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Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand registers - Part 4 Let’s all go down the Strand

Our first stop on this side of the board is Strand where I noted Hand in Hand insuring a number of successful businesses — so many, in…

Dec 4, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand registers - Part 4 Let’s all go down the Strand

Dec 4, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand registers — part 3 Electric Light Company to Vine…

Part 3 of our trip around the monopoly board begins with the electric light company. Although the registers are a bit too early for Hand…

Nov 3, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand registers — part 3 Electric Light Company to Vine…

Nov 3, 2024

Insuring Grosvenor Square

The final episodes of the latest Bridgerton series are about to drop on Netflix. The fictional Bridgertons and their neighbours, the…

Jun 12, 2024

Insuring Grosvenor Square

Jun 12, 2024

Remembering D-Day

Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day when over 150,000 allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy from more than 5000 ships and…

Jun 6, 2024

Remembering D-Day

Jun 6, 2024

The Flixborough Disaster

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Flixborough disaster. On 1st June 1974, a cloud of hot cyclohexane vapour escaped from the Nypro UK…

Jun 1, 2024

The Flixborough Disaster

Jun 1, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand Registers — Part 2 — Pall Mall

Part two of our trip round the Monopoly board starts (and ends) at Pall Mall. I’ve spotted so many houses Hand in Hand insured here…

Apr 24, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand Registers — Part 2 — Pall Mall

Apr 24, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand Registers — Part 1

At the end of last year, we finally finished our mammoth project to scan the 150 policy registers of our oldest ancestor company Hand in…

Apr 18, 2024

Around the Monopoly board with the Hand in Hand Registers — Part 1

Apr 18, 2024

Insuring Georgian Wimbledon

The Wimbledon Championships finish week so I thought I’d have a look at properties we insured in Wimbledon, — or Wimbleton, as the Hand in…

Jul 15, 2023

Insuring Georgian Wimbledon

Jul 15, 2023

Insuring Georgian Chelsea

It is Chelsea Flower Show this week, so I’ve used it as an excuse to look at some of the references to Chelsea I’ve found while scanning…

May 24, 2023

Insuring Georgian Chelsea

May 24, 2023

Tales of coronations past

The coronation of King Charles III will be the 12th coronation since Aviva’s oldest ancestor company, Hand in Hand, was established in…

May 4, 2023

Tales of coronations past

May 4, 2023

Looking back to 1723

This weekend I’ve been having a look in the Hand in Hand policy registers to see what our customers of 300 years ago listed as their…

Feb 6, 2023

Looking back to 1723

Feb 6, 2023

Forgotten faces

Some of the saddest items in archive collections are photographs of unidentified people. I often find myself gazing into the faces of…

Nov 10, 2022

Forgotten faces

Nov 10, 2022

What was life like in 1952?

As the jubilee approaches, I’ve been delving into the staff magazines to see what life was like for people on the staff of our ancestor…

May 31, 2022

What was life like in 1952?

May 31, 2022

Aviva and Bridgerton

The focus of our current activities to mark Aviva’s 325th anniversary is the project to digitize the policy registers of our oldest…

Apr 20, 2022

Aviva and Bridgerton

Apr 20, 2022

Mr Miller’s plans and a fire at Clumber House

My new favourite person in the Archive is Robert Leist Miller who worked for Norwich Union. According to his obituary, written in 1848, he…

Mar 30, 2022

Mr Miller’s plans and a fire at Clumber House

Mar 30, 2022

A romantic mystery from the Archive

For Valentine’s Day I set myself the task of trying to identify the lucky couple who received good wishes on their wedding in 1880 from the…

Feb 13, 2022

A romantic mystery from the Archive

Feb 13, 2022

Hand in Hand — 325th anniversary

On 12 November 1696 a group of 12 men met in Tom’s Coffee House in St Martin’s Lane London to sign the deed of settlement for a new…

Nov 4, 2021

Hand in Hand — 325th anniversary

Nov 4, 2021

The name’s Bond…

The new James Bond film is finally due out in cinemas this week so it is time for an updated Bond-themed blog from the archive.

Sep 29, 2021

The name’s Bond…

Sep 29, 2021

Aviva’s golf links

Today the US Open gets underway at Torrey Pines and I thought it would be a good excuse to publish a short blog on Aviva’s golfing links…

Jun 17, 2021

Aviva’s golf links

Jun 17, 2021

Aviva and the beautiful game

To mark the belated start of UEFA Euro 2020, here is a selection of football-themed stories from the Archive.

Jun 11, 2021

Aviva and the beautiful game

Jun 11, 2021

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