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1. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3297

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3297
Title:
‘WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. “D”. Volume 45 Part I (From 1st to 15th April 1918.)’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 1 and 15 April 1918. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1918-15 Apr 1918
Extent:

1 item (262 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/479

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/479
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 2 'German War: Persian neutrality'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns diplomatic tensions between Persian, Ottoman, Russian and British Governments, at the outset of the First World War (Anglo-German war in the file). The main focus is the Russian occupation of Tabriz and Persian Azerbaijan, ending with Persia's neutrality in 1914. The volume ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4 Nov 1914-5 Mar 1915
Extent:
1 volume (170 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/481

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/481
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 4 'German War: Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in Persia and in the Eastern territories of the Ottoman Empire (Iraq), during the First World War. The main focus is the Turkish action in Persia, and the British intrigues to maintain control over Persia, preventing the country from entering the war and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, German, and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
27 Jan 1915-13 May 1915
Extent:
1 volume (333 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/653

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/653
Title:
File 469/1917 Pt 2 'Persia: Bakhtiari affairs. Bakhtiari gendarmerie'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers (mainly correspondence and India Office minute papers) relating to the Bakhtiari [Baḵtīārī] tribe and Bakhtiari territory in Persia [Iran]. The papers largely concern the proposal to raise a force of gendarmerie, or Levy Corps, under British officers in the Bakhtiari t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Oct 1916-28 Apr 1921
Extent:
1 volume (264 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3448

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3448
Title:
Coll 28/44 ‘Persia; Internal; Fars affairs, Shiraz Situation including Papers on Isfahan Plot.’
Scope & Content:
Papers and reports concerning a rebellion against the Persian Government by the country’s southern tribes (including the Qashqai and Bakhtiari) in the provinces of Isfahan and Fars in August 1946. The papers include: correspondence between the British Ambassador at Tehran, John Haller Le Rougete...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Sep 1946-29 Jan 1949
Extent:
1 file (153 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3529

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3529
Title:
Coll 28/116 ‘Persia (Iran). Isfahan – Consular situation reports’
Scope & Content:
Fortnightly consular diaries (monthly from November 1945), six-monthly consular reports, and correspondence, submitted by HM Consul at Isfahan, Charles Alexander Gault, who was superseded in 1946 by John William Wall. The papers, which cover much of the Second World War, the Anglo-Soviet occupat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 May 1942-31 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (431 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/68

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/68
Title:
Vol 89 Translation Book, 1835 (native letters inward)
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of substances of, and translations of, native letters (i.e. correspondence in Arabic or Persian) sent to the British Resident in the Persian Gulf. The majority of these are from native agents serving the British in the Gulf at Bahrein [Bahrain], Muscat, Sharjah, Shiraz, Linga...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1835-25 Dec 1835
Extent:
1 volume (109 folios)

8. Mss Eur F112/400

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/400
Title:
‘PERSIA. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, NOTABLES, MERCHANTS, AND CLERGY, COMPILED BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL H. PICOT, Military Attaché at Teheran.’
Scope & Content:
Printed collection of biographical notices, as well as comments on élite dynasties and tribes of Persia [Iran], written over a period of twelve months and completed in December 1897 by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot (Military Attaché, Teheran [Tehran]), then Acting Oriental Secretary in H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1897-8 Jul 1898
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)

9. Mss Eur F126/53

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/53
Title:
Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick John Goldsmid on the route of the proposed telegraph line from Isfahan to Gwadar
Scope & Content:
The report No. 27 of 1866, dated 17 March 1866, addresses the question of a complete Land Line of Telegraph and submits to government propositions on the question based on Goldsmid's recent travels. There are numerous enclosures to the report: Report by Major Robert Murdoch Smith, 7 March 1866...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1866-02 May 1866
Extent:

1 file (24 folios)

10. Photo 430/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/8
Title:
'South Persia'. Photographer: Lt. A. A. Crookshank (Curzon Collection)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of South Persia and the Persian Gulf coastline. The photos are presented initially by location (Muscat, Jask, Bandar Abbás, Niríz, Yezd, Isfahan to Shiráz Road, Pasargadae, Naksh-i-Rustam, Naksh-i-Rajab, Persepolis, Shir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1900-15 Apr 1902
Extent:
119 b&w photographs bound into a maroon and red half leather album