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1. 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)

2. IOR/L/PS/20/C190

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C190
Title:
Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
This volume is a confidential handbook on Mesopotamia prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, dated February 1919. There is a table of contents which includes the following chapters: I: 'Geography Physical and Political', including 'Position and Frontiers', ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1919
Extent:

1 volume (76 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/4600

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4600
Title:
Coll 45/13 ‘PROPAGANDA Proposed Ministry of Information office in Basra (Savidge)’
Scope & Content:
The papers relate to the establishment of a Ministry of Information office in Basra. Correspondence discusses the practicalities and issues relating to the engagement of the services of Major C A G Savidge of the Department of External Affairs, Government of India, to take charge of the Ministry ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Aug 1941-10 Jun 1944
Extent:
1 file (43 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2900

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2900
Title:
Coll 17/38 'Iraq. British Consulates in Basra.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a carbon copy of one letter from the Foreign Office to the Secretary of the Admiralty, dated 26 January 1942 (sent by the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under Secretary of State for India), informing the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that the status ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1942-2 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/617

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/617
Title:
File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1916-17 PORTION'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises mainly printed correspondence, telegrams, summaries, printed reports, notes, receipts, statistical tables, and other papers concerning miscellaneous matters relating to Mesopotamia, including Basra, and also Bahrain. The papers notably cover: The Iraq Occupied Territories ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1915-27 Dec 1917
Extent:
1 volume (723 folios)

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

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/821/3
Title:
File 2023/1919 Pt 3 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: Proceedings of BASRA Municipal Council’
Scope & Content:
This item comprises papers relating to the establishment of the Municipal Council in the province of Basra [also written as Basrah], in Mesopotamia [Iraq] under the British colonial administration. Papers comprise an India Office Political Department coversheets, minute papers, memoranda and encl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1918-12 May 1920
Extent:
1 item (37 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2902

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2902
Title:
Coll 17/40 'Iraq. Basra Consulate-General Monthly Summaries'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of copies of monthly summaries from the British Consulate-General at Basra, for March, April, and May 1947, which were sent to the India Office by the Foreign Office. The summaries cover the following: the political and tribal situation in Basra; labour; the press; personalit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 May 1947-28 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/333

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/333
Title:
File 342/1913 'Mesopotamia: Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Co; mail contract'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains memoranda, correspondence, telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding a contract between the India Office and the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company for mail service and commercial transports on the River Tigris between Baghdad and Basra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Feb 1904-30 Jun 1919
Extent:
1 volume (138 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B284

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B284
Title:
Eastern Committee. The future of Mesopotamia. (Note by Sir Percy Cox.)
Scope & Content:
This note was written by Major-General Percy Zachariah Cox in April 1918 in his capacity as Civil Commissioner, Baghdad. It consists of two main parts. The first part deals with the premises for British policy, namely, the proclamation issued on British arrival in Baghdad, that they had come to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Apr 1918
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/366/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/366/1
Title:
File 1283/1913 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Anglo-German Commercial Competition'
Scope & Content:
This is part one (of two) of a larger volume IOR/L/PS/10/366; it concerns increasing German competition experienced by British firms trading in the Persian Gulf region, and contains discussion between British officials as to possible action to strengthen the latter. Specific issues predominant...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1912-24 December 1913
Extent:

1 item (135 folios)