Search

Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Iraq, Middle East, Asia

131. IOR/R/15/1/704

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/704
Title:
'Russo-Persian Relations, 1854-1875'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains records of correspondence (abstracts, lists, copies and originals) concerning relations between Russia and Persia during the period 1837-1875. The papers are as follows: Papers relating to Russian proceedings on the island of Ashoorada [Ashuradeh] covering the years 1837-185...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1860-1910
Extent:
1 volume (173 folios)

132. IOR/R/15/1/730

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/730
Title:
Historical Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf, 1907-1928
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf, 1907-1928 (printed by the Committee of Imperial Defence, October 1928). Includes sections on The Ottoman Empire, Persia, Arabia (Nejd [Najd]), Moh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928
Extent:
1 volume (90 folios)

133. IOR/R/15/1/746

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/746
Title:
Biographical Notes
Scope & Content:
The volume contains manuscript draft biographical notes on Persian statesmen and notables compiled by George Percy Churchill. Many of the notes are accompanied by imprints of the subject's seal and signature (in Persian); some by typescript pages, extracts from published works and newspaper cut...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
c 1904
Extent:
1 volume (302 folios)

134. IOR/R/15/2/76

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/76
Title:
File 1/3 Sultan of Nejd, 1921-22
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] (also referred to Ibn Sa'ud), Sultan of Najd (also referred to as Nejd), particularly in relation to frontier disputes with Kuwait and Iraq. The file contains correspondence between the Politica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1921-6 Oct 1928
Extent:
1 volume (233 folios)

135. IOR/R/15/2/138

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/138
Title:
File 9/11 Grant of Passports and Permits by the Bahrain Government and Treaty with Persia relative to withdrawal of claim to
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers related to Persia's withdrawal of claims to sovereignty over Bahrain. The majority of the file's correspondence takes place between the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Barrett until N...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1 May 1929-14 Jul 1930
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

136. IOR/R/15/2/321

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/321
Title:
File 8/18 Iraq: Review of Events, 1933
Scope & Content:
The file contains an intelligence report and analysis of events and affairs in Iraq during the year 1933, produced by British Air Headquarters at Hinaidi, Iraq. The report is written by Wing Commander John L Vachell of Air Staff Intelligence. The report is divided into five main sections relati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1934
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

137. IOR/R/15/2/368

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/368
Title:
File 9/23 I Fishing schemes in Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the development of new fisheries in Abadan, to improve the diet of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's staff. There are two copies of a report on Abadan fishery schemes, (ff 5-19 and ff 23-37) and a brief...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Aug 1944-21 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

138. IOR/R/15/2/593

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/593
Title:
‘19/5 SHUNKICHI NOMURA - JAPANESE OIL BROKER’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns a Japanese oil broker named Shunkichi Nomura; his intention to travel from Kabul to Iraq; the possibility he may be acting for the Japanese Government; and his eventual abandonment of plans to travel to Iraq. The file contains correspondence between Captain Everard Huddleston G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1933-25 Aug 1933
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

139. IOR/R/15/2/640

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/640
Title:
‘File 25/4 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance, 1930’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to press and parliamentary demands in Iraq, emerging during June 1945, for a renegotiation of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance of 1930. These papers are as follows: a printed copy of the ‘Treaty of Alliance between the United Kingdom and ‘Iraq, with Exchanges ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1930-5 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

140. IOR/R/15/2/717

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/717
Title:
‘File 28/27 Disturbances in Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, letters and other papers responding to the military operations carried out by British forces against Iraqi forces in Iraq between 2 and 31 May 1941, as part of the campaign widely referred to as the Anglo-Iraqi War, and the political aftermath of the War, concluding...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1941-9 Feb 1943
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)