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

1. IOR/L/PS/9/71/94

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/71/94
Title:
Letter from Major William Monteith, in Tabriz, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Scope & Content:
Letter from Major William Monteith, in Tabriz, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 26 October 1827. In the letter, Monteith reports that he was unable to effect the removal of the British detachment at Tabriz before the occupation of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Oct 1827
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/478

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/478
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 1 'German War: Persian attitude towards Turkey'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns diplomatic tensions between Persian, Ottoman, British and Russian Governments, at the outset of the First World War (Anglo-German war in the file), including the attack made at Urmia on Russian troops by Kurdish forces. The papers cover: Attitude of Persian towards Anglo-Ger...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
01 Sep 1914-01 Jan 1915
Extent:
1 volume (164 folios)

3. 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)

4. 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)

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/12/3417

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3417
Title:
Coll 28/21 ‘Persia; Azerbaijan; Persia-Russian & Persia-Turkish Frontier.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning affairs on the northeast frontiers of Persia [Iran], with a focus on Iranian Azerbaijan, sent to and from British Government officials based in Persia, including those at the British Consulate at Tabriz and the British Embassy in Tehran, and the Foreign Office in London. The c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Jul 1930-3 May 1946
Extent:
1 file (421 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3418

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3418
Title:
Coll 28/21(2) ‘Persia. Azerbaijan: Persia, Russian and Persia – Turkish Frontier.’
Scope & Content:
The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/21 ‘Persia; Azerbaijan; Persia-Russian & Persia-Turkish Frontier.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3417). It chiefly comprises copies of telegraphic correspondence exchanged between British officials in Tehran and Tabriz, and the Foreign Office in Lond...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 May 1946-15 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (377 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3426

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3426
Title:
Coll 28/29 ‘Persia. Russia. Russian Refugees in Persia.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers collected in response to an influx of refugees arriving in the northern provinces of Persia [Iran] from Soviet Russia, reaching a peak during 1932 and 1933, as a result of a chronic famine affecting parts of southern Russia. Extracts from consular diaries and intelligen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Aug 1931-17 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (204 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3457

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3457
Title:
Coll 28/52 ‘Persia. Russian agents & Anti-British Indians in’
Scope & Content:
Reports from British officials in Persia [Iran] reporting on: the activities of alleged Russian intelligence agents operating in Persia; the dissemination of Soviet communist propaganda in Persia; the Persian authorities’ attempts to uncover and root out suspected Russian intelligence agents; th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1932-5 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3524

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3524
Title:
Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’
Scope & Content:
Reports and correspondence concerning the internal situation in Azerbaijan and Tabriz during the region’s occupation by Soviet military forces, part of the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia [Iran] in the Second World War. The file chiefly comprises reports, submitted on a monthly (and later fort...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1941-6 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 file (615 folios)