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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Language Arabic Place Iraq, Middle East, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/1222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1222
Title:
File 4537/1927 Pt 1-2 'Iraq: Kuwait and Mohammerah Date Gardens'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the matter of tax exemption on the date gardens in Iraq belonging to the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Shaikh of Mohammerah. The exemption was promised to the shaikhs by the British for assistance given during the First World War. The volume covers the inte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1927-1933
Extent:
1 volume (1152 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2088

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2088
Title:
Coll 6/21(2) 'Saudi Arabia: Relations with H.M.G.: Saudi Legation in London and British Minister in Jeddah. Prolongation of Treaty of Jedda.'
Scope & Content:
This file, like the previous volume (IOR/L/PS/12/2087), concerns relations between the British Government and the Government of Saudi Arabia. The file largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, mainly between His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, Sir Reader William...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1935-12 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (379 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2845-2902

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2845-2902
Title:
Political (External) Collection 17: Iraq
Scope & Content:
This collection consists of files mainly relating to the administration of Iraq, relations between Iraq and the United Kingdom, and relations between Iraq and neighbouring states and other nations, during the period of the British Mandate (1921-1932), independence (1932-1941), and the subsequent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1921-1948
Extent:

46 files and 12 volumes (15,176 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/235
Title:
‘ARAB TRIBES OF THE BAGHDAD WILAYAT’
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled Arab Tribes of the Baghdad Wilayat [vilayet], and is a British intelligence document on the tribes living in the area around the city of Baghdad. It was compiled in July 1918 by the Arab Bureau, Baghdad (the Arab Bureau was a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department es...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:

1 volume (147 folios)