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1. IOR/L/PS/10/57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/57
Title:
File 2764/1904 Pt 2 'Baghdad Railway: General negotiations 1908-10.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1903-1907. The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1910
Extent:
1 volume (391 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/570

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/570
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 7 ‘Mesopotamia; Baghdad Trade &c (Miscellaneous)’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning foreign trade in Baghdad and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq] after Britain’s military invasion during the First World War. The papers cover: various enquiries from businesses in England and elsewhere (the Netherlands, the United States of America) about trade wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1918-1919
Extent:

1 volume (316 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/571

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/571
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 8 ‘Mesopotamia – Trade; Prize Court Proceedings re s.s. "Albistan" &c’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the Prize Court proceedings of the SS Albistan and SS Avristan. Most of the papers relate to the case of the Albistan, which sailed from Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in October 1914 (prior to war being declared between Britain and th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Apr 1917-18 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 volume (163 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/572

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/572
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 9-10 ‘Mesopotamia. Trade with’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to trade with Mesopotamia during and after the First World War: Part 9 concerns the lifting of restrictions on trade between Baghdad and Mesopotamia [Iraq], under the Trading with the Enemy (Occupied Territory) Proclamation of 1915. Part 10 concerns the return or disposal of en...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1918-1922
Extent:

1 volume (356 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/572/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/572/1
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 9 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with- Payments from enemy assets in England to firms in Mesopotamia; payment of dividends of British companies, legacies, &c to residents in Mesopotamia; Messrs. Selim Homsy’s claims against clients in Mosul district; Messrs. Andrew Weir & Co’s claim against Idara Nahrieh’
Scope & Content:
Part 9 comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the lifting of restrictions on trade between Baghdad and Mesopotamia [Iraq], under the Trading with the Enemy (Occupied Territory) Proclamation of 1915: the issue of certificates by the Board of Trade declaring that the wilayats [vilay...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1918-9 Dec 1920
Extent:

1 item (166 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/572/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/572/2
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 10 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with; liquidation of enemy assets &c; claims against enemy assets’
Scope & Content:
Part 10 comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the return or disposal of enemy (Turkish or German) property and other assets in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the Persian Gulf at the end of the First World War. The volume includes: an enquiry from the Hamburg firm Robert Wönckhaus & C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jul 1918-6 Apr 1922
Extent:

1 item (187 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/576

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/576
Title:
File 4744/1915 Pt 1-2 'THE WAR: ARAB BUREAU AT CAIRO. INTELLIGENCE SERVICE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'The War: Arab Bureau at Cairo. Intelligence Service for the Middle East'. Part 1 [IOR/L/PS/10/576/1] concerns the establishment and work of the Arab Bureau at Cairo, 1915-18 (folios 46-238). Part 2 [IOR/L/PS/10/576/2] concerns War Office propos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1920
Extent:
1 volume (240 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/576/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/576/1
Title:
File 4744/1915 Pt 1 'German War - Arabia. The Arab Bureau at Cairo'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the establishment and work of the Arab Bureau at Cairo, a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department, which was set up to co-ordinate Arabian and Islamic intelligence in the face of German and Turkish propaganda, which had been making rapid headway in the region during the F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1915-6 Mar 1918
Extent:

1 item

9. IOR/L/PS/10/576/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/576/2
Title:
File 4744/1915 Pt 2 'Middle East: Intelligence Service for'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern War Office proposals for the co-ordination of intelligence work in Egypt and the Middle East, and reaction to the proposals by the Government of India. The principal correspondents are senior Army officers; and senior officials of the War Office, the India Office, and the For...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1919-5 Apr 1920
Extent:

1 item

10. IOR/L/PS/10/577

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/577
Title:
File 4612/1915 Pt 1-4 'GERMAN WAR - PERSIA FARMAN FARMA FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to British policy towards Persia within the context of maintaining British interests there in the light of the war with Germany. In particular the correspondence details the British financial relationship ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 17 1915-29 Oct 1925
Extent:
1 volume (466 folios)