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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Imperial Government of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918

1. IOR/L/PS/10/193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/193
Title:
File 520/1911 'Arabia:- Arms Traffic in the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns arms traffic by sea into Yemen in the course of the rebellion there against Turkish rule. The principal correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office, the India Office, and the Admiralty; the Viceroy of India (Lord Hardinge); and diplomatic representatives of the G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Feb 1911-20 Oct 1911
Extent:
1 file (167 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B222
Title:
Correspondence with the Grand Sherif of Mecca
Scope & Content:
This secret file is a collection of printed correspondence. It contains telegrams between Joshua Milne Crompton Cheetham, Acting High Commissioner at Cairo, and the Foreign Office, letters from and correspondence between Shaikh Abdalla Ibn Hosayn [Abd Allāh ibn al-Husayn] and his father, Hussein...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1914-10 Mar 1916
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/670

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/670
Title:
File 1323/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters and telegrams related to the temporary administration of Baghdad Vilayet [province] and the question of the type of postage stamps to be used for the civil post office at Baghdad during the British occupation. The correspondence is partic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
26 Mar 1915-18 Dec 1918
Extent:
1 volume (274 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/671

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/671
Title:
File 1323/1917 Pt 2-5 ‘Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters, memoranda and telegrams related to the supply of overprinted stamps of Mesopotamia/Iraq. The main issues discussed in the volume are the following: The question of whether to continue using the overprinted Turkish stamps after the declar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Oct 1917-2 Mar 1921
Extent:
1 volume (344 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/689

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/689
Title:
File 2813/1917 'MESPOT: SAMARRA ANTIQUITIES'
Scope & Content:
This file chiefly comprises: correspondence; India Office Political and Secret Department Minutes, Draft Papers and Draft Telegrams; copies of letters and telegrams; notes and memoranda; and reports. The file relates mainly to the discussions regarding the disposal of antiquities from Samarra [...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jun 1917-25 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/473

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/473
Title:
File 3443/1914 Pt 2 'German War: German emissaries to Afghanistan'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the Persian Campaign of the First World War and the movements and activities of the Central Powers in Persia [Iran] between June and November 1915. The correspondence is particularly concerned with German and Ottoman attempts to infiltrate Afghanistan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Jun 1915-21 Nov 1915
Extent:
1 volume (238 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/463

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/463
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 2 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning events in Mesopotamia and in the Persian Gulf, leading up to and immediately after the outbreak of war between Great Britain and Turkey. The file is a chronological continuation of File 3136/1914 Pt 1 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’ (IOR/L/PS/10/462...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Oct 1914-8 Dec 1914
Extent:
1 volume (248 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/301

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/301
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/300), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1913-31 Mar 1914
Extent:

1 volume (148 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B381/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B381/1
Title:
No. 1. Anglo-Turkish Agreement. Collection of documents signed on July 29, 1913.
Scope & Content:
The item consists of a collection of documents signed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Edward Grey) and the Grand Vizier of Ottoman Empire (Ibrahim Hakki Pasha) on 29 July 1913. It contains the following: a convention concerning the establishment of a commission to improve the con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Jul 1913
Extent:

1 item (8 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/196/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/196/4
Title:
File 4327/1911 Part 4 'Turco-Italian War: Red Sea Blockade'
Scope & Content:
Part four consists of correspondence relating to an Italian blockade of parts of the Red Sea coast of present-day Saudi Arabia. Several matters are covered by the correspondence: the classification of Turkish grain ships as contraband of war by the Italians; the Italian blockade of Hodeidah [Ḥud...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Oct 1911-Mar 1912
Extent:
1 item (70 folios)