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1. IOR/L/PS/10/1247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1247
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 16 'Iraq-Nejd Frontier: Bon Voisinage agreement between Iraq & Nejd'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns negotiations over the signing of a friendship and bon voisinage [border co-operation] agreement between the Kingdom of Iraq, and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (usually referred to separately as Hejaz or Nejd), following the suppression by the Hejaz Government of the Akhwan [I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jan 1930-1 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (926 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2869

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2869
Title:
Coll 17/15(1) 'Perso-Iraq Relations: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers regarding relations between Persia [Iran] and Iraq. It primarily concerns the frontier delineated by the 1913-1914 Boundary Commission, in particular Persian claims over areas of the Shatt el-Arab, and rights to oilfields in the Naft Khana [Naft Khāna] or Khaniqin [Khā...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 May 1933-15 Mar 1935
Extent:
1 volume (476 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2870

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2870
Title:
Coll 17/15(2) 'Relations with Persia: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab'
Scope & Content:
This volume is a continuation of Collection 17/5, and contains papers regarding negotiations between Persia [Iran] and Iraq at the League of Nations in 1935, mediated by Italian delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi. The papers primarily consist of communications regarding the negotiations submitted to t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Feb 1935-15 Jan 1936
Extent:
1 volume (502 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2874

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2874
Title:
Coll 17/16(3) 'The Assyrian Question'
Scope & Content:
This volume is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2873, and contains papers regarding the Assyrian Crisis in Iraq during 1933-1934. The papers concern the proposal to settle Assyrians on land owned by Paraná Plantations Limited in Brazil, and documents the negotiations between the League of Nations a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Nov 1933-17 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 volume (598 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2875

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2875
Title:
Coll 17/16(4) 'Settlement of the Assyrians. Iraqi railways: agreement between HMG and Iraqi government'
Scope & Content:
This file is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2874. It contains papers regarding the Assyrian Crisis in Iraq during 1933-1935. The papers cover the proposed scheme to resettle the Assyrians of Iraq in British Guiana, on land to be purchased from the Rupununi Company. Following a report by General B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Mar 1935-11 Nov 1937
Extent:
1 file (250 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3803

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3803
Title:
Coll 30/86(2) 'Persia. Relations with Iraq. Shatt-el-Arab: Internationalisation of, and establishment of a Conservancy Board.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns negotiations over a convention to establish a Conservancy Board for the Shatt-el-Arab (also referred to as the Shatt-al-Arab) between the governments of Iraq, Iran (also referred to as Persia), and the United Kingdom. The convention had two main objects: (1) to provide for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Dec 1935-22 Apr 1937
Extent:
1 volume (468 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/127
Title:
'File 2/1 II IRAQ PROPAGANDA. (Absorption of Kuwait by Iraq). Relations etc.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, and confidential papers sent between British officials in the Gulf regarding Iraqi propaganda against Kuwait. Communications were made with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Pasha al-Said and the Ruler of Kuwait, in this regard. The cor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
20 Feb 1939-29 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 volume (154 folios)