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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name HM Treasury, 12th century- Place Basra, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/70

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/70
Title:
File 370/1905 ‘Turkish Arabia: - Basra Consulate. Expenditure etc’
Scope & Content:
The main contents of the volume are exchanges of letters about government expenditure on building maintenance and repairs to the British Consulate and Post Office at Basrah [Basra] in what is referred to as Turkish Arabia. The correspondence is mainly between British officials at the Foreign Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1905-9 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/529

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/529
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 2 'German War: Banks at Basra +c. - the Eastern Bank'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence and other papers mostly related to the Eastern Bank being invited by the Secretary of State for India to open a branch at Basra and to conduct the banking business of the Government of India at Basra. It also includes papers relating to: the Eastern Bank offer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1915-23 Jan 1918
Extent:

1 volume (212 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/868

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/868
Title:
File 6665/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: ADMINISTRATION. INCIDENCE OF COST; DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS REVENUES; CLAIMS OF THE OTTOMAN PUBLIC DEBT; STAMP DUTIES; CONTROL AND AUDIT OF EXPENDITURE’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, resolutions, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding different aspects of the administration in Mesopotamia. The papers notably cover: The incidence of cost of the temporary administration of Basra [also written in the correspondence as Basrah Wi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1914-14 Nov 1918
Extent:
1 volume (288 folios)