Given the infinite variety of risks throughout history, it is perhaps unsurprising that insurance - the world's primary risk mitigation industry - developed a wide range of organisational forms by which it was delivered. Yet we know little about how and why different forms were chosen in the...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Lloyd’s: its history and business practices -- Chapter 3: Lloyd’s people: their social composition and political economy -- Chapter 4: Expansion, scandals and frauds – Lloyd’s in the 1970s -- Chapter 5: The first reforms and public scrutiny --...