Imperial lives: confronting the legacies of empire, disability and the Victorians
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter explores the life histories of three deaf men and women from nineteenth-century Britain : John Kitto (1804-1854), George Tait (1828-1904) and Jane Groom (1839-1918), who all can, in some ways, be said to have lived imperial lives. John Kitto, from Plymouth, started work as a missionary in Malta, and later travelled to Baghdad where he wrote several texts in the ‘Orientalist’ vein. George Tait, born in the Scottish Highlands, became a Canadian settler, and set up the first school for the deaf in Halifax, Nova Scotia. And Jane Groom, originally from Shropshire, tried to establish a ‘deaf colony’ in Canada using the 1872 Homestead Act, which directly dispossessed First Nations people to secure land. As the lives of these three individuals intersected with the workings of the British Empire, this gives us an opportunity to consider the intersection between disability and colonialism more broadly.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".