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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Women Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IOR/L/PS/5/442, ff 410-438

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/442, ff 410-438
Title:
Affairs in Scinde
Scope & Content:
Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 37 of 1846, dated 1 April 1846. The enclosures are dated and contain correspondence relating to: the Government of Bombay’s remittance of specie to the Government of Scinde [Sindh] for ten lac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1846
Extent:
1 item (29 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/625

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/625
Title:
File 3816/1916 'Persia. As to allowing English ladies to proceed to Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, and India Office Political and Secret Department papers, mainly relating to various individuals seeking permission to travel to Persia [Iran] from England. These individuals are largely the wives of British officials and employees in Persia wishing to join the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1916-10 Oct 1921
Extent:
1 volume (269 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/821/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/821/6
Title:
File 2023/1919 Pt 6 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: Proceedings of BASRA Divisional Council, Council of Notables’
Scope & Content:
This item comprises papers relating to proceedings of the Divisional Council and Council of Notables in the province of Basra [also written as Basrah], as well as observations on circumstances relating to the attempted Revolution of 1920, in Mesopotamia [Iraq] under the British colonial administr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1919-17 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 item (60 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3807

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3807
Title:
Coll 30/88 'Question of residence of European women on the Trucial Coast.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the presence of European women in certain parts of the Persian Gulf, and fears over the effects of their interaction with local communities. Folios 19-32 relate to the concern of British officials that Imperial Airways passengers at Shargah [Sharjah] had been going into the to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1933-6 Sep 1934
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/4252

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4252
Title:
Coll 37/18 'Travellers. Persian Gulf, Arab States, Arabia: Lady Dorothy Mills: Mrs Howard Clitty: Mrs M. A. Cairnes: Miss Palmer Smith: Mrs Greenway: Lady Qadir & Miss Clements.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to seven different applications to visit the Persian Gulf (mainly Kuwait, Yemen and Bahrain), which were submitted during the period 1931-35 by the following: Mrs Winifred J Howard-Clitty, Dorothy Mills, Mrs Margaret Maria...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1931-4 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 file (82 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/592

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/592
Title:
‘19/4 LADY DOROTHY MILLS AND OTHERS’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns a proposed and actual visits to the Persian Gulf by the writer Lady Dorothy Mills to countries in the Middle East in 1932 for the purpose of collecting suitable material for her literary work, with permission granted to her to travel to Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait, but not the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1932-3 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/594

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/594
Title:
'19/6 MRS. HOWARD CHITTER'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to the attempted visit to Bahrain and Kuwait by Winifred Howard-Clitty, a writer of children’s books, in the winter of 1933/34. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1933-3 May 1934
Extent:
1 file (70 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/596

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/596
Title:
‘19/9 Mlle. CORBIAU’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns finding a temporary home in Bahrain for a female Belgian artist named Mademoiselle Corbiau who wishes to visit there to earn money by painting portraits. The correspondents in the file include: Ernest Vincent Packer, Petroleum Concession Limited, Bahrain; Cornelius James Pelly,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jul 1945-19 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

9. WD1348

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1348
Title:
'From Calcutta to Bombay (by B. I. steamer).' By: Kate Toynbee (fl. 1879-80)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape views of locations along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, as well as at Aden and along the Red Sea coast. The watercolour drawings are rendered directly onto watercolour paper and captioned in ink, usually on the verso of the preceding...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1879-Jan 1880
Extent:
Album of 29 drawings of views along the Indian coast from Calcutta to Bombay, and of views in Bihar, Calcutta, Aden and Suez.