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036-000544688 Place Iraq, Middle East, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/517

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/517
Title:
File 4097/1914 Pt 6-7 'Mesopotamia'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the assignment of new staff to the administration of Mesopotamia or Iraq upon its occupation during the First World War. The majority of the papers contain correspondence between British civil commissioners in Cairo or Baghdad and discuss the possible assignm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1917-19 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 file (348 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/24
Title:
File 664/1904 'Turkish Arabia: Status of British Protected Persons'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the status of British-protected persons (primarily from the native states of India) within the territory of the Ottoman Empire. The topics discussed in the file include the consular representation of poor British Indian subject...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1911
Extent:
1 volume (201 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/212

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/212
Title:
File 211/1912 'Turkish Arabia Summaries'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a monthly report Summary of events in Turkish Iraq for the period November 1911 to July 1914. Some reports cover more than one month. Each report was prepared by the Political Resident in Turkish Arabia and Consul General at Baghdad. The reports cover a wide range of politic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1911-Jul 1914
Extent:
1 volume (198 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1071

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1071
Title:
File 2325/1922 ‘Iraq: administration. ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY NEGOTIATION 1930-’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, drafts, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding different aspects of negotiation and the creation of the Anglo-Iraqi treaty. The papers notably cover: Negotiations, alterations, and presentations of the Treaty itself between Iraq and British Go...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1922-8 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (731 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/272

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/272
Title:
File 1846/1912 Pt 1-2 'Turkey in Asia: Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and draft agreements relating to the establishment of the Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission in Ottoman Iraq. The files discuss the Commission's proposed functions on regulating trade and traffic at the Shatt al Arab estuary, but mostly discuss the governing conv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1912-1914
Extent:
1 file (321 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/756

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/756
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 2 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: SITUATION’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the administration of and situation in Mesopotamia [Iraq] after the Agreement of 1916 between the French and British governments and the self-determination of Mesopotamia. The papers notably cover: The arg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1919-6 Aug 1920
Extent:
1 volume (256 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/515

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/515
Title:
File 4097/1914 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia: administration; personnel; military officers appointed to civil administration'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains requests for skilled personnel from British civil and military authorities in newly occupied territory in Iraq written between 1916 and 1920, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Government of India. The papers primarily consist of letters from Basra or Bagh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1916-4 Feb 1920
Extent:
1 volume (346 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/513

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/513
Title:
File 4097/1914 Pt 1 'Basra administration'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the civil administration of Basra and its environs after its takeover by British forces during the First World War, such as the city's police force. Other topics covered in the papers include the importation of Indian Staff for the new administration, the sup...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1915
Extent:
1 file 281 (folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/962

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/962
Title:
File 301/1921 'MESOPOTAMIA: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Intelligence Reports of Sir Percy Cox, High Commissioner for Mesopotamia [also written as Iraq in this volume], based in Baghdad, covering the period 15 November 1920 to 15 September 1921. They largely relate to: the political situation in Mesopotamia and the surrounding...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1920-31 Oct 1921
Extent:
1 volume (289 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/514
Title:
File 4097/1914 Pt 2 'Mesopotamia: administration; personnel; appointments of civilians [from India] to the Civil Administration'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between administrators in British-occupied Basra, and the Government of India relating to obtaining new civil staff for British-occupied territory in Iraq. This includes requests to obtain political officers as well as senior civil engineers required during the i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1915-8 Apr 1919
Extent:
1 file (177 folios)