The Insurance Museum (IM) is thrilled to announce it has been awarded a £249,700 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The grant will go towards the IM project, Insurance Heritage at Risk, which will… Read More »Insurance Museum awarded grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
By Howard Benge, Insurance Museum Director Over the past couple of years, we have been establishing the foundations of the Insurance Museum, gaining support and building up its programme of CPD talks, webinars and tours… Read More »Season’s Greetings and Good News Coming….
ISC Group is proud to announce the launch of its Cool Jobs Podcast Initiative, created in partnership with the Insurance Museum and The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). The first phase of this inspiring project features… Read More »“Cool Jobs” Podcast series showcasing the extraordinary world of insurance
By John Lane, IM Volunteer Recently, I had the opportunity to explore a small selection of Reg Brown’s extensive collection of insurance-related postcards. While all the cards were fascinating from a historical standpoint, two, in… Read More »The Pelican and British Empire Life Office
By Reg Brown, Chair of the Insurance Museum I promised more on the Congress, and this time I’m writing about a speech by J.B. Levison, Vice President of Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company. Mr Levison was… Read More »The World’s Insurance Congress 1915
What goes round, comes around I recently attended the Chartered Insurance Institute’s Shaping the Future of Insurance conference on INNOVATION + IMPACT. The principal subject discussed was Artificial Intelligence and the effect it will have… Read More »Chairman’s Message – December 2025
In early October, the Friends of the Museo Dell’assicurazione (MUDA) in Milan visited London, and on the Friday, they were the guests of the Insurance Museum. We arranged a tour of Lloyd’s of London, followed… Read More »Museo Dell’assicurazione visit to London
In a previous article, Reg Brown examined postcards related to Chocolate Clubs – https://insurance.museum/from-reg-browns-postcard-collections. We were a bit unclear about what a chocolate club was, as Reg was working from the postcards. He finished the… Read More »Chocolate Clubs
This article started over a coffee in the Lloyd’s Building with Reg Brown, the Chairman of the Insurance Museum, on 27 August 2024. During a conversation about the work of the Museum, for reasons I… Read More »Definitely, Maybe… or not at all?: Insuring concerts
One of the most interesting postcards in my collection is this card, postally used by the Royal Insurance Company on a date which is impossible to read in 1911. The image is of the Royal… Read More »Royal Article 1915 World’s Insurance Congress
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