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1. IOR/L/PS/10/56

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/56
Title:
File 2764/1904 Pt 1 'Baghdad Railway: general negotiations 1904-07.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1903-1907. The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1903-1907
Extent:

1 volume (405 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/242
Title:
File 1912/897 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf. British post offices [also in Turkish Arabia]’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of printed correspondence, typewritten correspondence, handwritten notes and other papers. These papers relate to the operation of British and Turkish post offices in Turkish Arabia (Iraq), and British and Persian post offices in Persia and the ports and towns of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1911-1914
Extent:
1 volume (227 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/333

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/333
Title:
File 342/1913 'Mesopotamia: Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Co; mail contract'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains memoranda, correspondence, telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding a contract between the India Office and the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company for mail service and commercial transports on the River Tigris between Baghdad and Basra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Feb 1904-30 Jun 1919
Extent:
1 volume (138 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/532

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/532
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 1 ‘German War:- Turkey. Prisoners’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to British prisoners of war in Baghdad, detained in the wake of the commencement of hostilities between Britain and Turkey in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in November 1914. The papers cover: the status of British subjects including British Indians in Baghdad; reports of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Dec 1914-31 Dec 1915
Extent:
1 volume (217 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/534

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/534
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 4 ‘German War; Turkey; Baghdad prisoners &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning British women and children detained by Turkish authorities in Baghdad as prisoners of war, and an agreement for their exchange (brokered by the United States Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul]) for Turkish officials and their families captured in Amara during the British i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Jan 1916-5 Jan 1917
Extent:

1 volume (239 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/566

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/566
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 3 ‘Mesopotamia: trade with Baghdad’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to trade between Baghdad and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Great Britain, in the wake of Britain’s military invasion and occupation of Mesopotamia during the First World War. Subjects covered include: the resumption of trade between Britain and Baghdad; enquiries made to the Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Mar 1917-31 Dec 1917
Extent:

1 volume (187 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/567

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/567
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 4 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with Baghdad & Export of wool’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning the export of wool from Baghdad in Mesopotamia [Iraq] during Britain’s military occupation of the country in the First World War. Subjects covered include: enquiries from commercial firms seeking to export wool from Mesopotamia; shipping arrangements for the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Dec 1916-10 Aug 1918
Extent:

1 volume (243 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/570

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/570
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 7 ‘Mesopotamia; Baghdad Trade &c (Miscellaneous)’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning foreign trade in Baghdad and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq] after Britain’s military invasion during the First World War. The papers cover: various enquiries from businesses in England and elsewhere (the Netherlands, the United States of America) about trade wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1918-1919
Extent:

1 volume (316 folios)