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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Embassies and consulates Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968

1. IOR/L/PS/10/131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/131
Title:
File 266/1908 Pt 2-3 ‘PERSIA:-D&C. EXPENDITURE’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers (mainly correspondence and financial statements) concerning diplomatic and consular expenditure by the Government of India and the British Government, mostly in relation to Persia [Iran]. Part 2 relates specifically to expenditure on consular buildings. Each part in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1909-9 May 1916
Extent:

1 volume (253 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/268

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/268
Title:
File 1360/1912 'Seistan Consulate Expenditure.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns increases made by the Government of India in the consular grant for the Seistan and Kain consulate (also referred to as Sistan). Additional expenditure was required mainly to maintain an increased consular guard, as a result of local unrest and Afghan raids: this increase was...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1911-25 Jan 1924
Extent:

1 volume (191 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/615
Title:
File P 3372/1916 Pt 1 'Arab Revolt: the French Mission. French Designs in Hedjaz'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, and India Office Secret Department minute papers, mostly relating to French policy regarding the Hedjaz [Hejaz or Hijaz]. This correspondence largely consists of: copies of telegrams between the Foreign Office and the British High Commissioner of Egypt (Sir Ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Aug 1916-31 May 1917
Extent:

1 volume (178 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/626

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/626
Title:
File 3839/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: - Incidence of expenditure in - question of revising the agreement of 1900'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers mostly relating to expenditure incurred in Persia, and the issue of how this expenditure should be divided between the Imperial and Indian Exchequers. The papers mainly consist of correspondence between the India Office and the following: the Foreign Office, the Fore...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1914-4 Jun 1928
Extent:

1 volume (430 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/627

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/627
Title:
File 3839/1916 Pt 2 'China:- Diplomatic and Consular expenditure. Question of increase of G. of I's contribution'
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly contains correspondence and India Office Minute Papers and internal notes relating to the Government of India’s contribution towards diplomatic and consular expenditure in China. The correspondence is between the India Office and the following: the Foreign Office, the Governmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1922-16 Jul 1934
Extent:

1 volume (215 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/634

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/634
Title:
File 4301/1916 Pts 1-3 'Persia. Kermanshah Consulate'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of three parts: Part 1 relates to the Consulate escorts at Kerman, Shiraz, and Kermanshah in Persia [Iran]; Part 2 relates to the British Consulate at Kermanshah; and Part 3 concerns the re-building of the Kermanshah Consulate. Each part includes a divider which gives the s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1926
Extent:

1 volume (310 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/942

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/942
Title:
File 7747/1920 Pt 1-2 ‘Arabistan: Consular Arrangements’
Scope & Content:
This volume is formed of two parts regarding British political and consular representation in Arabistan [Khuzestan] and its affairs. The two parts are as follows: Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/942/1) ‘Persia: – Arabistan – Consular arrangements in General Question' (ff 4-348) Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/942/2)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Oct 1920-5 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (449 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/895

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/895
Title:
Ext 338/44 'Ill treatment of Persian pilgrims at Mecca'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the execution without trial of a Persian pilgrim, accused of defiling the Great Mosque of Mecca, and ensuing agitation amongst Persian and other Shiah Muslims. The primary correspondents are: British Legation, Tehran; British Legation, Baghdad; British L...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1944-6 Oct 1944
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/1307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1307
Title:
Ext 878/48 'Establishment of USA consulate at Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding: a request from the United States Department of State to the British Government to approve the establishment of an American Consulate in Kuwait; and the recommendation by the Foreign Office to include the Consulate in the American Basra Consular District...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1948-19 Aug 1949
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2116

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2116
Title:
Coll 6/49 'Railways and Communications: Proposed Jedda-Mecca Railway. Motor Transport Arrangements.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the progress of schemes relating to the improvement of transport and communications in Saudi Arabia. The file largely consists of copies of correspondence received by the Foreign Office from His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1932-17 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (109 folios)