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A History of York from Baine's Gazetteer (1823)
Source=h:/!Genuki/RecordTranscriptions/ARY/YorkHistoryBaines.txt - 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
Data transcribed from:
Baines Gazetteer 1823
Scan, OCR and html software by Colin Hinson.
Checking and correction by Richard Tetley.
Baines Gazetteer 1823
Scan, OCR and html software by Colin Hinson.
Checking and correction by Richard Tetley.