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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Iraq, Middle East, Asia

51. IOR/L/PS/12/1997

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1997
Title:
Coll 5/43 ‘Night flying facilities in the Persian Gulf in connection with the Empire Air Mail Scheme’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, meeting notes (at the Air Ministry on 9 November 1934 and 22 March 1935), and memoranda regarding proposals to introduce night flying across the Persian Gulf as part of the Empire Air Mail Scheme. The focus of the file is on the following routes: Cairo-Karachi a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1935-28 Feb 1936
Extent:
1 file (77 folios)

52. IOR/L/PS/12/1999

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1999
Title:
Coll 5/47 ‘Persia, Persian Gulf: Meteorological establishments in Persia and the Persian Gulf – Bushire & Bandar Abbas’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerned with meteorological services in Iran (also referred to as Persia). This includes the abandonment of stations operated by Cable and Wireless Limited at Henjam, Charbar [Chabahar], and Jask; the deputation of an Inspector of Observatories to visit station...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1935-7 May 1938
Extent:
1 file (53 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/12/2038, f 130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2038, f 130
Title:
‘PERSIA’
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies a report titled ‘Air Transport in Persia – 1944 and afterwards’ by Walter Leslie Runciman, Air Attaché at Tehran: see folios 119-129. It shows Persia [Iran] in the centre bounded by Iraq to the East, Afghanistan and Baluchistan to the West, the Caspian Sea in the North, and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1944
Extent:
1 map

54. IOR/L/PS/12/2048

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2048
Title:
Coll 5/84(3) ‘Persian Gulf-Sheikdoms: Anglo-French Air Transit Agreement (Reciprocal Military Air Transit-Rights)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to an Air Transit Agreement being negotiated between the United Kingdom (UK) and France to enable scheduled military aircraft to fly over, and land at airfields within, each other's territories. A number of drafts of this agreement can be found throughout the fil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Jul 1946-26 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (265 folios)

55. IOR/L/PS/12/2088

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2088
Title:
Coll 6/21(2) 'Saudi Arabia: Relations with H.M.G.: Saudi Legation in London and British Minister in Jeddah. Prolongation of Treaty of Jedda.'
Scope & Content:
This file, like the previous volume (IOR/L/PS/12/2087), concerns relations between the British Government and the Government of Saudi Arabia. The file largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, mainly between His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, Sir Reader William...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1935-12 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (379 folios)

56. IOR/L/PS/12/2212

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2212
Title:
Coll 7/42 'Persian Gulf: arms smuggling from Koweit [Kuwait] into Iraq'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding allegations made by the Iraqi authorities that arms and ammunition are being smuggled into Iraq from Koweit [Kuwait]. The principal correspondents are: HM Ambassador at Baghdad (Archibald Clark Kerr, later Maurice Peterson); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1936-23 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (117 folios)

57. 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)

58. IOR/L/PS/12/3351

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3351
Title:
Coll 26/9 'Palestine: Palestine Commission, 1937 and Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Report) 1938: Reactions in the Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the Palestine Royal Commission, the Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Report), and contemporary reactions in the Persian Gulf sheikhdoms [shaikhdoms]. The correspondence is primarily between the Foreign Office, the India Office and the Colonial O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1937-1 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (264 folios)

59. IOR/L/PS/12/3367

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3367
Title:
Coll 27/7 ‘Passports. Pilgrims. Pilgrim passes for Indian pilgrims proceeding to Persia.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to pilgrim passes issued to Indian nationals proceeding to Persia [Iran] from India (via Iraq). The correspondence is largely between the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India and the following: the Government of Bengal, Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1930-28 Jul 1934
Extent:

1 file (20 folios)

60. IOR/L/PS/12/3380

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3380
Title:
Coll 27/18 ‘Passports. Iraq. Passports for Indian pilgrims travelling to Iraq.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to visas for Indian pilgrims travelling to Iraq, including papers concerning the question of whether Indian pilgrims in possession of Pilgrim Passes should be admitted into Iraq without any visa. The main correspondents are as follows: HM Ambassador, Baghdad; ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1935-11 Jan 1937
Extent:

1 file (39 folios)