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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language French Name Imperial Government of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918

1. IOR/L/PS/10/68

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/68
Title:
File 57/1905 ‘Arabia: - Situation in Yemen (1905-11). Arab revolt against Turks. Imam of Sanaa’s letter to the King. Fighting in Yemen 1911. Agreement between the Turks & the Imam’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly by British Consular officials, reporting on the political situation in Yemen between 1905 and 1911. Their correspondence contains numerous military reports about Turkish troop and transport movements, the progress of the conflict between Turkis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1905-1912
Extent:
1 volume (342 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/193
Title:
File 520/1911 'Arabia:- Arms Traffic in the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns arms traffic by sea into Yemen in the course of the rebellion there against Turkish rule. The principal correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office, the India Office, and the Admiralty; the Viceroy of India (Lord Hardinge); and diplomatic representatives of the G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Feb 1911-20 Oct 1911
Extent:
1 file (167 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/196/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/196/4
Title:
File 4327/1911 Part 4 'Turco-Italian War: Red Sea Blockade'
Scope & Content:
Part four consists of correspondence relating to an Italian blockade of parts of the Red Sea coast of present-day Saudi Arabia. Several matters are covered by the correspondence: the classification of Turkish grain ships as contraband of war by the Italians; the Italian blockade of Hodeidah [Ḥud...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Oct 1911-Mar 1912
Extent:
1 item (70 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/300
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, produced in response to the prospect of an oil company backed by German capital taking control of future oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and the implications that such concessions might have on the Anglo-Persian Oi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Jul 1904-4 Sep 1913
Extent:

1 volume (412 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/463

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/463
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 2 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning events in Mesopotamia and in the Persian Gulf, leading up to and immediately after the outbreak of war between Great Britain and Turkey. The file is a chronological continuation of File 3136/1914 Pt 1 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’ (IOR/L/PS/10/462...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Oct 1914-8 Dec 1914
Extent:
1 volume (248 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/472

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/472
Title:
File 3443/1914 Pt 1 'German War: Turkish and German intrigues in India'
Scope & Content:
Thevolume contains correspondence regarding the movements and activities ofPan-Islamic activists in India, Afghanistan and North Africa during the firstyear of the First World War. The correspondence is particularly concerned withpossible German and Ottoman support for the activists in carrying ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jun 1914-3 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 volume (175 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/473

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/473
Title:
File 3443/1914 Pt 2 'German War: German emissaries to Afghanistan'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the Persian Campaign of the First World War and the movements and activities of the Central Powers in Persia [Iran] between June and November 1915. The correspondence is particularly concerned with German and Ottoman attempts to infiltrate Afghanistan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Jun 1915-21 Nov 1915
Extent:
1 volume (238 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/474

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/474
Title:
File 3443/1914 Pt 3 'German War: Afghanistan and Persia; German agents; British troops in East Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the Persian Campaign of the First World War and the movements and activities of the Central Powers in Persia [Iran] between November 1915 and April 1916. The correspondence is particularly concerned with German and Ottoman attempts to infiltrate Afgha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Nov 1915-5 Jun 1916
Extent:
1 volume (167 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/670

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/670
Title:
File 1323/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters and telegrams related to the temporary administration of Baghdad Vilayet [province] and the question of the type of postage stamps to be used for the civil post office at Baghdad during the British occupation. The correspondence is partic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
26 Mar 1915-18 Dec 1918
Extent:
1 volume (274 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/671

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/671
Title:
File 1323/1917 Pt 2-5 ‘Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters, memoranda and telegrams related to the supply of overprinted stamps of Mesopotamia/Iraq. The main issues discussed in the volume are the following: The question of whether to continue using the overprinted Turkish stamps after the declar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Oct 1917-2 Mar 1921
Extent:
1 volume (344 folios)