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2. IOR/L/PS/10/517
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/517
- Title:
- File 4097/1914 Pt 6-7 'Mesopotamia'
- Scope & Content:
- This file contains papers relating to the assignment of new staff to the administration of Mesopotamia or Iraq upon its occupation during the First World War. The majority of the papers contain correspondence between British civil commissioners in Cairo or Baghdad and discuss the possible assignm...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4 Feb 1917-19 Feb 1921
- Extent:
- 1 file (348 folios)
3. 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)
4. IOR/L/PS/10/399
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/399
- Title:
- File 2977/1913 'Baghdad Railway: negotiations with Germany'
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains diplomatic correspondence and agreements relating to the completion of sections of the Berlin to Baghdad Railway. In particular, the papers discuss the extension of the railway from Baghdad to Basra, and possibly its extension to the Persian Gulf at Shatt-al-Arab waterway. A...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 2 Jun 1908-25 Sep 1913
- Extent:
- 1 volume (337 folios)
5. IOR/L/PS/18/B24
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/18/B24
- Title:
- Memorandum
- Scope & Content:
- A memorandum with a cover note, in which the Political Resident and Consul General at Baghdad, Trevor John Chichele Plowden, writes to the Political Secretary, India Office, Sir Owen Tudor Burne, suggesting that clarification be sought from the Turkish Porte regarding their permission for the Bri...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1 Mar 1883-8 Mar 1883
- Extent:
-
3 folios
6. 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
7. 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)
8. IOR/L/PS/5/465, ff 62-68
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/465, ff 62-68
- Title:
- Turkish Arabia Affairs
- Scope & Content:
- This part of the volume consists of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 46 of 1850, dated 14 September 1850. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 4 July 1850. Correspondence from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia (A...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 14 Sep 1850
- Extent:
- 1 item (7 folios)
9. IOR/L/PS/18/B220
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/18/B220
- Title:
- ‘Advance to Baghdad – Political Considerations. Note by Political Department, India Office.’
- Scope & Content:
- Note written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Assistant Secretary of the Political Department, India Office, on the political and strategic importance that would be associated with British forces taking Baghdad, and the likely political and strategic injury that the British would incur should they fai...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 6 Oct 1915
- Extent:
-
1 file (1 folio)
10. IOR/L/PS/18/B299
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/18/B299
- Title:
- 'B 299. Mesopotamia. Note on Demobilisation by Civil Commissioner, Baghdad.'
- Scope & Content:
- Note on demobilisation by Arnold Talbot Wilson, Civil Commissioner, Baghdad (enclosed in letter to the India Office, No 20517, dated 28 September 1918). The note gives details on the two areas that demobilisation would need to cover, namely the repatriation of the fighting force and the transfe...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- Dec 1918
- Extent:
-
4 folios






