Black Friday in 2019 is the day after the Thanksgiving festival in the US and a time when commercial enterprises discount stock marking arguably the real start of the pre-Xmas sales season.
In recent years it has spread significantly to the UK even now into the upper echelons of UK retail.
Black Friday has a quite different meaning in British history however referring to the date, 15th April 1921, when transport unions refused to back miners action against wage reductions. This was part of the precursor of the industrial drama that was the 1926 General Strike.
Another impact of Black Friday was the formation of the General Council of the TUC…
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/black-friday-tuc.htm
Wiki on Black Friday
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