British Insurance Business. A guide to its history and records

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First published 1975. Guide to surviving archives of insurance companies with brief historical details of each business [pp118-89] and authoritative introductory chapters on the history of insurance [pp3-116] covering: 1] Marine insurance; 2] Fire insurance; 3] Life insurance; 4] Accident insurance; 5] Financial framework of British insurance. Also includes a schedule of archives of insurance company agencies. For a preliminary account of the project to survey the industry's records see Edwin Green, 'Insurance sources for historians. A progress report', Business Archives, 40, 1974, pp33-40