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037-000554997 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name HM Ambassador to Iran, 1807-1980

1. IOR/L/PS/12/1203

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1203
Title:
Ext 1410/47 'The Khodadad Bequest'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a letter, telegrams, and notes between officials of the Government of India, India Office, and the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations regarding the Khodadad Bequest. The file concerns the legacy of Khodadad bin Mohamed, who died in 1862. He left in his will a b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1947-22 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1082

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1082
Title:
Ext 5432/45 'Bag Service to Tehran'
Scope & Content:
This file contains an announcement from the Foreign Office to Embassies in the Middle East regarding a change in route for the delivery of bags into Basra.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/106

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/106
Title:
PZ 2584/34 'Persia: Tehran Census, 1933'
Scope & Content:
The file contains three Foreign Office documents relating to the official censuses of population conducted in Persia [Iran] in 1933 and 1940. The first document is a memorandum written in 1934 by John Percival Summerscale, the Counsellor (Commercial) at the British Legation, Tehran. He comments ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1934-4 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/322

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/322
Title:
PZ 8058/1939 'Persia: censorship of news'
Scope & Content:
This letter was sent from Horace James Seymour (British Minister at Tehran) to Viscount Halifax (Foreign Secretary), and details the practice of, and possible reasons for, police censorship of the news in Persia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1939-10 Jan 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/503

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/503
Title:
PZ 2068/41(1) 'Rebellion in Iraq 1941'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the rebellion in Iraq in 1941. The discussion in the file relates to the military and propaganda measures taken by Britain against the pro-German Iraqi government of Rashid Ali and the implications for ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1941-28 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (538 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/651

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/651
Title:
Ext 6050/41 'Persia - Travel in Persia'
Scope & Content:
This file is comprised of correspondence between HM Ambassador to Afghanistan, HM Ambassador to Iran and the Foreign Office regarding travel restrictions and visa arrangements for British subjects wishing to travel in the Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1941-8 Oct 1941
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/356

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/356
Title:
PZ 1507/1940 'UK-Persia: agreement to facilitate Persian purchases of material for defence and development'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a copy of an agreement intended to facilitate Persian purchases of material for defence and development (folios 7-10), and letters relating to the agreement. The agreement was forward by the Secretary to the Treasury, whilst the other documents, including letters written by Rea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1940-28 Sep 1940
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/157

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/157
Title:
PZ 4604/35 'Persian Law of Arbitration'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a new Persian Law of Arbitration passed by the Majlis in its session of 17 February 1935. It consists of correspondence sent to the Board of Trade by George William Rendel, Head of the Eastern Department, Foreign Office, and a despatch from Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1935-Jul 1935
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/654

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/654
Title:
Ext 6395/41 'Proposal to establish a Chinese Legation in Tehran'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence between the Foreign Office and HM Ambassador to Iran regarding a Chinese Legation in Tehran from the point at which it was proposed until the first Chinese Minister to Iran, Mr. Li Tieh-tseng, assumed his post in May 1942. Among the topics discussed include: ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1941-29 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/133
Title:
PZ 2031/35 'Mines and Mining Concessions in Persia'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to mines and mining concessions in Persia. Correspondence discusses German mining ventures in relation to nickel, copper and gold deposits in Anarek and contracts between the Government of Iran and German c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Mar 1935-20 Aug 1943
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)