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1. IOR/L/PS/10/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/12
Title:
File 3142/1903 'Hedjaz Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains copies of correspondence between British officials regarding the construction of the Hedjaz [Hijaz] Railway. The correspondence discusses a number of different aspects of the railway including its route, the progress of its construction and donations made towards its constru...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1901-1908
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/40
Title:
File 1552/1904 Pt 1 'Mohammerah: Karun Irrigation Scheme.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, memorandum, notes, and reports on the Karun irrigation scheme, including many diagrams of the construction and layout. The principal correspondents are the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey), and representatives of the Indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1911
Extent:
1 volume (418 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/160
Title:
File 3874/1908 'Railways:-Trans-Persian Railway.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, memoranda, notes and reports on the proposed construction of the Trans-Persia railway which would link the European and Indian railway systems. The economic and strategic considerations of the construction of a railway linking Calais, Berlin, Bagh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1911
Extent:
1 volume (267 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/100
Title:
File 2818/1906 'Persia: Seistan disturbances and consular guard'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence which discusses a serious disturbance in Seistan in which a crowd attacked the British Consul over measures taken to limit the outbreak of plague. The dispatch of Indian Army troops to the town is discussed in the context of a consideration of the efficacy of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1909
Extent:
1 volume (165 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/166
Title:
File 3047/1909 'Railways: Asiatic Turkey; railway construction in Asia Minor'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the construction of railways in Asiatic Turkey, 1908-1911, as well as oil concessions in Mesopotamia. Correspondence outlines the proposal to develop a railway from Tripoli via Homs and Deir [Deir ez-Z...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1908-1911
Extent:
1 volume (182 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/591

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/591
Title:
File 1110/1916 Pt 2 'Persia: SITUATION Miscellaneous'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, on miscellaneous topics relating to Persia, April to June 1916. The file includes correspondence regarding the following issues: The disposal of Germans and Swedes now interned at Tehran The Russian advance from ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1920
Extent:
1 volume (271 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/592

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/592
Title:
File 1110/1916 Pt 3 'German War: Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, on miscellaneous topics relating to Persia, April to June 1916. The discussion in the volume includes the following topics: Decoration for the Persian Foreign Minister and Farman Farma for his military support of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (173 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/220

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/220
Title:
File 472/1912 'Loans to Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipetentiary to Persia (Sir George Head Barclay, and Sir Walter Beaupre Townley), the British Ambassador to Russia (Sir George William Buchanan), the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey) and r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Jan 1912-7 Jan 1913
Extent:
1 volume (170 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/590

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/590
Title:
File 1110/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: SITUATION (JAN-APL 1916). Miscellaneous'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the situation in Persia from January to April 1916. Topics discussed include: Finances of Bushire administration Germans at Kerman Insecure position of Farman Farma as Prime Minister. German movements a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (271 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/774

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/774
Title:
File 5655/1918 Pt 2 'Mesopotamia: Refugee Camp at Baqubah (1920 – papers)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British and French officials regarding the Christian (mostly Assyrian and Armenian) refugees in the refugee camp at Baqubah [also written Ba’qubah, Ba’quba and Baquba] in Mesopo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
27 Dec 1919-30 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 volume (464 folios)