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Abstract
2014 has certainly been a momentous year for the Gaskell Society, for in October Elizabeth Gaskell's House reopened after a £2.5m restoration. The Society has long been involved in raising funds for the House, donating £1,000 for the first feasibility study. Who could forget the day when at the Cross Street Meeting an emotional Janet Allan made the announcement that the House had been saved, bought by the Manchester Historic Buildings Trust? After that the mammoth task of finding the money to bring the house back to its former glory began, and the Society continued its support of the House in many ways during the years that followed. The Friends of Plymouth Grove was established, and most of those early members belonged to the society. For ten years the hard work of many of those members, along with others, finally and joyfully led to the reopening of the House on 3 October 2014. No wonder our members feel so proud of the part they played in making Elizabeth Gaskell's House once more a house that can 'give [...] much pleasure to others'.Back in March, we once again took part in the Manchester Histories Festival, sharing a stall with Elizabeth Gaskell's House. The festival gets bigger every year and so is an important source of publicity for both the Society and the House. Naturally the House was the focus of people's attention this year, but the Society also made some very useful contacts.Later in the month a number of members gathered at Piccadilly Station, Manchester, to witness the unveiling of the Elizabeth Gaskell train, by George Osborne, MP for Tatton. This Northern Rail train will travel the network around Greater Manchester and Cheshire, linking Knutsford and Manchester - places so important to Gaskell's life and her writing. Inside the first carriage is a poster saying that the train is 'named after the internationally acclaimed author, Elizabeth Gaskell' and emphasising the importance of the arrival of the railways in many of her novels. This will be an excellent source of publicity, both for Elizabeth Gaskell as a writer and for the Society.In April we held our AGM at Cross Street Chapel and once again Shirley Foster presided over the proceedings with her now customary efficiency. We welcomed Pauline Kiggins and Shirley Rea on to the committee. Following the meeting, David Sekers, former Director of Quarry Bank Mill, gave us a talk, taking as his title 'Hannah Greg, a woman of compassion and courage'. David is the author of A Lady of Cotton: Hannah Greg, Mistress of Quarry Bank Mill and acted as a consultant for the TV programme, The Mill. He told us of the influence Hannah had upon her husband, the mill-owner, Samuel Greg, and the part she played in looking after the welfare of the workers and apprentices at the mill.After lunch, local historian Geoff Scargill gave a fascinating account of the life of Sir Edward Watkin, the 'Nearly Man of Manchester'. Sir Edward was an MP and railway entrepreneur, and it was not only England that benefited from his enterprise: he was also responsible for the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, uniting the Canadian provinces. The most surprising fact that we learnt from Geoff was that Watkin had started to build a tunnel under the channel, over a hundred years before the start of the Eurotunnel. We also heard the strange tale of the disappearing painting. A thoroughly entertaining talk!September saw a group of us enjoying a study tour of Italy, following in 'The Steps of Mrs Gaskell'. Led once again by Anthony Coles, we visited the places and saw the works of art that made Elizabeth Gaskell declare, '[. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.014 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.177 | 0.154 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".