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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Civil Commissioner, Mesopotamia, 1917-1920 Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/MIL/5/790

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/790
Title:
'Railways and L. of C. [Lines of Communication] Policy Mesopotamia, Vol IV'
Scope & Content:
The file, marked secret, contains correspondence, notes, and maps regarding rail transportation in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the surrounding region after the First World War. The papers cover several matters, including: The construction, conversion, maintenance, and expansion of the railways in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1919-9 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 file (132 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/5/799

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/799
Title:
Mesopotamia: boundaries and disturbances at Deir-es-Zor: 1.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to boundaries and disturbances at Deir es-Zor [Deir ez-Zor, Syria]. The correspondence discusses the political situation in Mesopotamia, tribal uprisings against British occupation and implications for their punishment given various adjustments of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1919-2 Sep 1920
Extent:
1 file (336 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/368

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/368
Title:
File 1283/1913 Pts 4 & 5 'MESOPOT: - TRADE. TRADE CORPORATION MISSION. TRADE REPORT'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 4 and 5 of the subject ‘Mesopotamia: Trade’. Part 4 (IOR/L/PS/10/368/1) concerns trade missions to Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the Persian Gulf at the end of the First World War (1914-1918) by the British Trade Corporation and others. Part 5 (IOR/L/PS/10/368/2) concerns the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1920
Extent:
1 volume (264 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/390

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/390
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 9-10 'PERSIAN GULF AND ARABIA NEJD-HEJAZ AFFAIRS 1919'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains parts 9 and 10 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. It relates to the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hedjaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz], and Britain's policy towards both. It includes correspondenc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1918-13 Jan 1920
Extent:

1 volume (534 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/391

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/391
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 11-12 'PERSIAN GULF AND ARABIA NEJD-HEJAZ AFFAIRS 1920'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains parts 11 and 12 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. The volume concerns relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Ibn Saud] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz], and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1920-21 Oct 1920
Extent:
1 volume (562 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/531

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/531
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 4-6 'The War: Banking Arrangements in Iraq'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to banking arrangements, mainly in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. It consists of three parts: Part 4 contains papers relating to the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Mesopotamia, mostly concerning the Baghdad branch. Part 5 contains papers relating to the extension of banking f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1921
Extent:
1 volume (354 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/555
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration and applications for oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and in the frontier region between Mesopotamia and Persia [Iran] during and in the years following the First World War, when Mesopotamia was under British military occupation and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1918-18 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 volume (234 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/556

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/556
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 2 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia and Persia: oil; Sir J Cowan's deputation & Standard Oil Co.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to oil exploration and the acquisition of oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] (and to a lesser degree, Persia [Iran]) by oil companies. The companies involved are: the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC); the Shell Transport Company (STC, also referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:

1 volume (294 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/613

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/613
Title:
File 3360/1916 Pt 2 'Persian correspondence. (1917-18)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and memoranda, comprising miscellaneous correspondence on British involvement in Persia in the period 1917-18. Topics discussed include: A statement (ff 96-97) of South Persia Rifles policy for Southern Persia by the Inspector General...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1918
Extent:
1 volume (335 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/618

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/618
Title:
File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1918 PORTION'
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of printed reports, typed letters and other miscellaneous correspondence by British officials relating to the British occupation of Mesopotamia in the period September 1917 to March 1919 covering such topics as administration of justice, agriculture and land revenue, and tri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Sep 1917-9 Mar 1919
Extent:
1 volume (669 folios)