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1. IOR/L/PS/10/661/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/661/1
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf:- Lighting & Buoying. Repairs to Lighthouse buildings at Quoin Island & Tamb Island.'
Scope & Content:
This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing repairs and alterations to the lighthouse buildings on Quoin Island and, to a lesser extent, those on Tamb Island (also written in the correspondence as Tanb Island). Most of the part focuses on the details and costs o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Oct 1919-10 Aug 1926
Extent:
1 item (86 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1266/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1266/2
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf Negotiations 1928. Status of Certain Islands in the Persian Gulf.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the status of certain islands in the Persian Gulf. A large proportion of the papers concern the policy to be adopted by the British Government (as decided by the Persian Gulf Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence) in relation to islands in the P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1928-4 Aug 1931
Extent:

1 item (102 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1267

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1267
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf Negotiations 1928. Status of Tamb. (and Abu Musa)’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the ownership and sovereignty of the islands of Tamb and Abu Musa (and Little Tamb and Sirri) in the Persian Gulf, and negotiations for a general treaty between the United Kingdom and Persia [Iran]. The papers mainly consist of correspondence and India Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Jul 1928-29 Mar 1932
Extent:

1 volume (535 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3709

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3709
Title:
Coll 30/1 'Tamb Island: Question of Lease to Persia, Persian Govt's Claim to Tamb'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the disputed ownership of the Tamb (also written as Tanb and Tund) [Greater and Lesser Tumb] islands between Ras al-Khaimah and the Government of Persia. The islands of Abu Musa and Henjam and their status are also mentioned intermittently throughout ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 May 1930-15 Dec 1935
Extent:
1 file (437 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3900

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3900
Title:
Coll 30/163 'Boundaries of Persian territory: Status of the islands Tumb, Little Tumb, Abu Musa, Farur, Little Farur and Sirri.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the territorial status of a number of islands in the Persian Gulf. The issue arose in response to a request from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited to the Foreign Office in 1938 concerning the extent of Iranian (generally referred to as Persian) territory, in order that the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1938-19 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (76 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3975

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3975
Title:
Coll 30/233(S) 'PERSIAN CLAIMS TO TAMB AND ABU MUSA'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the ownership of the islands of Tamb and Abu Musa, following a revival of the Persian Government's claim to both islands in 1948. The British Government's position was that Tamb belonged to the Shaikh of Ras el Khaimah [Ra's al-Khaymah], and Abu Musa to the Shaikh of Sharjah, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1948-23 Jan 1950
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B397

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B397
Title:
Status of the Islands of Tamb, Little Tamb, Abu Musa, and Sirri
Scope & Content:
Document outlining the status of the Islands of Tamb, Little Tamb, Abu Musa, and Sirri. It includes the following: an introduction to the status of the islands; a history of the islands prior to 1887; the occupation of Sirri by Persia, 1887; the temporary Persian occupation of Abu Musa and Tamb,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1928
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B403

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B403
Title:
The Trucial Chiefs, 1908-28
Scope & Content:
Memorandum providing an overview of the external developments which took place in the Trucial States, covering 1908-28, and how problems presented by the States stand at the time of writing. Covering: introduction – to the memorandum itself; Trucial Chiefs; administration; responsibility of pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1928
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)