Include Privilege days 

message: There is quite a bit of duplication between the Changes section and the Special holidays section. It's quite hard to separate them as in several cases the addition of a special bank holiday causes an existing bank holiday to be moved. I suggest merging these two sections together. --Jameboy (talk) 09:33, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication