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1. IOR/F/4/2634/167145

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2634/167145
Title:
‘Bagdad. Memoir on the province of – by Commander F. Jones of the Indian Navy, and Surveyor in Mesopotamia.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of Political Letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 13 October 1855. The enclosures are dated 5 October 1854-5 October 1855. The corre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
5 Oct 1854-13 Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item (124 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/6/118, ff 299-302

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/118, ff 299-302
Title:
Political No. 109 of 1874, Forwarding a Copy of Further Papers on the Subject of the Salute Recently Fired from the Comet on the Political Agent’s Return from Busreh to Baghdad
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 16 June 1874 and received by the India Office Political Department on 13 July 1874, forwarding copies of further papers on the subject of the salute rece...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1874-13 Jul 1874
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/821/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/821/2
Title:
File 2023/1919 Pt 2 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: Proceedings of BAGHDAD Municipal Council’
Scope & Content:
This item comprises papers relating to the establishment of the Municipal Council in the province of Baghdad, in Mesopotamia [Iraq] under the British colonial administration. Papers comprise an India Office Political Department coversheet, memoranda and an enclosure in typescript, notably coverin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1919-28 Jan 1920
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/821/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/821/5
Title:
File 2023/1919 Pt 5 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: Proceedings of BAGHDAD Divisional Council’
Scope & Content:
This item comprises papers relating to the establishment of the Divisional Council at Baghdad, as well as observations relating to circumstances leading to the attempted Revolution of 1920, in Mesopotamia [Iraq] under the British colonial administration. Papers comprise memoranda and enclosures i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Aug 1919-11 Aug 1919
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/869/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/869/3
Title:
File 6665/1919 Pt 5 ‘Mesopotamia: Finance. BUDGETS (1918-19, 1919-20)’
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence, draft papers, telegrams, memoranda, reports, and minutes regarding financial budgets for the British administration in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The papers notably cover: Estimates of receipts and expenditure The budget for the civil administration in Mesopotamia State...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1918-8 Mar 1921
Extent:
1 item (158 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/C199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C199
Title:
‘PERSONALITIES. BAGHDAD AND KADHAMAIN.’
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled ‘Personalities of Baghdad and Kadhamain’ [Al Kazimiyah], produced by British authorities in Baghdad in 1920. The publication comprises a list of persons, in broadly alphabetical order by first name, accompanied by biographical notes. These primarily cover the pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920
Extent:

1 volume (92 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/C253/1, f 158

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C253/1, f 158
Title:
City of Baghdad
Scope & Content:
This map depicts the city of Baghdad. The map shows the River Tigris, names the city’s districts, and depicts main roads, bridges, lanes, railways, and covered bazaars. Also shown are key sites of civil and military infrastructure and services, including airports, stations, mosques, hospitals, f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 map sheet

8. IOR/R/15/1/610-615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/610-615
Title:
File 73: Routes and Railways in Persia and Arabia
Scope & Content:
These files and volumes contain correspondence, maps, newspaper cuttings, and other documents relating to the planning and building of the Baghdad Railway and its extension to Basra. Questions addressed within the files are those of ownership and control (contested between Germany, Britain, the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1911-1919
Extent:

6 files and volumes (1107 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/98
Title:
1/C Vol: V Miscellaneous.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, printed reports, memoranda, and notes, relating to miscellaneous topics concerning the Kuwait Agency from August to December 1924. The discussion in the volume relates to the following topics: Ikhwan raids, 1924 Proposed land mail serv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1924-27 Dec 1924
Extent:
1 volume (208 folios)