180 years of Post: War in the 20th century and the impact on the insurance market

War shook up

Like many industries, the insurance market was considerably affected by both the First and the Second World War. With the Insurance Museum coming soon to the City of London, Post looks at the growing tensions in the insurance market prior to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and how it learned to adapt to the loss of expertise and the new insurance requirements that being at war presented

On 11 November 1919, the famous Lutine Bell in Lloyd’s tolled for the first two-minute silence in history: one minute for those who survived and another to remember those lost. The Great War was over

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