Search

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

11. IOR/L/PS/5/477, ff 303-307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/477, ff 303-307
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 43 of 1853, dated 18 July 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 20 May 1853. The papers relate to affairs in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jul 1853
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/6/112, ff 2-10a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/112, ff 2-10a
Title:
Political No. 168 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of a Letter Containing a Report on the Coal or Fossil Bitumen at Harbool
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 2 October 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 2 November 1873, forwarding a letter from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottom...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Oct 1873-1 Nov 1873
Extent:
1 item (15 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/10/188

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/188
Title:
File 3846/1910 'Mesopotamia: Baghdad affairs. Miscellaneous.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and memoranda, relating to the encroachment on the British Residency in Iraq by the Vali of Baghdad for the purpose of road widening. Also discussed is interference by the Turkish authorities with the property of Messrs Lynch Brothers a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1912
Extent:
1 volume (266 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/10/781

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/781
Title:
File 36/1919 Pt 1-2 ‘KURDISTAN SITUATION & POLICY’
Scope & Content:
This volume primarily contains correspondence, telegrams, memoranda and reports regarding the political situation in Kurdistan between 1918 and 1920. This volume is separated into two parts: ‘Kurdistan: Situation.’ (IOR/L/PS/10/781/1) ‘Kurdistan: Policy & Future of’ (IOR/L/PS/10/781/2). E...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Oct 1918-4 Feb 1920
Extent:
1 volume (549 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/10/782

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/782
Title:
File 36/1919 Pt 3 ‘KURDISTAN POLICY & SITUATION’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, newspaper clippings, parliamentary notes, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British officials regarding the political situation in Kurdistan, but also contains correspondence from Kurdish representatives and var...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Dec 1919-4 Dec 1922
Extent:
1 volume (295 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/10/815

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/815
Title:
File 1450/1919 ‘Mesopotamia & Kurdistan: Geological Reports on’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and maps and geological drawings, regarding the geological examination of regions in Mesopotamia and the prospect of petroleum [oil] in these areas. Included in the volume are the following reports: ‘MESOPOTAMIA GEOLOGICAL REPOR...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1917-26 Jun 1922
Extent:

1 volume (244 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/10/821/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/821/1
Title:
File 2023/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: Formation of Divisional & Municipal Councils’
Scope & Content:
This item comprises papers relating to deliberations proceeding from an Inter-Departmental Conference meeting, held at the Foreign Office, on Thursday 17 April 1919, following the capitulation of the Ottoman Empire and the Anglo-French Declaration of November 1918. The meeting set out plans for t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1919-12 Aug 1920
Extent:
1 item (34 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/10/833

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 1-4 'IRAQ: KURDISTAN'
Scope & Content:
The volume relates to ‘uprisings’ and violent incidents that took place against British political and military personnel in southern and central Kurdistan, a region which was of strategic importance to the British authorities in Mesopotamia. It comprises four parts (items) as follows: IOR/L/PS/10...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1919-Dec 1921
Extent:
1 volume (286 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/10/962

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/962
Title:
File 301/1921 'MESOPOTAMIA: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Intelligence Reports of Sir Percy Cox, High Commissioner for Mesopotamia [also written as Iraq in this volume], based in Baghdad, covering the period 15 November 1920 to 15 September 1921. They largely relate to: the political situation in Mesopotamia and the surrounding...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1920-31 Oct 1921
Extent:
1 volume (289 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/12/553

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/553
Title:
Ext 5000/41(3) 'Persia - General Situation (Sept. & Oct. 1941)'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to situation in Persia [Iran] following the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August 1941. The discussion in the volume relates to the measures taken by Britain in consultation with the United States of Amer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Sep 1941-10 Nov 1941
Extent:
1 file (231 folios)