Methodism in Great Britain and Ireland: A Select Bibliography of Published Local Histories
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Clive D. Field, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham, England, has published extensively on the social history of religion in Britain and of Methodism in particular. Here he uses a variety of sources to compile a catalogue of local histories of Methodism in Britain and Ireland, including all of the Arminian varieties of Methodism that make up the Methodist Church in Britain and the Methodist Church in Ireland, along with the continuingly separate Wesleyan Reform Union and Independent Methodist Churches.The book’s 4,000 entries Field acknowledges as ‘only the tip of the bibliographical iceberg’ (xiv) but argues that those included do constitute the most important items, based the substantive nature of the titles, regarding length, quality of research and writing, the importance of the subject, and the absence of competitor publications.Field hopes that the work will provide the springboard for further research, and this will surely be so: arranged topographically by current civil administrative units and subunits, the key Methodist histories for any given area are easily found and referenced. One feature that would make any future edition even more indispensable would be an additional index of entries by denomination: W. R. Ward described the way that often in Methodism ‘connexional organisation forced local disputes up to the centre and central policies down to the fringe’ and thus research into wider denominational developments will invariably draw upon local histories to explore these dynamics.Clive Field’s work will prove invaluable to historians of British or Irish Methodism whether their focus is local or national, and this volume will find its rightful place on their shelves.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".