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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name King of Iraq, 1921-1958

1. IOR/L/PS/10/962

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/962
Title:
File 301/1921 'MESOPOTAMIA: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Intelligence Reports of Sir Percy Cox, High Commissioner for Mesopotamia [also written as Iraq in this volume], based in Baghdad, covering the period 15 November 1920 to 15 September 1921. They largely relate to: the political situation in Mesopotamia and the surrounding...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1920-31 Oct 1921
Extent:
1 volume (289 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1125/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1125/3
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 4 ‘Arabia:- Nejd-Hedjaz Situation. Attitude of Moslem world. Hedjaz deputation to India. Nejd deputation to India.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to a proposal by the Ruler of Iraq, King Feisal [Fayṣal al-Awwal ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], to organise a conference of rulers from the Islamic world, in order to settle the future administration of Islam’s holy cities. The proposal was in response to the invasio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1926
Extent:

1 item (89 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1247
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 16 'Iraq-Nejd Frontier: Bon Voisinage agreement between Iraq & Nejd'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns negotiations over the signing of a friendship and bon voisinage [border co-operation] agreement between the Kingdom of Iraq, and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (usually referred to separately as Hejaz or Nejd), following the suppression by the Hejaz Government of the Akhwan [I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jan 1930-1 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (926 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2
Title:
PZ 53/31 'Disposal of Rebel Leaders - Ibn Mashur.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the case of Farhan ibn Mashur, who had committed various acts of rebellion against Ibn Saud. At the conference on HMS Lupin in February 1930 (the Lupin Conference) the King of Iraq (Faisal I) had given a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1931-21 May 1931
Extent:
1 file (87 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3
Title:
PZ 63/31 'Arabia: Settlement of Iraq-Hejaz Raid Claims'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to raid claims issuing between Iraq and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Najd. The discussion in the volume relates to the negotiations of compensation, final agreement and arrangements for payment and distributio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jan 1931-21 May 1931
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2065

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2065
Title:
Coll 6/4(2) 'Asir: Relations between Saudi Arabia and the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
This volume mostly contains copies of Foreign Office correspondence (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) relating to the strained relations between Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the Imam o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1933-19 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 volume (394 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2071

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2071
Title:
Coll 6/8(1) 'Printed Series: 1929 to 1938.'
Scope & Content:
This volume compiles printed copies of letters, telegrams, memoranda and newspaper extracts relating to Britain's involvement across the Arabian Peninsula during the period 1929-1938. Whilst the correspondence encompasses all matters concerning British interests in the region, much of it relates...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Jan 1929-15 Jan 1938
Extent:
1 volume (527 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2872

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2872
Title:
Coll 17/16(1) 'Iraq. The Assyrian Crisis'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers regarding the Assyrian Crisis in Iraq during 1933. It primarily consists of correspondence between HM Ambassador to Iraq (Sir Francis Humphrys), HM Chargé d’Affaires to Iraq (George Ogilvie-Forbes), and the Foreign Office. The papers document the negotiations between ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1933-31 Aug 1933
Extent:
1 volume (514 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2873

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2873
Title:
Coll 17/16(2) 'The Assyrian question'
Scope & Content:
This volume is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2872, and contains papers regarding the Assyrian Crisis in Iraq during 1933. It consists of correspondence between HM Ambassador to Iraq (Sir Francis Humphrys), HM Chargé d’Affaires to Iraq (George Ogilvie-Forbes), and the Foreign Office, as well as c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Aug 1933-5 Dec 1933
Extent:
1 volume (556 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2881A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2881A
Title:
Coll 17/20(1) 'Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930. Revision of Treaty 1948'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the Treaty of Alliance (Anglo-Iraqi Treaty) of 1930 between the United Kingdom and Iraq, and the revised Treaty of Alliance of 1948. Papers dated January 1933 to December 1934 mostly concern the following: the attitude and policy of King Feisal and the Iraq...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1933-3 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (149 folios)