The City of York

YORK HISTORY CONTENTS:
A History of York from Baine's Gazetteer (1823)

• A HISTORY OF EARLY YORK
  • Origin of the City
  • York built by the Romans
  • Severus arrives in Britain and York
  • The imperial purple assumed by Geta and Caracalla
  • Carausius proclaimed Emperor of the Romans at York
  • Decline of the Roman Empire and Britain abandoned
  • Roman remains

• YORK IN THE DARK AGES
  • Picts, Scots, Saxons and Danes
  • King Arthur
  • Harold

• YORK IN THE MIDDLE AGES
  • The Norman Invasion
  • Normans against Saxons and Danes at York
  • York prospers
  • Massacre of Jews at York
  • The kings of the middle ages at York

• YORK AND THE TUDORS, THE CIVIL WAR AND THE RESTORATION
  • Suppression of the monasteries
  • James I and Charles I visit York
  • Civil War and York
  • Henry Jenkins at the York assizes
  • Restoration of the Crown

• YORK UP TO EARLY NINETEETH CENTURY
  • No more visits from the crown
  • The present-day walls and gates of York with its wards

• YORK'S CATHEDRAL
  • The cathedral and its beginnings
  • The cathedral, its fires and rebuildings
  • Periods of public services
  • Curiosities in the cathedral
  • Persons of distinction interred here
  • The clergy of the cathedral
  • Places of interest

• YORK'S CHURCHES, DISSENTING CHAPELS, THE NUNNERY AND RUINS
  • Churches of York
  • Dissenting chapels of York
  • The Nunney
  • Decayed religious houses, churches and chapels
  • Other old buildings of York

• YORK'S BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS
  • Hospitals
  • More hospitals
  • Lunatic Asylums
  • Free schools
  • Sunday schools
  • Charitable institutions

• YORK'S TRADE AND AMUSEMENTS
  • Trade, commerce and newpapers
  • Market days and fairs
  • Merchant companies, stamp and post offices
  • Navigation
  • Hawkers' and Pedlars' office and Excise office
  • Manufacturing
  • Places of public amusement
  • Race Course
  • Public baths

• MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS OF YORK
  • Prisons and Courts of Justice
  • The Corporation, Mansion House and Guildhall
  • Libraries
  • Cavalry Barracks

• EMINENT CHARACACTERS OF YORK
  • From all walks of life