Anna Stone was appointed Group Archivist of Aviva in November 2000.

She discovered archives as a career half way through a degree in History at Exeter University. After a year of work experience in the archive section at Lloyds TSB, she took her MA in archives and records management at University College London. This included further work placements at BT and the Bank of England. Her first job after qualifying was as deputy archivist for Guinness based in an old hop store on the Park Royal Brewery.

Her first task on joining Aviva was to set up a new group archive in Norwich and transfer to it the archives of General Accident and Commercial Union which were then stored in Perth and London.

Orange peel and other hazards

Archivist Blog 29 July 2011
Subjects: History - Interesting stories

What do a vicar from Shropshire, a diabolo, a parrot and orange peel have in common?  The answer is that all are found on the lists of claims paid by personal accident companies in the last decades of the 19^th and the first decade of the 20^th centuries.

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