National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers (NAULAW)

Scope and Content

Executive council and committee minutes; annual reports and balance sheets; annual meeting agendas; 'Assurance agents' union chronicle'; section and branch records.

Administrative / Biographical History

The National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers was founded in 1919, after the amalgamation of the National Union of Life Assurance Agents, the Wesleyan and General Assurance Agents' Association, the Prudential Life Assurance Agents' Association, the Blackburn Philanthropic Assurance Agents' Association, and the Scottish Legal (English, Irish and Welsh) Assurance Agents' Association.

With effect from 1 October 1964, it amalgamated with the National Federation of Insurance Workers to form the National Union of Insurance Workers.

Access Information

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

Acquisition Information

Records with reference codes beginning MSS.144 were in deposits made by Frank Crump, insurance trade union official, and his son; records with reference codes beginning MSS.158 were deposited by Albert Vandome, NAULAW official; records with reference codes beginning MSS.411 were deposited by Manufacturing, Science, Finance, a successor union.

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Related Material

The Centre also holds: records of NAULAW officials, Alfred Best (MSS.141), S.P. Long (MSS.142), Frank Crump (MSS.144), Albert Vandome (MSS.158) and George W. Vandome (MSS.166); records of NAULAW's predecessor, the National Union of Life Assurance Agents, and its successor the National Union of Insurance Workers; records of the National Federation of Insurance Workers.