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1. IOR/L/PS/10/339

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/339
Title:
File 451/1913 Pt 1-2 'Koweit and Bahrein: Oil Deposits. Water Supply.'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises two parts that contain correspondence pertaining to two distinct topics. Part one discusses the possibility of discovering oil deposits in Koweit [Kuwait] and Bahrein [Bahrain], with some reference also made to the potential for deposits to be found in Syria and the Farsa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1918
Extent:
1 volume (186 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/415

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/415
Title:
File 4044/1913 Pts 1-2 'Bagdad Railway Negotiations'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains drafts and counter-drafts of the Anglo-German Convention on the Bagdad Railway, plus agreements involving the Bagdad Railway Company, the Ottoman Railway Company, the Anatolian Railway Company, and the Ottoman Government. There is also correspondence regarding the negotiation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1913-1914
Extent:
1 volume (285 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/523

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/523
Title:
File P 53 1915 Pt 1 'German War - The Khalifate and Pan-Arab Movement'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to British support for an Arab caliphate under British suzerainty. The discussion in the volume relates to the plots to foment a rebellion in the Arab Ottoman provinces and the military support required fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1915
Extent:
1 volume (360 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/525

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/525
Title:
File 53/1915 Pt 3-4 'German War - The Caliphate'
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 (271 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/526

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/526
Title:
File 53/1915 Pt 5 'German War: Turkey; Arab Kingdom; the Petrograd negotiations'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the discussions (Petrograd negotiations) between Britain, France and Russia over the creation of an Arab Kingdom and associated zones of British, French and Russian influence in the event of the defeat o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1918
Extent:
1 volume (214 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/657

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/657
Title:
File 756/1917 Pt 1 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 1 to 65’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin numbers 1-65 produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 volume (616 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/742

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/742
Title:
File 2447/1918 'Antiquities Mesopotamia: Preservation of Historical Ruins. (Campbell Thomson and Hall Collection of Antiques)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the preservation of ruins of historical interest in Palestine and Mesopotamia [Iraq] after the First World War. The papers notably cover the following: Arrangements for British specialists and archaeologi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1918-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (336 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/755

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/755
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: administration of policy and situation'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the administration of, and situation in, Mesopotamia [Iraq] following the Asia Minor Agreement of 1916, more commonly known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, between the French and British governments, and the An...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
23 Oct 1918-2 Nov 1919
Extent:
1 volume (326 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/756

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/756
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 2 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: SITUATION’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the administration of and situation in Mesopotamia [Iraq] after the Agreement of 1916 between the French and British governments and the self-determination of Mesopotamia. The papers notably cover: The arg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1919-6 Aug 1920
Extent:
1 volume (256 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/911

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/911
Title:
File 4917/1920 'MESOPOTAMIA: MANDATE [AND PALESTINE]'
Scope & Content:
The volume includes correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters, minutes, draft mandates and conventions. The correspondence is mainly about the British Mandate for Palestine and Mesopotamia, and the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon. British and French officials exchanged draft copies o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Jun 1920-31 Dec 1924
Extent:

1 volume (377 folios)