Politics and place in suburban Walthamstow, 1870-1914
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Abstract
There has recently been renewed interest in the politics of suburbia, however the politics of the working-class suburb remains a neglected subject. Between 1870 and 1914 there was an enormous expansion of working-class suburbs outside the boundaries of the L.C.C. in town such as Walthamstow, Tottenham and Edmonton. This process has been seen by some as having a de-radicalising influence on working-class politics. In this thesis I seek to show that in reality there was a complex politics in suburban Walthamstow involving existing residents, developers and new suburbans in contests over competing visions of the suburb’s destiny as a place. In contrast to the traditional image of the Conservative suburb, we find that Radicalism was successful in establishing itself after 1870 by exploring a growing sense of Walthamstow as a working-class place. As a result Radical-Progressivism became the dominant popular political ideology in Walthamstow between 1894 and 1914. However, this dominance was never uncontested, and by the end of the period, as Walthamstow’s suburbanity was changing, there were signs that Radicals were having increasing difficulty in maintaining their claim to represent Walthamstow’s working class against challenges from both the left and the right.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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 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".