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41. IOR/L/PS/12/3898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3898
Title:
Coll 30/160(3) 'Measures to influence Persia in time of war. Question of supply of railway material to Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply by the Government of India of railway material to the Government of Iran. The supply of such material was seen by the British Government as a means of influencing certain minor powers in the Middle East in favour of the British on the outbreak of war [the Second Worl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1939-10 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

42. IOR/L/PS/12/3949

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3949
Title:
Coll 30/209 'Oil: Protection & destruction of oil installations in the Middle East. Oil Denial Scheme.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns British Government measures to implement an oil denial scheme in the Persian Gulf, by asking oil companies operating in the region to temporarily plug, or permanently destroy existing oil wells, thus denying oil resources to the enemy [during the Second World War]. The oil well...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1942-15 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (182 folios)

43. IOR/L/PS/18/B436

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B436
Title:
HISTORICAL MEMORANDUM ON BAHREIN.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum by John Gilbert Laithwaite, India Office, describing the history of Bahrein [Bahrain] with a focus on the political status of the islands at various periods; the claims to sovereignty over them put forward by Persia at various dates since 1783; and the correspondence and discussions...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1934
Extent:

1 file (25 folios)

44. IOR/L/PS/18/C65

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C65
Title:
The History of Seistan and Lash-Jowain
Scope & Content:
This document was compiled and signed by H Le Poer Wynne (Foreign Department) and covers the history of Seistan and Lash-Jowain [Lāsh-e Juwayn], including the dispute over sovereignty which led to the Anglo-Persian War (1856-7). The document is divided into the following sections: 1. The histo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1870
Extent:

38 folios

45. IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1
Title:
‘A HISTORY OF PERSIA’
Scope & Content:
This file is A History of Persia by Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Molesworth Sykes (London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1915). The file consists of two volumes, containing a historical narrative of Persia [Iran], dating from around 6000 BCE to the signing of the Persian Constitution of 1906 CE. It c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

2 volumes (770 folios)

46. IOR/R/15/1/617A-B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/617A-B
Title:
File 79: Second World War
Scope & Content:
The files and volumes contain correspondence pertaining to emergency legislation, regulations, and precautions put into place in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and the Trucial Coast during the Second World War. The correspondence is between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1939-1947
Extent:
2 files and volumes (323 folios)

47. IOR/R/15/1/707

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/707
Title:
File 79/44 I (S 80) War Emergency Legislation
Scope & Content:
The file deals with the issue of the supplementary judicial powers that would be required by the British administration in the Persian Gulf in the event of war, and includes the following papers: papers dated October 1937 - July 1938 concerning the question of war emergency legislation in the Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1937-31 May 1939
Extent:
1 volume (218 folios)

48. Mss Eur F231/26, ff 17-24

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/26, ff 17-24
Title:
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, August 2 1855’
Scope & Content:
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the Governor General of India (14 June 1855, Number 4), the President in Council (16 June 1855, Numbers 36-37) and the Government of Bombay (26 June 1855, Numbers 46-47). The amount of detail for eac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 August 1855
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

49. Mss Eur F231/26, ff 45-54

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/26, ff 45-54
Title:
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, August 30 1855’
Scope & Content:
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the President in Council (17 July 1855, Numbers 40-43) and the Government of Bombay (26 and 28 July 1855, Numbers 53-54). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The letters from the P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1855
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

50. Mss Eur F231/26, ff 55-66

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/26, ff 55-66
Title:
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles Sept 18 1855’
Scope & Content:
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the Governor General of India (6 and 8 August 1855, Numbers 6-7), the President in Council (8 August 1855, Numbers 44-45), and the Government of Bombay (13 August 1855, Number 55). The amount of deta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)