Name: Foreign Office, 1782-1968 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/381
Title:: File 11/32 III Palestinian Arab Students
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding the employment of Palestinian teachers in the Middle East, primarily in government service in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. This correspondence is between officials at the Political Agency in Muscat, the Foreign Office, the Political Residency in B...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 4 Jan 1950-30 Aug 1950
Extent:: 1 file (202 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/392
Title:: File 11/44 Leading Personalities in Iraq, Iran & Saudi Arabia
Scope & Content:: This file contains copies of the following Foreign Office documents: 'Leading Personalities in Persia, 1947' (folios 3-20) 'Leading Personalities in Iraq, 1947' (folios 21-36) 'Leading Personalities in Saudi Arabia, 1948' (folios 37-47).
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 27 Jun 1947-19 Jul 1948
Extent:: 1 file (46 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/397
Title:: File 11/46 Publicity in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence between officials at the India Office, the Government of India's External Affairs Department and a number diplomatic posts in the Persian Gulf including the Political Agency in Muscat. The correspondence discusses British Government propaganda efforts (usually r...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 11 Oct 1944-18 Jan 1948
Extent:: 1 file (155 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/411
Title:: File 12/5 ECONOMICS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Scope & Content:: The file title contains a misspelling: 'Economics' for 'Economies'. The file consists of a Foreign Office circular dated 24 November 1947 entitled 'Economies on Communications: Report'. The report contains recommendations for economies on telegrams and bag services (mail).
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 Nov 1947
Extent:: 1 file (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/12070
Title:: Table of distances through Afghanistan
Scope & Content:: A table of distances in miles between 37 locations in Afghanistan listed in alphabetical order. Printed at the Foreign Office, 7/7/1905. Stamped Committee of Imperial Defence.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1905
Extent:: 1 sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/Z/R/15/1/1-10
Title:: Indexes, Registers and Filing Guides
Scope & Content:: The indexes, registers and filing guides contain lists of the subject files created by the Residency in the Persian Gulf between circa 1880 and 1947, including all those created under the auspice of the A and B Series, and Confidential Office. Each index is typewritten, but features numerous hand...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1941-1954
Extent:: 10 volumes and files (1033 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur D604
Title:: Papers of the Marquess of Hartington (later 8th Duke of Devonshire) as Under-Secretary, War Office 1863-66; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1870-74; Secretary of State for India 1880-82; Secretary of State for War 1882-85
Scope & Content:: Hartington Collection: papers of Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquis of Hartington (later 8th Duke of Devonshire) (1833- 1908), Under-Secretary, War Office 1863-66, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1870-74; Secretary of State for India 1880-82, Secret ary of State for War 1882-85, comprising six volume...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1863-1903
Extent:: 64 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111-112 Series 102
Title:: Lord Curzon, Foreign Secretary 1919-24: the Near and Middle East: general
Scope & Content:: This series of files consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, maps, and other papers relating to the settlement of the former Ottoman territories in the Middle and Near East following the First World War. A number of countries are concerned, including Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, the...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1893-1924
Extent:: 9 files (544 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/69
Title:: Foreign Office Papers: Persia
Scope & Content:: This file comprises printed Foreign Office correspondence on Persia [Iran]. It consists of two volumes: Mss Eur F111/69A: Despatches dated 18 December 1891-30 June 1897 (ff 1-203) Mss Eur F111/69B: Despatches dated 7 July 1897-22 September 1898 (ff 204-414).
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18 Dec 1891-22 Sep 1898
Extent:: 2 volumes (422 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/359/2
Title:: ‘Confidential. Persia’
Scope & Content:: This part consists of a printed summary of British policy regarding Persia, from 1834 to 1904, featuring extracts from Foreign Office correspondence. Also included are extracts from speeches given in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Parliamentary Under-S...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1904
Extent:: 1 file (56 folios)

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