I was inspired to use this headline question by the Daily Telegraph headline on 6 March 2022: “Why is there no Museum of England?” The question was posed by former director of the British Museum,… Read More »“Why don’t we have an Insurance Museum?”
By Howard Benge, Director, Insurance Museum The Insurance Museum has been defining the role it can play in the wide landscape of education. It wants to develop a programme that will educate children on the… Read More »Insurance, Schools, Education and Careers
Ledger book from the De Rougemont Syndicate Many items from companies’ pasts have been left, discarded and forgotten. Often a document which is no longer of use or has no purpose will be destroyed.… Read More »Museum Objects
“Cammi” by Paul Miller ‘Cammi’ Grizzard was for years, an underworld king and a notorious ‘fence’. His speciality was organising jewel robberies which cost insurance companies thousands. In 1913, he almost cost Lloyd’s of London £135,000.… Read More »History Feature
The Insurance Museum is very excited that the IM Membership scheme has now been launched. As we grow and develop, we want to bring our supporters closer to us by offering exclusive access to features,… Read More »Insurance Museum Membership
The Insurance Museum is proud to announce it has a new website. The previous version was over four years old, so it was time to update the infrastructure, content and look. The new site will… Read More »The New Insurance Museum Website
It was wonderful being at the BIBA 2022 conference, catching up with those we have not seen for the last two years and meeting new people from across the UK and further afield. Again, we… Read More »Conference season
The Insurance Museum has a new trustee, Paul Miller, Compliance Recruiter, at insurance recruitment specialists, HFG. Paul has been a long-time supporter of the Insurance Museum having been one of our earliest “History Ambassadors” who… Read More »Trustee News
(Victoria Square, Hull, showing the Prudential building with the tower) Our guest Insurance Historian in this Newsletter is Andrew Carrick, Business Partner at Marsh Commercial and based in Kingston upon Hull. He has researched much… Read More »History Feature
Guardian Insurance Postcards The art of collecting postcards is known as deltiology. There are many deltiologists and collections out there, and, in particular, there is a collection of Insurance Postcards dating from the late 1890s… Read More »Object of the Month – Guardian Postcards
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