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1. IOR/L/PS/12/2845-2902

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2845-2902
Title:
Political (External) Collection 17: Iraq
Scope & Content:
This collection consists of files mainly relating to the administration of Iraq, relations between Iraq and the United Kingdom, and relations between Iraq and neighbouring states and other nations, during the period of the British Mandate (1921-1932), independence (1932-1941), and the subsequent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1921-1948
Extent:

46 files and 12 volumes (15,176 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2853

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2853
Title:
Coll 17/8(1) 'Shaikh of Koweit: Date Gardens of the Sheikh in Iraq'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of extensive correspondence, memoranda and reports regarding the Faddaghiyeh Estates of the Shaikh of Kuwait, changes made to their tax-exempt status, and lawsuits regarding their ownership. The records provide details of the lawsuits brought against the Shaikh of Kuwait in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish
Date Range:
17 Aug 1932-31 Jan 1934
Extent:
1 volume (721 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2876

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2876
Title:
Coll 17/16(5)(S) 'Settlement of the Assyrians'
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding areas for the possible resettlement of Assyrians residing in Iraq and Syria following the Second World War (1939-1945). Consisting of correspondence between the Foreign Office, the India Office, and the Viceroy of India, regarding the possibility of resettlement in Northern Baluc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jul 1945-2 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2900

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2900
Title:
Coll 17/38 'Iraq. British Consulates in Basra.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a carbon copy of one letter from the Foreign Office to the Secretary of the Admiralty, dated 26 January 1942 (sent by the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under Secretary of State for India), informing the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that the status ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1942-2 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2888

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2888
Title:
Coll 17/26 'Iraq. Army.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the Iraqi armed forces, mostly concerning the introduction of conscription in Iraq under a system of National Service. The file also includes papers regarding the military policy of the Government of Iraq, and the concern of the chief of the Iraqi General Sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1933-21 Jun 1939
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2902

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2902
Title:
Coll 17/40 'Iraq. Basra Consulate-General Monthly Summaries'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of copies of monthly summaries from the British Consulate-General at Basra, for March, April, and May 1947, which were sent to the India Office by the Foreign Office. The summaries cover the following: the political and tribal situation in Basra; labour; the press; personalit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 May 1947-28 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2877

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2877
Title:
Coll 17/17 'FO Annual Reports, 1932-1938, 1947. Annual review of events 1939-1942. Political Review 1943-1944'
Scope & Content:
File containing reports submitted by HM Ambassador at Baghdad to the Foreign Office, copies of which were sent to the India Office for information. Comprising: Annual Report on Iraq for the years 1932-1938. Reviews of the situation in Iraq, for the years 1939-1944. Copy report by Captain H M Jac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1933-7 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (240 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2889

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2889
Title:
Coll 17/27 'Iraq. Medical services'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the desire of the Government of Iraq to engage an expert for a few months to reorganise the health service of Iraq (and the subsequent decision of the Iraqi Government not to proceed with the recruitment of this expert). The papers mostly consist of India O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1936-8 Jun 1936
Extent:
1 file (41 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2849

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2849
Title:
Coll 17/5 'Iraq. Relations with Turkey'
Scope & Content:
The file contains the following reports submitted by HM Ambassador to Turkey, Sir George Russell Clerk: Report on the visit of the Prime Minister of Iraq (General Nuri Pasha) to Turkey, to discuss frontier delimitation, the Mosul Oilfields, the Iraqi policy towards the Kurds, French attempts at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1930-24 Jun 1937
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2847

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2847
Title:
Coll 17/3 'Iraq. Oudh Bequest'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India, the Office of the High Commissioner for Iraq, and Saiyid Kalbe Abbas Naqvi, Honorary Secretary of the Waqf Section of the All-India Shia Conference. The correspondence concerns the administration of the Oudh Bequest Fund, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jun 1931-18 Oct 1935
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)