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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Persia, Asia

751. IOR/L/PS/18/C125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C125
Title:
'Memorandum on the Situation in Southern Persia'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum outlines the development of policy proposals for ensuring the security of British subjects in Persia from 1905-1912. This includes the consideration of the following: the dispatch of a force from India to occupy parts of Southern Persia, an increase in the strength of consular gua...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1912
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

752. IOR/L/PS/18/C128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C128
Title:
'Trans-Persian Railway'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum considers whether or not the British Government should support the development of a Trans-Persian Railway linking Europe to India. To this end it examines the potential benefits, and who (Britain, Germany, Persia, or Russia) stands to gain/lose the most from the project; it looks ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1913
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

753. IOR/L/PS/18/C131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C131
Title:
Memorandum by Mr. Parker respecting Railway Construction in Persia
Scope & Content:
The memorandum considers whether British participation in the proposed Trans-Persian Railway would be in Britain's interests. To this end it considers possible advantages/disadvantages to British trade, finance, and her strategic/political interests. The appendix (folio 32) contains an extract ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Jan 1913
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

754. IOR/L/PS/18/C133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C133
Title:
Trans-Persian Railway
Scope & Content:
The memorandum — signed by Lieutenant-General Percy Lake, Chief of the Indian General Staff — considers whether Britain should accept Russian demands that the proposed Trans-Persian Railway should be routed via Kerman. It examines the potential strategic advantages to Russia, the consequent pote...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1913
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

755. IOR/L/PS/18/C137

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C137
Title:
Memoranda on Persia: (a) Gendarmerie, (b) [Anglo-Persian] Loan, (c) Shiraz, (d) Meshed [Mashhad]
Scope & Content:
The file contains the following memoranda: C137A 'Gendarmerie', f 40; C137B 'Loan', ff 41-42; C137C 'Shiraz', ff 43-46; C137D 'Meshed', ff 47-51. The memoranda are written by Sir Arthur Hirtzel.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1913
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

756. IOR/L/PS/18/C143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C143
Title:
Letter (Secret No. 27) from Austen Chamberlain to Charles Hardinge, Governor General of India in Council, with enclosures
Scope & Content:
The memorandum consists of a copy of a letter from Austen Chamberlain to the Governor General of India and its enclosures. The purpose of the letter being to forward recent discussion — within the British Government — concerning the defence of the oil fields and pipelines of the Anglo-Persian Oi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1915
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

757. IOR/L/PS/18/C145

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C145
Title:
Political Situation in Persia, the North-West Frontier, Afghanistan, and Aden
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is divided up into four sections and a conclusion. The first (folios 125-130) provides an update on the political situation in Persia, and considers how advantageous/disadvantageous it is to British interests, with specific updates on the following places: Isfanhan [Eşfahān], Fars...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1916
Extent:

1 file (16 folios)

758. IOR/L/PS/18/C149

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C149
Title:
'Persian Expenditure: the "half and half" arrangement'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum provides a brief outline of the development of the 'half and half arrangement'; the principle by which British expenditure in Persia was divided between the British (UK) and British Indian Exchequers. It notes situations where the question of this division has emerged between 1901...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

759. IOR/L/PS/18/C154

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C154
Title:
Persia: Memorandum Respecting the Revision of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a Foreign Office memorandum (author unknown), followed by an annex written by Charles Murray Marling, British Minister at Tehran. The file concerns the revision of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. The convention divided Persia into three areas: a Russian sphere in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1915
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

760. IOR/L/PS/18/C155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C155
Title:
Memorandum. Regarding our future relations with Persia, with special reference to the extension and maintenance of British influence, and to the system of British Consular representation in Southern Persia.
Scope & Content:
This memorandum, written by Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Travers O'Connor, concerns the new subdivision of Persia into two spheres of influence – Russian and British – with the present neutral zone falling into the British sphere. The memorandum considers what system of Consular or other...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1916
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)