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037-000554997 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Ministry of Information, 1939-1946

1. IOR/L/PS/12/480

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/480
Title:
PZ 852/41 '"Monitoring" Intercept.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Government of India, External Affairs Department, the Secretary of State for India, and the Ministry of Information, Censorship Division, regarding intercepted Italian and German broadcasts of an alleged engagement between the Fakir of Ipi and British ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1941-15 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/940

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/940
Title:
Ext 3859/44 'Arrangements for visits to war factories etc. (for officials home on leave)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers arranging for diplomats who are home on leave to have tours of factories involved in the war effort from the Ministry of Information.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1944-10 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/824

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/824
Title:
Ext 2725/43 'Anglo Persian Relief Fund'
Scope & Content:
This file consists primarily of letters, telegrams and reports regarding the Anglo Persian Charitable Relief Committee to Iran. The file contains two reports entitled 'Anglo-Iranian relief fund.' These reports list the cities that received aid from the fund and the amounts. The file contains a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1943-18 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/837A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/837A
Title:
Ext 3518/43 'Pol. Resident's Request for Photograph of himself'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters between Graves Law, Ministry of Information, Roland Tennyson Peel and E W R Lumby, and the India Office which discuss photographing Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Geoffrey Prior, the Public Relations Officer in the Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1943-4 Nov 1943
Extent:
1 file (8 files)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/511

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/511
Title:
PZ 2556/41 'Anglo-Iraq Hostilities. German broadcast on Afghan attitude'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, HM Minister at Kabul, the India Office and the Ministry of Information, regarding French and German radio broadcasts which stated that the Government of Afghanistan had warned Britain that they would enter the w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1941-4 Jun 1941
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/316

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/316
Title:
PZ 7261/39 'Kabul Mail: inclusion in India Office bag of papers, etc, for members of Legation Staff, etc'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the acquisition of 'certain periodicals' for the British Legation at Kabul for 'propaganda purposes' during the Second World War (1939-1945). The correspondence mainly details the dispute over which department should be liable for purchasing the peri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1939-10 Feb 1943
Extent:
1 file (22 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/514
Title:
PZ 2688/41 'Propaganda. Use of commercial channels for distribution of propaganda in Afghanistan and the Middle East.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for India, the Government of India, External Affairs Department, HM Minister at Kabul, the India Office and the Ministry of Information, regarding the possible use of commercial companies in India to distribute propaganda materials ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1941-11 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/513

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/513
Title:
PZ 2645/41 'Public Opinion in the Persian Gulf. Weekly telegraphic reports from the Political Resident.'
Scope & Content:
This file mainly consists of weekly telegrams from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and His Majesty's Minister at Kabul respectively, reporting on the trend of public opinion in the Persian Gulf (specifically Bahrain, Koweit [Kuwait], and Muscat) and Afghanistan regarding the Second Wo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1939-24 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (363 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/490

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/490
Title:
PZ 1489/41 'Jamming of Berlin Broadcasts'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Secretary of State for India, the Ministry of Information and the Wireless Telegraphy Board, discussing a proposal to jam Berlin Arabic radio broadcasts in the region of Bahrain, on account of their being li...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1941-5 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/801

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/801
Title:
Ext 1186/43 'Transmission of mail from Bahrain Petroleum Company, Bahrain Island, to its Head Office in New York'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the transmission of internal correspondence between Bahrain and New York by the Bahrain Petroleum Company. The file covers concerns that sensitive information is being sent openly and is therefore vulnerable to enemy interception, and suggestions that future tra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1942-17 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)