Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… interaction and gentlemanly conviviality, but also challenged the rules of sociability and friendship. Available in London gentlemen’s clubs for their members, betting books provided the written proof of the commitment of both parties … with the development of life insurance. ‘Life insurance was largely an urban phenomenon’ 2 and the growth of the London insurance market was associated with the expansion of English foreign trade in the second half of the seventeenth … 1 . The Connoisseur, n° 15 (Thursday May 9, 1754) 2 . Geoffrey Clark, ‘Life insurance in the society and culture of London, 1700-75’, Urban History, (vol. 24, n° 1, May 1997), p. 25. 3 . The South Sea Bubble corresponds to the …
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