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1. IOR/L/MIL/7/19330

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/19330
Title:
Collection 435/8 ‘Part 1 Garrison of Iraq.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the military garrison in Iraq. Correspondents include the Government of India, India Office, War Office, Colonial Office and Air Ministry. Topics discussed include: Transfer of control of Mesopotamia [Iraq] to the Colonial OfficeReduction of the garr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 August 1921-5 September 1925
Extent:
1 file (395 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/7/19334

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/19334
Title:
Collection 435/10 ‘Part 1 Military Agreement with King Feisal; British Officials Agreement annexed to Iraq Treaty of 1922.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and papers relating to a subsidiary agreement to the Anglo-Iraq Treaty of 1922. Correspondents include the Colonial Office, Air Ministry, War Office, and King Faisal [Fayṣal bin al-Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, also written as Feisal within the volume]. The file co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 July 1922-21 December 1927
Extent:
1 file (489 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/523

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/523
Title:
File P 53 1915 Pt 1 'German War - The Khalifate and Pan-Arab Movement'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to British support for an Arab caliphate under British suzerainty. The discussion in the volume relates to the plots to foment a rebellion in the Arab Ottoman provinces and the military support required fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1915
Extent:
1 volume (360 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1037

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1037
Title:
File 464/1922 Pt 4 'PERSIA:- AMERICAN FINANCIAL MISSION'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to the Financial Mission of the United States to Qajar Persia [Iran] and a scheme to create an agricultural bank. The bulk of the correspondence documents the financial crisis within Persia and the impact on its neighbours in British Iraq and India, their comm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
25 May 1926-23 Dec 1930
Extent:
1 volume (437 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2845-2902

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2845-2902
Title:
Political (External) Collection 17: Iraq
Scope & Content:
This collection consists of files mainly relating to the administration of Iraq, relations between Iraq and the United Kingdom, and relations between Iraq and neighbouring states and other nations, during the period of the British Mandate (1921-1932), independence (1932-1941), and the subsequent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1921-1948
Extent:

46 files and 12 volumes (15,176 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3351

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3351
Title:
Coll 26/9 'Palestine: Palestine Commission, 1937 and Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Report) 1938: Reactions in the Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the Palestine Royal Commission, the Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Report), and contemporary reactions in the Persian Gulf sheikhdoms [shaikhdoms]. The correspondence is primarily between the Foreign Office, the India Office and the Colonial O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1937-1 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (264 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/4486

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4486
Title:
Coll 44/6(S) 'War. Defence, Protective and other measures. Iraq:- Military co-operation between U.K. and Iraq in time of war.'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the military co-operation between Britain and Iraq during the Second World War including:A query (ff 207-208) from the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs as to the extent of aid that they could expect from Britain in event of the outbreak of war with ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 March 1938-10 Dec 1942
Extent:
1 file (208 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/4790

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4790
Title:
Coll 56/5 'Pakistan Foreign Policy. Relations with Iraq'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern Pakistan's relations with Iraq. A letter from British Ambassador to Iraq William Henry Bradshaw Mack to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Ernest Bevin, discusses the views of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, on communism and Zionism. Also included is...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1949-2 Mar 1950
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/20/235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/235
Title:
‘ARAB TRIBES OF THE BAGHDAD WILAYAT’
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled Arab Tribes of the Baghdad Wilayat [vilayet], and is a British intelligence document on the tribes living in the area around the city of Baghdad. It was compiled in July 1918 by the Arab Bureau, Baghdad (the Arab Bureau was a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department es...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:

1 volume (147 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/20/C202/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C202/3
Title:
‘MILITARY REPORT ON IRAQ (Area 6) LOWER EUPHRATES’
Scope & Content:
A volume in a series of official publications entitled ‘Military Report on Mesopotamia (Iraq).’, compiled by the General Staff, British Forces in Iraq. This volume covers an area referred to as ‘Area 6: Lower Euphrates’. This area contains the lower section of the Euphrates River, running nort...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922-1927
Extent:
1 volume (223 folios)