Bank holidays in England and Wales

Bank and public holidays in England and Wales from 2010 onwards, for seasonality controls. Rows from 2012 onwards are taken verbatim from the GOV.UK bank holidays feed (the current feed for 2019 onwards and archived copies of the same feed for 2012 to 2018); 2010 and 2011 are transcribed from the archived Directgov bank holidays page. Apostrophes are normalised to ASCII.

Usage

lamp_bank_holidays()

Value

A tibble with columns date (Date), title, notes (for example Substitute day), bunting (logical, as published; NA for the transcribed 2010 and 2011 rows), source and source_url.

See also

Other bundled data: lamp_area_lookup(), lamp_crime_types(), lamp_deprivation(), lamp_forces(), lamp_lsoa_lookup(), lamp_outcome_types(), lamp_sample_panel(), lamp_shocks()

Examples

bh <- lamp_bank_holidays()
range(bh$date)
#> [1] "2010-01-01" "2028-12-26"
bh[format(bh$date, "%Y") == "2023", c("date", "title")]
#> # A tibble: 9 × 2
#>   date       title                                              
#>   <date>     <chr>                                              
#> 1 2023-01-02 New Year's Day                                     
#> 2 2023-04-07 Good Friday                                        
#> 3 2023-04-10 Easter Monday                                      
#> 4 2023-05-01 Early May bank holiday                             
#> 5 2023-05-08 Bank holiday for the coronation of King Charles III
#> 6 2023-05-29 Spring bank holiday                                
#> 7 2023-08-28 Summer bank holiday                                
#> 8 2023-12-25 Christmas Day                                      
#> 9 2023-12-26 Boxing Day