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1. IOR/L/PS/10/243

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/243
Title:
File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of printed correspondence, handwritten correspondence, notes and other papers. This relates to the operation of British Indian post offices in Persia, and in particular in the region known as Arabistan [Ahvāz] by British officials. The file is a direct chronological c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1919
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/300
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, produced in response to the prospect of an oil company backed by German capital taking control of future oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and the implications that such concessions might have on the Anglo-Persian Oi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Jul 1904-4 Sep 1913
Extent:

1 volume (412 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/301

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/301
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/300), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1913-31 Mar 1914
Extent:

1 volume (148 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/302/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/1
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/301), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Mar 1914-25 Nov 1915
Extent:

1 part (184 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/302/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/2
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 4 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to claims for exploratory oil licenses in Ottoman Turkey (including the vilayets of Baghdad, Mosul and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and Syria and Nejd). Principal correspondents include: the solicitors Treherne, Higgins and Company, who represent the oil explor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Apr 1914-15 Sep 1914
Extent:

1 part (87 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/302/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/3
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’
Scope & Content:
A chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’, Part 5 comprises correspondence following the annulment of the 19 March 1914 agreement on oil concessions in Mesopotamia, which discusses the wider implications of the war on oil concessions in Turkey, and antic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1914-23 Aug 1917
Extent:

1 part (29 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/934

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/934
Title:
File 7190/1920 Pt 2 ‘Persia:- Mohammerah. Relations of the Shaikh with Central Govt.’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, telegrams, summaries, reports, notes and other papers concerning British support of the Shaikh of Mohammerah [Shaikh Khaz‘al al-Ka‘bī Mu‘izz al-Salṭanah, Shaikh of Khorramshahr] in the context of the Persian [Iranian] Government’s relationship with the tribes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Oct 1923-17 Jan 1925
Extent:
1 volume (553 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/1000

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1000
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 10 'Oil. Persian Gulf. Bahrain. Refinery at Bahrain.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to oil prospecting being undertaken in Bahrain by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (hereafter BAPCO). The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent in Bahrain; the Chief Local ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1938
Extent:
1 file (272 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/1001

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1001
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 12 'Persian Gulf; oil; Bahrain; acquisition of land on Sitrah Island and reservation of other land elsewhere'
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to oil prospecting being undertaken in Bahrain by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (hereafter BAPCO) and the associated acquisition of land on Sitrah Island. Key topics discussed include the BAPCO plans for the development of an oil stor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1934
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/1002

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1002
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 14 'Persian Gulf: oil; Bahrain; appointment of chief local representative of Bahrain Petroleum Company'
Scope & Content:
The volumes contain letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to the appointment of the Chief Local Representative of the Bahrain Petroleum Company ( BAPCO). The file contains correspondence between BAPCO and the India Office concerning such matters as relevant prior experience and suitability f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1935-1946
Extent:

2 volumes (195 folios)