British Insurance Business. A guide to its history and records
Details:
- Author(s) Cockerell, H A L, & Edwin Green
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1994
- Pages 2nd ed; 224pp; illus
- Publisher Sheffield Academic Press
- Place Published Sheffield
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
Notes:
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