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036-000544688 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name British Consul, Khorramshahr, 1880-1968

1. IOR/L/PS/10/547

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/547
Title:
File 1093/1915 ‘Basra & Mohammerah Consulates’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts. Part 1 contains correspondence and papers relating to appointments made at the British Consulate at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] (ff 5-74). Part 2 contains correspondence and papers concerning the re-opening and associated costs of a British Consulate at Basra (ff 76...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1929
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/379

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/379
Title:
File 1569/1913 Trans-Persian Railway
Scope & Content:
This volume contains multiple files with correspondence, reports, hand written memos, financial arrangements, and maps on the proposed Trans-Persian Railway. Most letters pertain to the charting of possible routes for the proposed railway in relation to British interests vis-à-vis the Russian Em...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1911-11 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (326 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/133
Title:
File 345/1908 Pt 2 'Mohammerah: situation. Sheikh's dispute with the Vali of Basra. decoration for Sheikh. renewed assurances to Sheikh.'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence including telegrams, hand written letters and printed enclosures, discusses an attack by a Turkish gun-boat on a village - Zain, belonging to the Shaikh of Mohammerah - which lay on the Turkish bank of the Shatt al-Arab waterway. The correspondence outlines the circumstances that ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1915
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/366

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/366
Title:
File 1283/1913 Pt 1-2 ‘Persian Gulf: German Competition’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with growing German competition to British trade in the Persian Gulf, and discussions around possible responses from the British authorities to protect Britain's trade and geopolitical interests. In particular, it is concerned with the joint workings of the Hamburg-America ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 May 1912-1 Jun 1916
Extent:
1 volume (334 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/41/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/41/2
Title:
File 1552/1904 Pt 3 ‘Mohammerah: Kherkha River Irrigation Scheme’
Scope & Content:
The part contains papers related to proposals for irrigation schemes. This includes a proposal that the Shaikh of Mohammerah [Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī] should be supported by the British Government in a bid to obtain a concession for an irrigation scheme on the Karun River Ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1909-12 Sep 1910
Extent:

1 item (126 folios)