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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name British Legation, Tehran, c 1836-1944 Place Iran, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/12/334

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/334
Title:
PZ 831/40 'Rumour (unfounded) that Americans had been warned to leave Persia before the end of November 1939'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials relating to a rumour that American citizens had been advised by their Consuls to leave Iran, as the American Consulate would not be responsible for their safety after November 1939. The main correspondents are the Central Intelligence ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1940-24 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3424

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3424
Title:
Coll 28/27 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Delay + mutilation of telms for Tehran Legation. Suggested alternative arrangements.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the India Office (John Gilbert Laithwaite), Foreign Office (Charles William Baxter; George William Rendel), and the British Legetation at Tehran (Raymond Cecil Parr), concerning the desire to retain a British telegraphist at Tehran after the withdrawal of the Indo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1930-26 Mar 1931
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3488

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3488
Title:
Coll 28/84 ‘Iran. Changes in Iranian place names.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to the Persian Government’s decision in 1935 to change the name of the country from Persia to Iran, and of the changes throughout the 1930s to the names of numerous provinces, towns and cities across the country. The papers include: translated copies of memoran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
12 Feb 1931-22 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (155 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3500

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3500
Title:
Coll 28/94 ‘Iran. Difficulties experienced by British subjects in Iran in remitting money abroad.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the difficulties encountered by British (predominantly British-Indian) subjects in Iran, in remitting money abroad after the introduction of the Iranian Government’s Foreign Exchange Control Law on 1 March 1936. The correspondence is chiefly exchanged between: official...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jun 1936-5 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (121 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3509

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3509
Title:
Coll 28/98 ‘Persia. Grant of asylum to political refugees.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence stemming from an enquiry made on 2 August 1935 by the Acting Consul at Kermanshah, Charles Alexander Gault, to HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at Tehran, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesson, as to whether traders and ulema in the town could take bast (asylum) ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1935-18 Feb 1937
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3553

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3553
Title:
Coll 29/2(2) 'Transfer of Bushire Residency to Bahrain: selection of site and construction of buildings'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the transfer of the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf from Bushire to Bahrain. The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between British officials including Central Public Works Department (A Croad), India Office officials (John Charles Walton, R Peel, E P D...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1937-31 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (402 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/4135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4135
Title:
Coll 35/26 'Cable reorganisation in the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the reorganisation of telegraph communications in Iran after 1935. The file contains: Closure of Naval Station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], Basidu [Bāsa‘īdū], and of British Cemetery and Henjam Wireless Station, 1935 Negotiations with Cable and Wireless on their proposal to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Mar 1935-18 Dec 1937
Extent:
1 volume (561 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/4136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4136
Title:
Coll 35/26(2) 'Cable reorganisation in the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns wireless stations and buildings in the Persian Gulf: at Bushire, Jask, Lingah [Bandar-e-Lengeh] and Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām]. The file focuses on: closing of wireless station at Jask, 1938 Government of India's proposals for the disposal of the apparatus and buildings of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1937-18 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (178 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/4150

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4150
Title:
Coll 35/43 'Persian Gulf: acceptance at Persian ports of mail from Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the exchange of mails and parcels between Iran and Bahrain. The file contains correspondence between: the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf; the Foreign Office; HM Legation at Tehran; and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Iran.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1941-2 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/174

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/174
Title:
File 3/4 Relations with Persia
Scope & Content:
This file concerns Britain's relations with Persia (also referred to as Iran in some of the correspondence). It includes the following: cases of Persian customs authorities reportedly inhibiting (and in some cases preventing altogether) the passage of persons travelling between Persia and Kuwait...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1928-20 Aug 1949
Extent:
1 file (135 folios)