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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Language English Place Isfahan, Asia, Persia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/197/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/197/2
Title:
File 6/1912 Part 2 'Persia: Shiraz situation; Swedish gendarmerie; Bushire road'
Scope & Content:
Part 2 consists of correspondence relating to insecurity in southern Persia, and is a continuation of part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/197/1). The papers tell of the British response to the situation, covering the following matters: a detachment of troops at Ispahan [Isfahan], its accommodation, and the deci...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1912-Dec 1912
Extent:
1 item (251 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/479

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/479
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 2 'German War: Persian neutrality'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns diplomatic tensions between Persian, Ottoman, Russian and British Governments, at the outset of the First World War (Anglo-German war in the file). The main focus is the Russian occupation of Tabriz and Persian Azerbaijan, ending with Persia's neutrality in 1914. The volume ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4 Nov 1914-5 Mar 1915
Extent:
1 volume (170 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/481

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/481
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 4 'German War: Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in Persia and in the Eastern territories of the Ottoman Empire (Iraq), during the First World War. The main focus is the Turkish action in Persia, and the British intrigues to maintain control over Persia, preventing the country from entering the war and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, German, and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
27 Jan 1915-13 May 1915
Extent:
1 volume (333 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/653

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/653
Title:
File 469/1917 Pt 2 'Persia: Bakhtiari affairs. Bakhtiari gendarmerie'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers (mainly correspondence and India Office minute papers) relating to the Bakhtiari [Baḵtīārī] tribe and Bakhtiari territory in Persia [Iran]. The papers largely concern the proposal to raise a force of gendarmerie, or Levy Corps, under British officers in the Bakhtiari t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Oct 1916-28 Apr 1921
Extent:
1 volume (264 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1106/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1106/1
Title:
File 443/1924 Pt 2 'Persia: Situation 1926-1930'
Scope & Content:
The item comprises correspondence, memoranda and minutes relating to political affairs in Persia [Iran]. The correspondence consists largely of telegrams and letters sent by the British Minister in Tehran, Sir Percy Lyham Loraine (from November 1926, Sir Robert Henry Clive), or the Chargé d'Affa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
24 Dec 1925-16 Sep 1930
Extent:
1 item (407 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3448

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3448
Title:
Coll 28/44 ‘Persia; Internal; Fars affairs, Shiraz Situation including Papers on Isfahan Plot.’
Scope & Content:
Papers and reports concerning a rebellion against the Persian Government by the country’s southern tribes (including the Qashqai and Bakhtiari) in the provinces of Isfahan and Fars in August 1946. The papers include: correspondence between the British Ambassador at Tehran, John Haller Le Rougete...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Sep 1946-29 Jan 1949
Extent:
1 file (153 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3529

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3529
Title:
Coll 28/116 ‘Persia (Iran). Isfahan – Consular situation reports’
Scope & Content:
Fortnightly consular diaries (monthly from November 1945), six-monthly consular reports, and correspondence, submitted by HM Consul at Isfahan, Charles Alexander Gault, who was superseded in 1946 by John William Wall. The papers, which cover much of the Second World War, the Anglo-Soviet occupat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 May 1942-31 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (431 folios)