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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name British Consul, Khorramshahr, 1880-1968 Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/133
Title:
File 345/1908 Pt 2 'Mohammerah: situation. Sheikh's dispute with the Vali of Basra. decoration for Sheikh. renewed assurances to Sheikh.'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence including telegrams, hand written letters and printed enclosures, discusses an attack by a Turkish gun-boat on a village - Zain, belonging to the Shaikh of Mohammerah - which lay on the Turkish bank of the Shatt al-Arab waterway. The correspondence outlines the circumstances that ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1915
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/366

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/366
Title:
File 1283/1913 Pt 1-2 ‘Persian Gulf: German Competition’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with growing German competition to British trade in the Persian Gulf, and discussions around possible responses from the British authorities to protect Britain's trade and geopolitical interests. In particular, it is concerned with the joint workings of the Hamburg-America ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 May 1912-1 Jun 1916
Extent:
1 volume (334 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/379

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/379
Title:
File 1569/1913 Trans-Persian Railway
Scope & Content:
This volume contains multiple files with correspondence, reports, hand written memos, financial arrangements, and maps on the proposed Trans-Persian Railway. Most letters pertain to the charting of possible routes for the proposed railway in relation to British interests vis-à-vis the Russian Em...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1911-11 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (326 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/547

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/547
Title:
File 1093/1915 ‘Basra & Mohammerah Consulates’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts. Part 1 contains correspondence and papers relating to appointments made at the British Consulate at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] (ff 5-74). Part 2 contains correspondence and papers concerning the re-opening and associated costs of a British Consulate at Basra (ff 76...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1929
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/555
Title:
Ext 5000/41(5) 'PERSIAN SITUATION: MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, on a wide variety of miscellaneous topics which are ordered in the volume by chronology. Topics include: lend-lease for Iraq security of roads and attacks from brigands supplies of wheat and food appointments to th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Apr 1942-11 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 volume (229 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/1156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1156
Title:
Ext 5000/46(1) ‘Persian Situation: Miscellaneous Reports’
Scope & Content:
The file contains reports, predominantly in the form of telegrams, by British diplomatic and consular staff on political and social developments in Persia; the content of the reports reflect British Government interests during the Iran-Azerbaijan Crisis of 1946. The reports cover developments wi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 May 1946-10 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (596 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3490B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3490B
Title:
Coll 28/85S (1) ‘Persia; Abadan and S.W. Persian Oilfields; A.I.O.C. Indian Employees’
Scope & Content:
The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/85S (1) ‘Persia. Abadan and S. W. Persian oilfields; Protection of British interests.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3490A). It consists chiefly of extracts of quarterly reports, prepared by HM Consul-General at Khorramshahr, on affairs at the Anglo-Iran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May 1948-4 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3528A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3528A
Title:
Coll 28/115 ‘Persia [Iran]; Khorramshahr – intelligence summaries.’
Scope & Content:
Typewritten fortnightly intelligence summaries describing events in the district of Khorramshahr, Persia [Iran], produced by the British Consul at Khorramshahr (Frederick Charles Leslie Chauncy; Andrew Charles Stewart; Vere William Digby Willoughby). The diaries cover: the movements of foreign s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1942-17 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (270 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3528B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3528B
Title:
Coll 28/115 ‘Persia. Khorramshahr – intelligence summaries.’
Scope & Content:
Typewritten monthly intelligence summaries describing events in the district of Khorramshahr, Persia [Iran], produced by the British Consul at Khorramshahr, Vere William Digby Willoughby. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/115 ‘Persia [Iran]; Khorramshahr – intelligence s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1947-15 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3849

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3849
Title:
Coll 30/120 'Development of the Port of Bander Shahpur & Khorramshahr.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns development, facilities, and customs at the Iranian ports of Bandar Shahpur (also referred to as Bander Shahpur) and Khorramshahr. The papers include reports from the British Consul, Khuzistan, and the British Vice-Consul, Khorramshahr, statistics of shipping, and a letter of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1933-3 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)