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1. IOR/L/PS/10/911

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/911
Title:
File 4917/1920 'MESOPOTAMIA: MANDATE [AND PALESTINE]'
Scope & Content:
The volume includes correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters, minutes, draft mandates and conventions. The correspondence is mainly about the British Mandate for Palestine and Mesopotamia, and the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon. British and French officials exchanged draft copies o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Jun 1920-31 Dec 1924
Extent:

1 volume (377 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2081

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2081
Title:
Coll 6/15 'Syria: Administration. Question of offer of throne to King Feisal of Iraq.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the administration of Syria and the possibility of the French Government installing a King of Syria. The file mostly contains copies of Colonial Office and Foreign Office correspondence, much of which consists of copies of the minutes, memoranda and correspondence of the Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Jun 1928-15 Dec 1939
Extent:
1 file (247 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2083

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2083
Title:
Coll 6/17 'Syria: Political situation in Syria'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to changes to the administration of French-ruled Syria during the 1930s and early to mid-1940s. The file consists of copies of received Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Nov 1931-4 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (88 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2166
Title:
Coll 6/93 'Syria – Situation in after the capitulation of France 1940: Allied operations against :–'
Scope & Content:
This file documents British policy and Allied operations regarding Syria and Lebanon, following the defeat of France in June 1940. It documents preparations for a British-Free French military campaign in Syria [Operation Exporter] and concludes with correspondence regarding armistice terms, foll...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Jun 1940-28 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (500 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2168
Title:
Coll 6/93(2) 'SYRIA: Situation in – after capitulation of France, 1940. Incl. Proclamation of Independence.'
Scope & Content:
Following on from an earlier file (IOR/L/PS/12/2166), this file concerns British policy relating to Syria, following the success of the British-Free French military campaign in Syria [Operation Exporter]. (The abbreviation 'Incl.' in the title stands for 'Including'). The date range of this fil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Jul 1941-12 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (311 folios)

6. Mss Eur F112/287

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/287
Title:
Papers Relating to the League of Nations Mandates
Scope & Content:
File containing correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the creation of the League of Nations mandates, by which the administration of former colonies of Germany and the Ottoman Empire [Turkey] was granted variously to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Japan. Much of the file i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jan 1919-15 Jan 1922
Extent:
1 file (323 folios)

7. Mss Eur F112/288

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/288
Title:
The Establishment of Mandates, Principally: Mesopotamia, Palestine and Syria
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the establishment of mandates which were drawn up under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations (signed on 28 June 1919 as part of the Treaty of Versailles that officially ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers). The papers ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jul 1920-Dec 1920
Extent:

1 file (234 folios)