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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Imperial Government of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918

11. IOR/L/PS/10/473

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/473
Title:
File 3443/1914 Pt 2 'German War: German emissaries to Afghanistan'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the Persian Campaign of the First World War and the movements and activities of the Central Powers in Persia [Iran] between June and November 1915. The correspondence is particularly concerned with German and Ottoman attempts to infiltrate Afghanistan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Jun 1915-21 Nov 1915
Extent:
1 volume (238 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/10/474

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/474
Title:
File 3443/1914 Pt 3 'German War: Afghanistan and Persia; German agents; British troops in East Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the Persian Campaign of the First World War and the movements and activities of the Central Powers in Persia [Iran] between November 1915 and April 1916. The correspondence is particularly concerned with German and Ottoman attempts to infiltrate Afgha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Nov 1915-5 Jun 1916
Extent:
1 volume (167 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/10/475

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/475
Title:
File 3443/1914 Pt 4 'Persia: East Persia affairs; German agents'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the Persian Campaign of the First World War and the movements and activities of the Central Powers in Persia [Iran] between May and November 1916. The correspondence is particularly concerned with finding and capturing German, Ottoman and Austrian age...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
9 Feb 1916-20 Dec 1916
Extent:
1 volume (179 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/10/670

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/670
Title:
File 1323/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters and telegrams related to the temporary administration of Baghdad Vilayet [province] and the question of the type of postage stamps to be used for the civil post office at Baghdad during the British occupation. The correspondence is partic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
26 Mar 1915-18 Dec 1918
Extent:
1 volume (274 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/10/671

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/671
Title:
File 1323/1917 Pt 2-5 ‘Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters, memoranda and telegrams related to the supply of overprinted stamps of Mesopotamia/Iraq. The main issues discussed in the volume are the following: The question of whether to continue using the overprinted Turkish stamps after the declar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Oct 1917-2 Mar 1921
Extent:
1 volume (344 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/10/689

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/689
Title:
File 2813/1917 'MESPOT: SAMARRA ANTIQUITIES'
Scope & Content:
This file chiefly comprises: correspondence; India Office Political and Secret Department Minutes, Draft Papers and Draft Telegrams; copies of letters and telegrams; notes and memoranda; and reports. The file relates mainly to the discussions regarding the disposal of antiquities from Samarra [...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jun 1917-25 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/10/845

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/845
Title:
File 4368/1919 'IRAQ:- ANTIQUITIES LISBON COLLECTION'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises: correspondence; India Office Political and Secret Department Minutes and Draft Papers; covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India (with enclosures); and reports. The file relates to British involvement i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1919-17 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (164 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/18/B222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B222
Title:
Correspondence with the Grand Sherif of Mecca
Scope & Content:
This secret file is a collection of printed correspondence. It contains telegrams between Joshua Milne Crompton Cheetham, Acting High Commissioner at Cairo, and the Foreign Office, letters from and correspondence between Shaikh Abdalla Ibn Hosayn [Abd Allāh ibn al-Husayn] and his father, Hussein...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1914-10 Mar 1916
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/18/B381/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B381/1
Title:
No. 1. Anglo-Turkish Agreement. Collection of documents signed on July 29, 1913.
Scope & Content:
The item consists of a collection of documents signed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Edward Grey) and the Grand Vizier of Ottoman Empire (Ibrahim Hakki Pasha) on 29 July 1913. It contains the following: a convention concerning the establishment of a commission to improve the con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Jul 1913
Extent:

1 item (8 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/20/130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/130
Title:
Report and Proceedings of the Standing Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence on the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The report was printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence, November 1911, and approved on 14 December 1911. It concerns the situation in the Persian Gulf regarding the extent to which Turkish claims aligned with British interests, and engagements already made with the Sheikh of Koweit [Kuwait...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Nov 1911
Extent:

1 volume (43 folios)