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171. 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)

172. 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)

173. IOR/L/PS/12/3445

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3445
Title:
Coll 28/42 ‘Persia. Motor-car Registration in East Persia. Issue of Driving Licenses and Visas to British & Persian subjects; Indian lorry drivers in Persia.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning the issue of licenses and visas for Persian and Indian lorry drivers operating between Duzdap [Zahedan] in the East Persian province of Sistan, and Nok Kundi in British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan]. The licenses were issued by the Governments of Persia [Iran] and India...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
21 Dec 1931-10 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

174. IOR/L/PS/12/3547

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3547
Title:
Coll 28/131 ‘Persia. Proposed withdrawal of Allied forces from Persia (Including publicity re proposals)’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the withdrawal of Allied (British, Soviet and United States) troops from Persia [Iran] at the end of the Second World War, according to the terms set out in the Anglo-Soviet-Iranian Treaty of Alliance (1942). The correspondence covers: the British Amba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1945-29 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 file (369 folios)

175. IOR/L/PS/18/B105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B105
Title:
Italian proceedings on the African coast of the Red Sea
Scope & Content:
The document, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, discusses the following: the actual course of events at Assab and in the neighbourhood since May 1880; correspondence which has passed in the same period between the British, Italian and Egyptian Governments, and between the Political and Secret...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Sep 1881
Extent:

16 folios

176. IOR/L/PS/18/C158

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C158
Title:
Memorandum by the Chief of Imperial General Staff and a Minute by Edmund George Barrow and John Evelyn Shuckburgh, on the Situation in Southern Persia
Scope & Content:
This file concerns attacks made against the South Persian Rifles [South Persia Rifles] by members of Persian tribes at Kazerun and Dashtistan [Dashtestan] (also spelled as 'Dasht-i-Arjun' and 'Dashtarjin' in the file), and the possibility of sending troops from Bushire. The file consists of a m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Dec 1916-27 Dec 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

177. IOR/L/PS/18/C161

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C161
Title:
Recent events in Persia.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report, written by Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Political Secretary, India Office, which provides the British perspective on recent events in Persia, from mid-1916 to early 1917. The report is divided into sections using headings, which cover the following locations: Tehran, Ispah...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1917
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

178. IOR/L/PS/18/C162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C162
Title:
Sir Percy Sykes's Position. Viceroy's Telegram of 28 February 1917. Note by Political Secretary, India Office.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a note which concerns Sir Percy Sykes's position as commander of the South Persian Rifles [South Persia Rifles]. The note, written by the Secretary to the Political Department, India Office [Sir Arthur Hirtzel], is written in response to a telegram, dated 28 February 1917 a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Mar 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

179. IOR/L/PS/18/C164

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C164
Title:
British Interests in Persia and the South Persia Military Police.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report which is dated 20 June 1916 and is attributed to Richard Alexander Steel, Military Attaché of the Indian Army. The report concerns British interests in Persia and the recent formation of the South Persia Military Police (abbreviated to SPMP in this file and later k...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 file (29 folios)

180. IOR/L/PS/20/C74

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C74
Title:
PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.
Scope & Content:
Printed report published by the Intelligence Department of the Admiralty, 1903. The report includes advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance, under-water defences. Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf Report, 1898. There a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
56 folios