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037-000228401 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Iraq, Middle East, Asia

1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. IOR/R/15/2/785

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/785
Title:
‘File 29/25 DATES QUOTA – 1944-’45 FOR BAHRAIN AND TRUCIAL COAST’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about a British Ministry of Food scheme in 1944 for ensuring a controlled supply of Iraqi dates at reasonable prices to the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms during the Second World War (1939-1945), because local date crops were insufficient and imported dates were subject...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 May 1944-24 Jan 1950
Extent:
1 file (92 folios)