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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.
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.
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Insurance claims - it's a funny business
Archivist Blog 01 February 2010
Subjects:
History - Interesting stories
Materials - Cartoons
A quick search of the internet reveals any number of collections of amusing insurance claims, indeed I have just read a few for research purposes and had to try very hard not to laugh out loud and disturb the researcher currently working in my office.
Drawing on the past
Archivist Blog 17 June 2008
Subjects:
History - Company acquisitions
Materials - Cartoons
A cartoon from a 1900 CU Annual gives a fascinating insight into the machinations of the insurance industry at the time.
