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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968 Level [40] File

1. IOR/H/550

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/550
Title:
Papers of Brigadier-General John Jacob (East India Company) Mainly Relating to the Anglo-Persian War (1856-1857), and the Aftermath
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, reports, memoranda, petitions, registers and other papers relating chiefly to events following the Anglo-Persian War (1856-1857) Armistice, signed in Paris 4 March 1857, notably the military withdrawal, diplomatic, political, logistical and security-related m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1856-Dec 1857
Extent:
1 volume (728 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/7/706

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/706
Title:
Collection 5/56: ‘Terms of employment of officers lent for service under other Governments. Selection of British officers to organise Ottoman Gendarmerie in Asiatic Turkey. Proposals abandoned.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between officials of the Foreign Office, War Office, India Office, and other diplomatic and administrative staff, and from the Turkish [Ottoman] Ambassador to Great Britain. It concerns proposals, subsequently suspended, for the appointment of British officers to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Apr 1913-4 Jul 1913
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/7/12604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/12604
Title:
Collection 269/345 ‘Miscellaneous Questions: Refusal to allow an officer to publish an article on “Mesopotamia” on grounds that he should not be allowed to propagate political views with which Govt. does not agree’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the refusal of the War Office to permit a British officer, Major Edward Johnson Ross, to publish an article in the Morning Post. The article discusses British policy in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Ross offers his views on the state of Mesopotamia, argues again...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1920-21 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/7/19337

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/19337
Title:
Collection 435/12 Part 1 ‘British Military Mission in Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and copies of correspondence relating to the recruitment of Indian Army officers to the British Military Mission in Iraq. Correspondents include the Foreign Office, War Office, Indian Office, Air Ministry, the British Embassy in Baghdad, Government of India and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1932-5 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (201 files)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/4
Title:
File 160/1903 'Persian Gulf: El Katr; appointment of Turkish Mudirs; question of Protectorate Treaty with El Katr'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains memoranda, copies of correspondence and telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding: Turkish claims over El Katr (Qatar), and the creation of Turkish administrative posts on the Qatari coast, with 'mudirs' (sub-governors) being assigned during 1903 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1902-16 Dec 1910
Extent:
1 volume (425 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/9
Title:
File 2410/1903 Pt 2 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Loans.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, telegrams, despatches, notes and memoranda relating to financial loans made by the Governments of Great Britain and Russia to the Government of Persia from 1901 to 1905; and potential loans to be made during 1906 and 1907. The volume discusses the failure o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Dec 1905-12 Feb 1908
Extent:

1 volume (527 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/10
Title:
File 2410/1903 Pt 3 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Loans.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, memoranda, notes and reports on the financial situation in Persia and the possibility of a joint Anglo-Russian loan to the Persian Government. The terms of the joint loan, including financial reforms which would have to be undertaken by the Persia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Jul 1907-3 Jul 1910
Extent:

1 volume (605 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/11
Title:
File 2410/1903 Pt 4 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Loans.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the financial situation in Persia and proposals put forward in 1910 and 1911 for loans to the Persian Government from private sources. Initial offers of loans to the Persian Government were made by Messrs M Samuel and Company, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a consortium le...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4 Jul 1910-12 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (511 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/23
Title:
File 351/1904 'Persian Gulf:- Erection of British flagstaffs at Musandam’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the erection (and subsequent abandonment) of flagstaffs at the head of the Persian Gulf, on the Maklab [Maqlab] Isthmus at Musandam (Musandam spelt with numerous variations throughout the file), Telegraph Island [Jazīrat al Maqlab]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1908
Extent:

1 volume (221 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/25

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/25
Title:
File 733/1904 Pt 1 'Muscat Arbitration. (1904-08).'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses a dispute between the British and French Government’s over the use of French flags on Muscat dhows and individuals dhow owners from Muscat claiming to be protégés of France owing to their vessels being registered as French. The two governments agreed in October 1904 for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903-1906
Extent:
1 volume (385 folios)

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