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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Imperialism Level [40] File

1. 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)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/38

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/38
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Henjam affairs. Status of Henjam (Persian sovereignty). Persian Customs post. Henjam Telegraph Station dispute’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, papers and maps relating to the British Government’s telegraph station and the Persian Government’s customs house on the island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], questions of Persian sovereignty over the island, and the status of the island’s Arab inhabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1906
Extent:
1 volume (250 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/39
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: telegraphs. Henjam-Bunder Abbas-cable’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises notes, memoranda, copies of correspondence and other papers, relating to an agreement reached between the British and Persian Governments for the construction of a telegraph cable line between the telegraph station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1909
Extent:

1 volume (235 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/162
Title:
File 757/1909 'Persian Gulf:- Turkey and Turkish aggression (Occupation of Zakhnuniyeh Island. Attitude in piracy cases. Mudirs at Zubara, Odaid and Wakra) British Relations with Turkey in Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the Turkish occupation of Zakhnuniyah Island, the Ottoman attitude towards piracy cases, and the appointment of officials in Zubara, Odeid and Wakra. The discussion in the volume relates to the Turkish...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1911
Extent:
1 volume (245 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/243

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/243
Title:
File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of printed correspondence, handwritten correspondence, notes and other papers. This relates to the operation of British Indian post offices in Persia, and in particular in the region known as Arabistan [Ahvāz] by British officials. The file is a direct chronological c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1919
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/300
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, produced in response to the prospect of an oil company backed by German capital taking control of future oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and the implications that such concessions might have on the Anglo-Persian Oi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Jul 1904-4 Sep 1913
Extent:

1 volume (412 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/301

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/301
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/300), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1913-31 Mar 1914
Extent:

1 volume (148 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/318

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/318
Title:
File 4949/1912 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Abu Musa oxide’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the mining of red oxide on the island of Abū Mūsá in the Persian Gulf, before and after the First World War. The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox); F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Oct 1912-15 May 1923
Extent:
1 volume (277 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/336

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/336
Title:
File 364/1913 'Persia: situation in Fars (attack on 39th Central India Horse)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and reports relating to an attack by Bakhtiari tribesmen on a party of the 39th Central India Horse regiment and the killing of a British officer. The discussion in the volume relates to the implications for the Britis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1913
Extent:
1 volume (259 folios)