Shook Up Insurance
As Post celebrates its 180th birthday it looks at the events, deals and people that 'shook up insurance' since its inception.
Post Magazine celebrates 180th birthday
This weekend Post Magazine celebrated its 180th birthday given the first issue appeared on Saturday 25 July 1840.
180 Years of Post - The history of direct insurance in the UK: How Direct Line and Churchill took on the establishment and ended up as merger partners
As Post celebrates 180 years, Post content director Jonathan Swift explores the birth of direct insurance in the UK and how two key early movers Direct Line and Churchill went from rivals to merger bedfellows in a deal that literally 'shook up insurance'.
180 years of Post: The magazine that shook up insurance
Post Magazine first appeared on Saturday 25 July 1840, just seven months after the introduction of the Penny Post and was the first publication anywhere in the world to be sent by post – hence its name. It, therefore, ranks among one of the most…