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1. IOR/L/PS/5/264, ff 331-332

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/264, ff 331-332
Title:
Proposed New Residency at Bushire
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 12 of 1870, dated 15 February 1870, expressing the opinion that the construction of a new residency building at Bushire [Bushehr], as proposed by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, is not ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Feb 1870
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/415, ff 388-431

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/415, ff 388-431
Title:
‘Affairs at Aden’
Scope & Content:
Enclosure nos. 2-17 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 30 December 1842. The enclosures are dated 16 November-30 December 1842. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Aden, primarily concerned with a significant campaign of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1842
Extent:
1 item (44 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/6/111, ff 111-123a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/111, ff 111-123a
Title:
Political No. 143 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of Papers Relating to the Transfer to Bussorah of the Depot at Maaghil, on the Euphrates
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 11 August 1873 and received by the India Office Political Department on 8 September 1873, forwarding copies of papers relating to the transfer to Bussora...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1873-8 Sep 1873
Extent:
1 item (18 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/6/560, Coll 14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/560, Coll 14
Title:
‘Zanzibar – Section of a Jail’
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 1 of February 1869, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of India ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jul 1868-4 Feb 1869
Extent:
1 item (17 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/154

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/154
Title:
File 1/A/33 I Site for Residency at Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the proposed transfer of the Persian Gulf Residency from Bushire to Bahrain, specifically the choice of a suitable site in Bahrain; the estimated costs involved; and the eventual selection of a site at Busaitin adjoining the Royal Air Force (RAF) landing ground on Muharraq Isla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1933-27 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 volume (253 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1631-1649

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1631-1649
Title:
File 18: Buildings and Works
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub-series mostly consists of files relating to the maintenance of, repairs to, and building works being carried out at, the Bahrain Political Agency building and compound. It includes files relating to the following: the move of the Post Office from inside the Political Agency build...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1950
Extent:
19 files (3,089 folios)

7. Photo 1253/1(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(8)
Title:
The future home of The Afghan Cash And Carry Superstore on the road between the foreign embassies and Kabul Airport. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon
Scope & Content:
A view through a shop window with teapots hanging overhead to a building site across the street. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, c...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1253/1(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(24)
Title:
The peripheries of the city of Kabul, especially to the north and east are endless building sites. Since most of the documentation concerning land title was lost during the war, much of this speculative and illegal construction is concerned more with establishing undisputable ‘facts on the ground’. Apartments and shops are, almost exclusively, unoccupied. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of building sites in the haze. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, chromogenic print on Fujicolor Crystal Archive / Photograph by...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1253/1(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(25)
Title:
A dumping ground for an abandoned Russian-era bomber that has now been incorporated into the car park of ‘Shamshad TV’, a new media company heavily supported by American money. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of an abandoned bomber, with a building site in the background. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, chromogenic print on Fujicolo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1253/1(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(38)
Title:
Yards supplying construction materials in Nawabadi Guzargah district of Kabul, overlooked by American-controlled electronic eavesdropping equipment on the summit of Kohe Asmai. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of construction materials with a hill and radio transmitters in the background. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, chromogenic p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item