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Coll 5/56 ‘Air Services in the Eastern Mediterranean’
Scope & Content:
The file predominantly consists of correspondence between HM Ambassador to Egypt (Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson) and the Foreign Office, with significant input from the Air Ministry. The subject matter is Britain's policy towards the development of civil aviation in Egypt; British policy being to...
Coll 6/18 'Arabia: Migration of Hejazis from Hejaz to Transjordan'
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This file is concerned with the migration of Hejazis from Hejaz to Transjordan. The file consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, which discuss rumours of disaffection among Hejazi tribesmen, and of their desertion from the Hejaz to Transjordan. The correspondenc...
Papers concerning affairs on the northeast frontiers of Persia [Iran], with a focus on Iranian Azerbaijan, sent to and from British Government officials based in Persia, including those at the British Consulate at Tabriz and the British Embassy in Tehran, and the Foreign Office in London. The c...
Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, maps and other papers relating to the establishment of a precise position of the frontier between Persia [Iran], British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], and Afghanistan, arising in response to the proposed transfer to Persian ownership of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] ...
Coll 28/29 ‘Persia. Russia. Russian Refugees in Persia.’
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Correspondence and papers collected in response to an influx of refugees arriving in the northern provinces of Persia [Iran] from Soviet Russia, reaching a peak during 1932 and 1933, as a result of a chronic famine affecting parts of southern Russia. Extracts from consular diaries and intelligen...
Coll 29/2(5) 'Public Works Department in the Persian Gulf: budget, etc; PWD staff serving in Gulf'
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The file concerns budget estimates for works to the buildings of the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf and of the agencies at Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between the Foreign Office, Government of India, Commonwealth Relations Office, ...
Coll 29/45(3B) 'Conditions of service of personnel serving in the Persian Gulf: Major F C L Chauncy'
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The file concerns the proposal to employ Frederick Charles Leslie Clauncy as Secretary of Bahrain Petroleum Company, which Clauncy refused. The file is composed of correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, the Commonwe...
Coll 29/45(3D) 'Conditions of service of personnel serving in the Persian Gulf: Major A C Stewart'
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The file concerns the recruitment of A C Stewart as Political Agent in Muscat, 1947, and correspondence regarding Stewart's salary requirements. The file is composed of correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Commonwealth Relations Office, the Political Agent in Musc...
‘Letter from Lt-Col Sir A.T. Wilson, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., C.M.G., D.S.O., Officiating Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, Simla.’
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The file contains a printed copy of a letter, sent by Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, Officiating Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Secretary to the Government of India, concerning the protection of the oil fields operated by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) in the Arab...
File 1356/1912 Pt 1 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the disputed Turco-Persian Frontier, particularly at Mohammerah, and the negotiations in Constantinople to attempt to settle it. The correspondence focuses on: the differences of opinion over the actual boundary at Mohammerah, including several maps demonstrating these diff...
