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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name High Commissioner, Iraq, 1920-1932

61. IOR/L/PS/12/2882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2882
Title:
Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the oil concessions and operations of the Iraq Petroleum Company and the British Oil Development Company in Iraq. It includes: Papers concerning payments due to the Government of Iraq from these companies. Papers of the Committee of Imperial Defence Standing...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1932-18 Sep 1935
Extent:
1 file (89 folios)

62. IOR/L/PS/12/2885

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2885
Title:
Coll 17/23(S) 'Iraq. Attachment of Iraqis to British Consulates abroad for training in consular work.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers mostly relating to the following: the proposal by the Prime Minister of Iraq that Iraqi officials should be employed in British Consulates, for the purpose of training them in consular work until Iraqi Consulates could be established in neighbouring countries to Iraq, an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1927-17 Apr 1930
Extent:
1 file (124 folios)

63. IOR/L/PS/12/2886

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2886
Title:
Coll 17/24 ‘Iraq. Internal. New Iraqi Income Tax Law. Effect on British aircraft and shipping.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers mostly relating to the following: the objections of HM Government to Article 6 of the draft Iraq Salaries and Allowances Tax Law of 1930; and the liability of British aircraft and shipping companies operating in Iraq to income tax under Article 29 of the Iraq Income Tax ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Dec 1930-9 May 1935
Extent:
1 file (182 folios)

64. IOR/L/PS/12/3462

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3462
Title:
Coll 28/56 ‘Persia. Perso-Turkish & Perso-Russian Frontier Affairs. Rowanduz Trade Route.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning the development of trade routes in northeast Persia [Iran], on the Iraq border, with particular focus on routes through Rowanduz (also spelt Rawanduz [Ruwāndiz]) and in Azerbaijan. HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran, Percy L...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1926-27 Oct 1933
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

65. IOR/L/PS/12/4109

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4109
Title:
Coll 35/6 'Arabia: Hejaz-Nejd; wireless stations; postal and telegraph communications with the outside world'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns postal communications in the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd and, later, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The file covers: Desire of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] to establish wireless stations in Hejaz and Nejd, 1926-29 Proposed wireless communicati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1925-17 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (514 folios)

66. IOR/L/PS/12/4114A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4114A
Title:
Coll 35/12 'Kuwait: post and telegraph office; participation of Iraq in Empire Air Mail Scheme'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the Post and Telegraph Office in Kuwait and its development, to sustain the growing oil industry in Kuwait. The file contains: Proposed transfer of the control of the Post Office from Iraq to the Government of India, 1925-29 Proposed abolition of the Iraq Post and Telegraph Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
7 Feb 1925-26 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (543 folios)

67. IOR/L/PS/18/B346

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B346
Title:
Mesopotamia. Proposed Constitution: Telegraphic Correspondence with Baghdad
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, dated July 1920, contains a series of reprinted telegrams in a single collection for the purposes of facilitating the discussions with Sir Percy Zachariah Cox on the proposed constitution for Mesopotamia [Iraq]. It is noted that the series is not complete, but contains al...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1920
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

68. IOR/L/PS/18/B347

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B347
Title:
Mesopotamia. Appointment of Sir Percy Cox as High Commissioner: Instructions of His Majesty's Government
Scope & Content:
This printed report published by the India Office contains two sets of draft instructions approved by the Finance Committee of the Cabinet for Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's personal guidance as High Commissioner for Mesopotamia to give effect to the policy of His Majesty's Government. The first set ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1920
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

69. IOR/L/PS/18/B363

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B363
Title:
Mesopotamia. Establishment of Council of State for 'Iraq.
Scope & Content:
This is a printed document, No. S.D./170A, issued by the Secretary to the High Commissioner for Mesopotamia and intended to be forwarded to all Officers of the British Civil Administration in Mesopotamia. The document is a record of the steps taken by the High Commissioner (Sir Percy Zachariah C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)