Wartime memories of James Robinson and Joan Dickens
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Abstract
At the start of the war in 1939, Jim was 25 years old and Joan was 21. They both came from Prescot near Liverpool, and met at the local tennis club. They were married in Prescot Parish Church in January 1942 just as the last bombs were falling on Liverpool, and moved to St Helens. Joan was trained as a commercial secretary at a Liverpool college. When there was an air raid, which happened with great frequency in those times in Liverpool, Joan and her fellow students would go down into the air raid shelters. Joan subsequently worked as a secretary at the Halifax Building Society in St Helens. As the men who had previously worked at the branch were away fighting, Joan had to help run the branch. Jim was an accountant in St Helens, and told his family in the years after the war, that he did "secret war work in Manchester". As with many of that generation involved in some of the important war work that was classed as secret, and would probably have entailed Jim signing The Official Secrets Act, the exact nature of his work was never divulged and his family would never know what it was he did. Jim was in the Home Guard, stationed in Knowsley Park, Prescot. The main function of the unit was to man the anti-aircraft guns to try to protect Liverpool - a critical job given the Liverpool was the most heavily bombed area of the country, outside London. Around 4,000 people were killed in the Merseyside area during the Blitz. This death toll was second only to London, which suffered over 40,000 by the end of the war.Both Joan's and Jim's fathers were in reserved occupations. James Robinson Sr worked for the BICC in Prescot, mainly making cables. Oswald Dickens worked for the coal board. As both these jobs were of critical value in the war effort and because both were older men, they were not called to serve in any of the armed forces.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.006 |
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".