Wonderful to Behold: A Centenary History of the Lincoln Record Society, 1910–2010, by Nicholas Bennett
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Abstract
This hundredth volume of the Lincoln Record Society (LRS) chronicles the first century of its own activities. It is at once an account of an institution for itself and also a case-study of an important strand in English historiography. The use and value of local evidence as part of more general and shared historical investigation and understanding has been central to the LRS from the outset. This is eloquently emphasised in Alexander Hamilton Thompson’s 1935 obituary (p. 80) of Canon Charles Wilmer Foster, founder and linchpin of the Society for its first twenty-five years. Foster’s, and the Society’s, purpose was to make accessible ‘the wealth of historical material contained in the collections of the [Lincoln] diocese and other records’. To this task he brought an ‘acute critical intelligence and a passion for tracing each detail to its ultimate source and cause’, together with an appreciation of both ‘the local and parochial importance of his material’ and of ‘its value in illustrating and enriching the history of the nation in general’. Foster combined ‘the spirit of the antiquary to whom no fact is insignificant with the mind of the historian who assembles such facts with a proper sense of their connected meaning and relative value’. This made Foster and the Society pioneers in the ‘work of demonstrating the dignity of local history and archaeology as a necessary part of historical study’. Nicholas Bennett, the present general editor, tracks in seven chapters the aspirations and disappointments, the personalities and mundane practicalities, the distractions and achievements of the LRS. Substantial appendices list members since 1910, and detail each of the published volumes, with contents list and brief description.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.003 |
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".