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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Shiraz, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/18/C137C

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C137C
Title:
Shiraz
Scope & Content:
The memorandum outlines how circumstances in Southern Persia have led to the British reinforcing their consular guards at Bander Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], Bushire, Isphanan [Eşfahān], and Kerman. The focus is on reinforcement of the guard at Shiraz, and in particular, an attack on a British carav...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1912
Extent:
4 folios

2. IOR/L/PS/18/C125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C125
Title:
'Memorandum on the Situation in Southern Persia'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum outlines the development of policy proposals for ensuring the security of British subjects in Persia from 1905-1912. This includes the consideration of the following: the dispatch of a force from India to occupy parts of Southern Persia, an increase in the strength of consular gua...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1912
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/646

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/646
Title:
File 179/1917 ‘Persia: famine relief‘
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the famine that affected Persia [Iran] during the First World War (specifically the years 1917 and 1918) and attempts made by British officials in Persia to alleviate the effects of famine. The file includes: reports from British officials of famine co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1916-14 Sep 1918
Extent:
1 volume (161 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/589

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/589
Title:
File 860/1916 Pt 1-3 'PERSIA: SHIRAZ AND ISPAHAN CONSULATES'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the consular appointment at Shiraz, the Ispahan consulate, and the Shiraz consulate accounts. Correspondents include the Under-Secretary of State, India Office; the Under-Secretary of State, Foreign O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1928
Extent:
1 volume (557 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1106/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1106/1
Title:
File 443/1924 Pt 2 'Persia: Situation 1926-1930'
Scope & Content:
The item comprises correspondence, memoranda and minutes relating to political affairs in Persia [Iran]. The correspondence consists largely of telegrams and letters sent by the British Minister in Tehran, Sir Percy Lyham Loraine (from November 1926, Sir Robert Henry Clive), or the Chargé d'Affa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
24 Dec 1925-16 Sep 1930
Extent:
1 item (407 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/C126/2, f 763

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C126/2, f 763
Title:
Plan of Neighbourhood Shiraz
Scope & Content:
The map sheet is one of seven maps included in IOR/L/PS/20/C126/2. It shows the area surrounding the city of Shiraz. The location of the British Consulate and the positions occupied by British Indian troops and the South Persia Rifles are indicated. Portrays relief by form lines and rock dra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921
Extent:
1 map sheet

7. IOR/L/PS/10/197

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/197
Title:
File 6/1912 Parts 1-2 Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to insecurity in southern Persia, particularly around Shiraz. A lack of central authority in the region had led to lawlessness along many of the roads, including that between Bushire and Shiraz. The papers cover the British respon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 volume (489 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/C234, f 194

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C234, f 194
Title:
‘Shiraz. Plan of the Neighbourhood.’
Scope & Content:
This map is one of fourteen map sheets included in IOR/L/PS/20/C234. It shows the area surrounding the city of Shiraz. The location of the British Consulate and the perimeter patrolled by Indian troops are indicated. Portrays relief by form lines, cultivation, roads, buildings, and settlements....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1929
Extent:
1 map sheet

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3531

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3531
Title:
Coll 28/118 ‘Persia. Shiraz – Consular diaries.’
Scope & Content:
Consular diaries describing affairs in Shiraz and the surrounding area of Fars Province, Persia [Iran]. The diaries were submitted on a fortnightly basis (monthly from November 1945) by the British Consul at Shiraz. They cover the period of the Second World War, the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1942-27 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (361 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/728

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/728
Title:
File 299/1918 Pt 2 'Persia - policy; Shiraz situation; Bushire operations'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to policy on the political and military situation in Shiraz, and Bushire military operations in the period 1918-1920. Topics discussed in the volume include: Situation at Shiraz as recorded in the telegrams Situatio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 May 1918-15 Apr 1920
Extent:
1 volume (297 folios)