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1. IOR/L/PS/10/56

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/56
Title:
File 2764/1904 Pt 1 'Baghdad Railway: general negotiations 1904-07.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1903-1907. The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1903-1907
Extent:

1 volume (405 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/57
Title:
File 2764/1904 Pt 2 'Baghdad Railway: General negotiations 1908-10.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1903-1907. The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1910
Extent:
1 volume (391 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/188

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/188
Title:
File 3846/1910 'Mesopotamia: Baghdad affairs. Miscellaneous.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and memoranda, relating to the encroachment on the British Residency in Iraq by the Vali of Baghdad for the purpose of road widening. Also discussed is interference by the Turkish authorities with the property of Messrs Lynch Brothers a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1912
Extent:
1 volume (266 folios)

4. 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)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/333

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/333
Title:
File 342/1913 'Mesopotamia: Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Co; mail contract'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains memoranda, correspondence, telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding a contract between the India Office and the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company for mail service and commercial transports on the River Tigris between Baghdad and Basra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Feb 1904-30 Jun 1919
Extent:
1 volume (138 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/399

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/399
Title:
File 2977/1913 'Baghdad Railway: negotiations with Germany'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains diplomatic correspondence and agreements relating to the completion of sections of the Berlin to Baghdad Railway. In particular, the papers discuss the extension of the railway from Baghdad to Basra, and possibly its extension to the Persian Gulf at Shatt-al-Arab waterway. A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jun 1908-25 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (337 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/462

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/462
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 1 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning diplomatic tensions between the British and Ottoman Governments at the outset of the First World War, including social unrest and military/naval movements in Baghdad, Basra, and the Shatt al-Arab. The volume’s papers were produced prior to the Ottoman Ruler Sultan Mehmed V’s de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1914-25 Oct 1914
Extent:
1 volume (332 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/516

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/516
Title:
File 4097/1914 Pt 4-5 'Mesopotamia'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the assignment of new staff to the administration of Mesopotamia or Iraq upon its occupation during the First World War. The majority of the papers contain correspondence between the Offices of the Civil Commissioner in Cairo and Baghdad, and the Offices of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1916-25 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 file (335 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/517

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/517
Title:
File 4097/1914 Pt 6-7 'Mesopotamia'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the assignment of new staff to the administration of Mesopotamia or Iraq upon its occupation during the First World War. The majority of the papers contain correspondence between British civil commissioners in Cairo or Baghdad and discuss the possible assignm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1917-19 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 file (348 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/524

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/524
Title:
File 53/1915 Pt 2 German War: Turkey; the Caliphate and Pan-Arab movement
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the war with Germany and Turkey and implications for the Caliphate and the pan-Arab movement. The discussion in the volume relates specifically to the view of the Government of India on Sir Henry Arthur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1916
Extent:
1 volume (218 folios)