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1. IOR/L/PS/10/24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/24
Title:
File 664/1904 'Turkish Arabia: Status of British Protected Persons'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the status of British-protected persons (primarily from the native states of India) within the territory of the Ottoman Empire. The topics discussed in the file include the consular representation of poor British Indian subject...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1911
Extent:
1 volume (201 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/295

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/295
Title:
File 3498/1912 ‘Aden News Letters’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the Aden weekly newsletters for the years 1912 to 1916, which are also referred to as the Aden or Residency weekly political intelligence summaries or diaries and were compiled by the British Political Resident at Aden. They contain a record of current local events, news and i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1912-3 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 volume (295 folios)

3. 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)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B233

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B233
Title:
'THE WAR WITH TURKEY. Memorandum by Political Department, India Office.'
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, dated 25 May 1916, examining the implications of war with Turkey on Great Britain particularly the importance to Germany of a Turco-Ottoman alliance and the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and the corresponding importance of its dissolution to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1916
Extent:

4 folios

5. IOR/L/PS/5/478, ff 180-196

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/478, ff 180-196
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’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 57 of 1853, dated 23 September 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 16 August 1853. The papers relate to affairs at Bagdad [Baghd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1853
Extent:

1 item (17 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/522

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/522
Title:
1914 5094 PARTS 1&2. TURCO-PERSIAN FRONTIER COMMISSION
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, from 1914 to 1918 relating to the delimitation of the Turco-Persian border. It contains two parts IOR/L/PS/10/522/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/522/2. The discussion relates to leave and leave allowances to civil officers and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1917
Extent:
1 volume (196 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/5/478, ff 161-175

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/478, ff 161-175
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’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 55 of 1853, dated 10 September 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 25 July 1853. The papers relate to affairs in Baghdad. The m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Sep 1853
Extent:
1 item (15 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B50

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B50
Title:
Persian Gulf. Limits of Turkish Jurisdiction on the Arabian Coast
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, compiled on 22 October 1888 by E Neel at the Secret and Political Department of the India Office, is a note on the letter from the Foreign Office dated 11 October 1888, Home No. 906.The British Government only recognises the Turkish jurisdiction on the Arabian coast as f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1888
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/415

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/415
Title:
File 4044/1913 Pts 1-2 'Bagdad Railway Negotiations'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains drafts and counter-drafts of the Anglo-German Convention on the Bagdad Railway, plus agreements involving the Bagdad Railway Company, the Ottoman Railway Company, the Anatolian Railway Company, and the Ottoman Government. There is also correspondence regarding the negotiation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1913-1914
Extent:
1 volume (285 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/271, f 251

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/271, f 251
Title:
'SKETCH MAP TO SHEW APPROXIMATELY RAILWAYS IN ASIATIC TURKEY'
Scope & Content:
Map, illustrating railway lines in Asiatic Turkey, to accompany Bagdad Railway No. 1 (1911). Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty, May 1911 (London, His Majesty's Stationery Office). The publication appears on folios 215-252. The map was produced by the Topographical...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1911
Extent:
1 map