Godfrey gave a pre-1939 lecture titled 'The Value of History' at the Royal Naval Staff College, its content unread

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Among Godfrey's papers, catalogued separately from his wartime intelligence material, is a "Bound typescript volume: 'The Value of History'. Transcript of a lecture given by Godfrey at the Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich" (GOD/26), from his tenure there as directing staff and later Deputy Director (roughly 1923–1931). This establishes that Godfrey had a documented, named engagement with the subject of historical method years before he took up the 1939 NID post that produced the Admiralty Code's grading scheme — but the lecture's actual content (whether it touches evidentiary method or source criticism, or is instead naval-strategic history in the "lessons of Trafalgar" mode common to staff colleges) is not digitized and was not read this session.

The existence of the item is confirmed at Tier 1; its content is [unverified-mechanism — needs primary] and should not be read as evidence either for or against an academic-historical influence on the grading scheme. It is the single most on-point archival item located this session for the underlying question of whether Godfrey's own historical thinking connects to Quellenkritik-style source criticism — a coincidence of subject, not yet a finding.