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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Mesopotamia, Asia Minor Digitised Content No

1. IOR/L/PS/6/692, ff 269-280

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/692, ff 269-280
Title:
Messopotamia, Ruins of Babylon: Memoir and plans of the - By Commander Selby, Indian Navy.
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 65 of 4 July 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Bo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1859-4 Jul 1859
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/6/693, ff 46-73

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/693, ff 46-73
Title:
Persian Gulf, Babylon: Maps, sketches etc. description of the Ruins of -.
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch Volume 21 of 23 May 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1858-23 May 1859
Extent:
1 item (28 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/6/693, ff 74-108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/693, ff 74-108
Title:
Persian Gulf, Babylon: Maps, sketches etc. descriptive of the ruins of -.
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 50 of 23 May 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Bo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1858-13 May 1861
Extent:
1 item (35 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/6/734, ff 206-208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/734, ff 206-208
Title:
Maps & plans of Mesopotamia by Commander Selby
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 55 of 9 August 1867, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jun 1867-9 Aug 1867
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/742

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/742
Title:
File 2447/1918 'Antiquities Mesopotamia: Preservation of Historical Ruins. (Campbell Thomson and Hall Collection of Antiques)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the preservation of ruins of historical interest in Palestine and Mesopotamia [Iraq] after the First World War. The papers notably cover the following: Arrangements for British specialists and archaeologi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1918-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (336 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/773

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/773
Title:
File 5655/1918 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: refugee camp at Baqubah (1918-1919 papers)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British and French officials regarding the Christian (mostly Assyrian) refugees in the refugee camp at Ba’qubah [also written Baqubah] in Mesopotamia, and their possible repatri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Dec 1918-29 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 volume (256 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/775

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/775
Title:
File 5655/1918 Pts 3-4 'IRAQ:– ASSYRIAN REFUGEES.'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British officials regarding the refugees in the refugee camp at Baqubah [also written as Ba’qubah, Ba’quba and Baquba] in Mesopotamia [approximately corresponding to present-day...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Nov 1919-30 Mar 1922
Extent:

1 volume (335 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/821

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/821
Title:
File 2023/1919 Pt 1-13 ‘MESPOT:- DIVL. & MUNICPL. COUNCILS.’
Scope & Content:
The volume relates to negotiations surrounding the formation of new administrative districts and the composition of ruling authorities, divided into either municipal or divisional councils, in Mesopotamia [Iraq] under the British colonial administration. Discussions follow on from the capitulatio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1918-17 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 volume (269 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/869

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/869
Title:
File 6665/1919 Pts 2, 4, 5 and 6 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: FINANCE’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to the financial affairs of the British administration in Mesopotamia. It consists of the following four parts: Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/869/1, located at ff 398-434) Part 4 (IOR/L/PS/10/869/2, located at ff 280-397) Part 5 (IOR/L/PS/10/869/3, located at ff 121-27...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1920
Extent:

1 volume (434 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1
Title:
‘A HISTORY OF PERSIA’
Scope & Content:
This file is A History of Persia by Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Molesworth Sykes (London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1915). The file consists of two volumes, containing a historical narrative of Persia [Iran], dating from around 6000 BCE to the signing of the Persian Constitution of 1906 CE. It c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

2 volumes (770 folios)