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1. IOR/L/PS/5/415, ff 3-267

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/415, ff 3-267
Title:
‘Affairs of Aden’
Scope & Content:
Enclosures no. 2-93 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Governmentof Bombay, dated 30 November 1842. The enclosures are dated 20 September-30November 1842. The enclosures consist of copies ofcorrespondence relating to affairs in Aden, including: Withdrawal of the British stipend paid to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1842
Extent:
1 item (265 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/472, f 412

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/472, f 412
Title:
Rough sketch showing the relative positions of the new chain of Forts near Asterabad
Scope & Content:
The map shows the area around Asterabad [Gorgon] and the positions of newly constructed forts, intended for the defence of the province against Turkoman incursions. The map was drawn by W[illia]m Taylour Thompson, HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1851
Extent:
1 map sheet

3. IOR/L/PS/5/478, ff 3-9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/478, ff 3-9
Title:
Karrack Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 50 of 1853, dated 30 August 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-4 and are dated 10 June-19 July 1853. The papers relate to fortifications on t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1853
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/495, ff 393-479

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/495, ff 393-479
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 43 of 1858, dated 23 April 1858. The enclosures are numbered 3-21 and are dated 24 February-22 April 1858. The papers relate to affairs in Aden ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1858
Extent:
1 item (87 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/496, ff 423-439

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/496, ff 423-439
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 83 of 1858, dated 19 June 1858. The enclosures are numbered 3-7 and are dated 31 May-9 June 1858. The papers relate to affairs in Aden, includin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 June 1858
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/7/7, ff 275-276

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/7/7, ff 275-276
Title:
Secret No. 6 of 1876, Repairs to the Fortat Menamah
Scope & Content:
This item consists of a copy of a Secret Letter from the Government of India’s Foreign Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 6 of 1876, dated 21 January 1876, submitting a copy of a letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf dated 4 December 1875. The letter reports t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1876
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/616

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/616
Title:
File 22/3 SULTAN bin SAQR, SHAIKH OF SHARJAH - Questions Affecting Him
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly between British officials in the Persian Gulf, discussing the actions of Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr, the Ruler of Sharjah and his relations with neighbouring Arab Chiefs of the Trucial Coast, 1933 to 1939. There is also a small amount of correspondence about ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1933-15 Jun 1950
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)

8. Photo 1253/1(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(14)
Title:
A watchtower guarding a street of foreign embassies in central Kabul. For the British army these improvised fortifications are called ‘sangars’, although the term is Dari for ‘barricade’ and is one of the few words the British brought home from the Anglo-Afghan Wars. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of a watchtower in the evening. 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 b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item