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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Subject Newspapers

1. IOR/L/PS/10/348

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/348
Title:
File 617/1913 Publications: the Near East; purchase of copies for India
Scope & Content:
The volume contains telegrams and correspondence regarding a Government of India proposal to purchase and distribute copies of the newspaper The Near East among Indian Muslims. The volume also contains a distribution list and a distribution plan, receipts and correspondence regarding the subscri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jun 1912-14 Apr 1919
Extent:
1 volume (189 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/177-179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/177-179
Title:
File 2 Books and Publications
Scope & Content:
The Books and Publications files of the Political Agency, Bahrain contain two kinds of material: files concerning publicity in newspapers and journals about Bahrain and affairs in the wider Persian Gulf, much of it deriving from the Arabic language press and much if it of a sensitive or critic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1934-1946
Extent:
3 files (938 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1758-1763

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1758-1763
Title:
File 31 Books and Publications
Scope & Content:
The six files forming the 'Books and Publications' subject files were produced by the Political Agency in Bahrain. The 'Books and Publications' subject files mainly contain correspondence between the Political Resident at Bushire, the Political Agent at Bahrain, British and international print...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1933-1950
Extent:
6 files (1446 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/126
Title:
File 2/1 I PROPAGANDA (Absorption of Kuwait by Iraq)
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the proposed appointment of Persian representatives in Kuwait, and the Political relations between Iraq and Kuwait. There is also correspondence related to the proposal of the Iraqi Government to appoint an Iraqi Vice-Consul at Kuwait. The correspond...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Sep 1929-13 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 volume (341 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/5/127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/127
Title:
'File 2/1 II IRAQ PROPAGANDA. (Absorption of Kuwait by Iraq). Relations etc.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, and confidential papers sent between British officials in the Gulf regarding Iraqi propaganda against Kuwait. Communications were made with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Pasha al-Said and the Ruler of Kuwait, in this regard. The cor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
20 Feb 1939-29 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 volume (154 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/162
Title:
File 2/9 Anti-British propaganda
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence between British officials in Iraq and the Persian Gulf discussing Arabic language newspaper extracts and articles on the British presence in the Middle East. Most of the papers discuss ways of countering or restricting the circulation of anti-British, anti-col...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1933-22 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (370 folios)

7. Mss Eur F231/30, ff 65-68

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/30, ff 65-68
Title:
‘Letters from Mr Murray received January 23.1857’
Scope & Content:
This bundle consists of summaries of official secret letters received from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray residing at Baghdad (9-10, 15, 19-20 and 22 December 1856). This amount of content for each entry therefore varies. The main topics covered are Murray's assessment of articl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)