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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968 Level [41] Item

1. IOR/L/PS/5/270, ff 361-365

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/270, ff 361-365
Title:
Zanzibar Affairs: The Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of a political despatch and enclosures from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 99 of 1872, dated 10 May 1872. The enclosures date from 25 August 1871 to 6 April 1872 and concern the capture and destruction by HMS Petere...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1872
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/155/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/155/2
Title:
File 3208/1908 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: Fuwairat piracy case’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to an incident taking place at Fuwairat, Qatar, in October 1909, in which a Persian vessel bound for Bahrain carrying a cargo of goats and firewood, was alleged by its nakhuda to have been deliberately scuppered on rocks by the inhabitants of Fuwairat, and the cargo then ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1912
Extent:

29 folios

3. IOR/L/PS/10/190/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/190/1
Title:
File 21/1911 Pt 1 'Aden Protectorate:- Italian & French recruitment of Arabs.'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the recruitment by the governments of Italy and France of natives of the British protectorate of Aden for military and colonial policing purposes. The main correspondents are the Political Resident, Aden; the Viceroy of India; and senior officials of the Foreign Office, the I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Mar 1905-13 Feb 1917
Extent:

1 item

4. IOR/L/PS/10/302/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/1
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/301), 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 and French
Date Range:
16 Mar 1914-25 Nov 1915
Extent:

1 part (184 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/302/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/2
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 4 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to claims for exploratory oil licenses in Ottoman Turkey (including the vilayets of Baghdad, Mosul and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and Syria and Nejd). Principal correspondents include: the solicitors Treherne, Higgins and Company, who represent the oil explor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Apr 1914-15 Sep 1914
Extent:

1 part (87 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/302/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/3
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’
Scope & Content:
A chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’, Part 5 comprises correspondence following the annulment of the 19 March 1914 agreement on oil concessions in Mesopotamia, which discusses the wider implications of the war on oil concessions in Turkey, and antic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1914-23 Aug 1917
Extent:

1 part (29 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/327/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/327/1
Title:
File 80/1913 Pt 3 'Persia: Telegraphs'
Scope & Content:
Part 3 contains minutes and correspondence regarding the reconstruction of the Bushire - Shiraz and Borasjin [Borazjan, Iran] - Bundur Rig [Bandar Rig, Iran] telegraph lines, and the question of claiming the cost from the Persian Government. The principal correspondents are the Persian Ministe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1920-20 Apr 1921
Extent:
1 item (35 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/327/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/327/2
Title:
File 80/1913 Pt 4 'Persia: Telegraphs'
Scope & Content:
Part 4 contains minutes and correspondence regarding the telegraph lines in Persia, including the planned cession to Russia of the line Tehran - Khanikin [Khanaqin, Iraq], and the disposal of the same line between Kerind [Kūh Kerind, Iran] and Khanaqin. The principal correspondents are the Pers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Feb 1924-2 Apr 1931
Extent:
1 item (152 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/547/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/547/2
Title:
File 1093/1915 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- Proposed revival of British Consulate at Basra. Portuguese interests in Iraq’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning the proposed re-appointment of a British Consul at Basra, and how the new post should be funded. Subjects covered include: whether the Consul at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] could also be appointed Consul at Basra (the two places being in close geographica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1922-20 Jun 1929
Extent:

1 item (164 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/557/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/557/2
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’
Scope & Content:
The item comprises correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration in territories that were part of the Ottoman Empire prior to the First World War. The item includes: reports on exploratory drilling being undertaken by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) at Naft Khana [Nafţ Khānah],...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1919-20 May 1924
Extent:

1 item (242 folios)