Social Reformers And Humanitarians Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-05 · 5 entries checked · 3 flagged · 6 issues confirmed · 3 corrected · 3 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Edwin Chadwick — Chadwick's younger half-brother was not baseball icon Henry Chadwick; Henry Chadwick (1824–1908) was a journalist and baseball writer, but there is no established historical evidence that he was Edwin Chadwick's half-brother.

Edwin Chadwick — The claim that Chadwick employed surveyor John Roe, inventor of the egg-shaped sewer, is not supported by standard historical accounts.

Elizabeth Fry — The Gaols Act of 1823 did not require prisons to separate men and women or to have female officers attend female prisoners; those provisions were introduced later.

Elizabeth Fry — The claim that Fry's portrait appeared on the Bank of England £5 note from 2002 until May 2017 is incorrect; it was replaced by a new polymer note featuring Winston Churchill in 2016, though the old note ceased to be legal tender in May 2017.

Etta Palm d'Aelders — The entry states that the Société des Citoyennes Républicaines Révolutionnaires (1793) preceded the Société patriotique et de bienfaisance des Amies de la Vérité, but the Société patriotique was founded in 1791, which is earlier than 1793, so the claim of prec

Etta Palm d'Aelders — The tagline says Etta Palm d'Aelders 'addressed the French National Convention,' but the entry correctly notes her speech was to the Cercle Social, not the National Convention; the tagline is factually incorrect.

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