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Anna Stone, Group archivist
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.
General Accident's 125th anniversary
Archivist Blog 16 December 2010
Subjects:
History - Interesting stories
History - Staff memories
Materials - Magazines
This year marks the 125th anniversary of the establishment of the business that grew into one of our major constituent companies, General Accident.
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Building the World War Two section
Archivist Blog 11 November 2010
Subjects:
History - Interesting stories
History - Staff memories
I have been working on gathering the information from staff magazines, board minute books, war memorials, staff registers and insurance industry magazines for the past two years and am now busy putting all the information in order and making sure I know as much as I possibly can about the men and women on the staff who were either killed, captured or decorated in the conflict.
Dictators not tyrants
Archivist Blog 08 July 2010
Subjects:
History - Staff memories
Materials - Cartoons
Materials - Magazines
Following on from my last blog about women in the office I thought I would share a small selection of material from staff magazines dealing with the thorny relationship between typists and those who dictated to them.
We will remember them
Archivist Blog 07 November 2008
Subjects:
History - Interesting stories
History - Staff memories
In September, inspired by the forthcoming BBC Remembrance 90 campaign, I set out to see if Aviva could take part in the act of remembrance using records held in the archive relating to staff who served and died in the 1914-1918 war.
Rhymes from past times
Archivist Blog 11 July 2008
Subjects:
History - Interesting stories
History - Staff memories
The past few weeks have been unusually busy in the archive strong room. During the refurbishment of the surrounding buildings one end of the room was invaded by fine white dust and we have had a specialist disaster recovery firm in to remove it all.
The ex factor
Archivist Blog 17 June 2008
Subjects:
History - Staff memories
Input from former Aviva Group employees helps make our archive a valuable tool for the researchers of the future.
