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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Military intelligence Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968

1. IOR/H/550

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/550
Title:
Papers of Brigadier-General John Jacob (East India Company) Mainly Relating to the Anglo-Persian War (1856-1857), and the Aftermath
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, reports, memoranda, petitions, registers and other papers relating chiefly to events following the Anglo-Persian War (1856-1857) Armistice, signed in Paris 4 March 1857, notably the military withdrawal, diplomatic, political, logistical and security-related m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1856-Dec 1857
Extent:
1 volume (728 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/85

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/85
Title:
File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials about government expenditure on the Government of India post of Military Attaché at the British Consulate General at Meshed in Persia. The main correspondents are senior officials in London at the Foreign Office, India Office, War ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1904-16 Nov 1911
Extent:
1 volume (259 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/467

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/467
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning Britain’s declaration of Egypt as a British Protectorate in November 1914. The volume includes: Correspondence relating to Britain’s annexation of Cyprus in November 1914, and the status of Cypriots and Egyptians in Cyprus as British subjects (ff 120-125). Papers concerning the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Nov 1914-30 Mar 1918
Extent:

1 volume (124 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/472

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/472
Title:
File 3443/1914 Pt 1 'German War: Turkish and German intrigues in India'
Scope & Content:
Thevolume contains correspondence regarding the movements and activities ofPan-Islamic activists in India, Afghanistan and North Africa during the firstyear of the First World War. The correspondence is particularly concerned withpossible German and Ottoman support for the activists in carrying ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jun 1914-3 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 volume (175 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/576

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/576
Title:
File 4744/1915 Pt 1-2 'THE WAR: ARAB BUREAU AT CAIRO. INTELLIGENCE SERVICE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'The War: Arab Bureau at Cairo. Intelligence Service for the Middle East'. Part 1 [IOR/L/PS/10/576/1] concerns the establishment and work of the Arab Bureau at Cairo, 1915-18 (folios 46-238). Part 2 [IOR/L/PS/10/576/2] concerns War Office propos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1920
Extent:
1 volume (240 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/839

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/839
Title:
File 3467/1919 'MESOPOTAMIA POLICE REPORTS'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains weekly police reports from the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Baghdad, covering events in Iraq [sometimes referred to in the volume as Mesopotamia] under British occupation in 1919-20, including during the Iraqi Revolt. The reports contain intelligence about the movements ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 May 1919-4 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 volume (639 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/1167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1167
Title:
Ext 6116/46(S) 'Secret Weekly Political Intelligence Summaries, nos 356-416, August 1946-November 1947'
Scope & Content:
This file contains a set of Weekly Political Intelligence Summaries published by the Foreign Office. The summaries are numbered, and begin from 356 at the back of the file, and end with number 416 at the front. The weekly reports contain military and political intelligence spanning all theatres o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1946-14 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (478 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3517

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3517
Title:
Coll 28/106 ‘Persia. Infiltration of British agents.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, some marked Most Secret, discussing ways in which British agents could be deployed in Persia [Iran] and other countries in the region (Iraq, Afghanistan) to counter German influence during the Second World War. The correspondence discusses: how British firms operating in Iran cou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jun 1941-27 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/20/FO31

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/FO31
Title:
ARABIA. 1905.
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of published copies of correspondence between the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Government of India, the Admiralty, British administrative and diplomatic staff, foreign governments and their staff, and private companies and individuals. It was printed for use by the F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1905-1906
Extent:
1 volume (294 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/599

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/599
Title:
‘WILFRED THESIGER’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the movements of Wilfred Thesiger at the end of his second crossing of the Empty Quarter [al-Rub‘ al-Khālī]. Correspondence in the file is between the Political Officer, Sharjah; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident, Bahrain; the Political Agent, Muscat; the Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1948-27 May 1950
Extent:
1 file (61 folios)