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036-000544688 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IOR/L/PS/10/1313

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1313
Title:
File 948/1931 'Iraq: Intelligence Reports; Operations against Sheikh of Barzan'
Scope & Content:
The volume containsIntelligence Reports from the British Residency in Baghdad (which became theBritish Legation in October 1932 and the British Embassy in November 1932),issued at two-week intervals from 7 January 1931 to 28 November 1932. Theylargely relate to: the political situation in Iraq; ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1931-19 Apr 1933
Extent:
1 volume (403 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/406

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/406
Title:
File 3317/1913 'Persia: Lingah; vice-consulate'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the operations and official status of the British Vice-Consulate at Lingah. The papers primarily discuss the downgrading and decommissioning of the Vice-Consulate and the transfer of its staff and operations to Bandar Abbas or Bahrain. The documents are prima...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1921
Extent:
1 volume (189 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/87

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/87
Title:
File 3131/1905 'Mesopotamia:- Irrigation.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, a memorandum, notes and reports on a scheme devised by Sir William Willcocks for irrigation in Mesopotamia. It also includes a number of reports about the effect of the Baghdad railway both on relations with Persia and on the defence of India. I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1910
Extent:
1 volume (214 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/938

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/938
Title:
File 7251/1920 Pt 4-5 Arabia
Scope & Content:
This volume contains parts 4 and 5 of the subject 'Arabia' as follows: Part 4, IOR/L/PS/10/938/1, 'Arabia: [Nejd] Question of channel of communication between H. M. Govt & Ibn Saud' (folios 4-208) Part 5, 'Arabia: Political Situation, the Turkish Peace Treaty and the future political status ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922-1927
Extent:
1 volume (219 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1097

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1097
Title:
File 4282/1923 ‘Persia: Annual Reports’
Scope & Content:
Annual administration reports regarding Persia [Iran]. The reports provide a summary record of the main events and developments in Persia during the financial years of 1910 (ff 324-346), 1922 (ff 290-322), 1923 (ff 253-287), 1926 (ff 214-245), 1927 (ff 178-213), 1928 (ff 136-177), 1929 (ff 98-132...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Feb 1911-5 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 volume (350 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/1127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1127
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 7, 8, 9 ‘Hejaz-Nejd Situation’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises three parts (numbered 7, 8 and 9), each comprising correspondence and papers relating to the invasion of Hejaz by Wahhabi troops under the Sultan of Najd ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd. Part 7 covers the fall of Medina and Jeddah, the abdication of King...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1927
Extent:

1 volume (425 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/450

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/450
Title:
File 1187/1914 Pt 1 'Persia - Policy Anglo-Russian relations'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to Russian policy, British policy, and Anglo-Russian relations, in Persia [Iran] in 1914. The papers mostly consist of copies of correspondence between Sir Edward Grey, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Sir Walter Beaupre Townley, British ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Jan 1914-2 Oct 1914
Extent:

1 volume (178 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/647

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/647
Title:
File 234/1917 'Muscat trade reports. (1911-1924)'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of the annual trade report on the trade and commerce of Muscat [Muscat and Oman] for the years 1911-12 to 1923-24 inclusive (except 1917-18 and 1920-21). The reports were prepared by the Political Agent and HBM's Consul, Muscat, and forwarded to the Government of India...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1912-25 Mar 1925
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/302

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 3-5 ‘Asiatic Turkey: Oil Concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 3, 4, and 5 of the subject ‘Asiatic Turkey: Oil Concessions’. Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/302/1) concerns ongoing negotiations over the Turkish Petroleum Company’s oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad. Part 4 (IOR/L/PS/10/302/2) concerns competin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Mar 1914-4 Jul 1917
Extent:
1 volume (302 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/155
Title:
File 3208/1908 Pt 1-2 ‘Persian Gulf: Piracy’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts, both of which contain correspondence relating to breaches of maritime law, referred to by British officials as cases of piracy: part 1, relating to incidents of shipwrecking occurring in 1909 and 1912 at Fuwairah, Qatar, and discussion amongst British officials ov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1903-2 Oct 1912
Extent:

1 volume (196 folios)