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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Colonial administration

21. IOR/L/PS/10/594

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/594
Title:
File 1323/1916 Pt 1-2 ‘Perso-Baluchistan Frontier’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts. Part 1 concerns social unrest and British administration around the frontiers between British Baluchistan [Pakistan], Persia [Iran], and Afghanistan. Part 2 concerns the sale of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] to Kwash [Khāsh] telegraph line by the British authorities to t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1916-16 Jan 1925
Extent:

1 volume (471 folios)

22. IOR/L/PS/10/617

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/617
Title:
File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1916-17 PORTION'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises mainly printed correspondence, telegrams, summaries, printed reports, notes, receipts, statistical tables, and other papers concerning miscellaneous matters relating to Mesopotamia, including Basra, and also Bahrain. The papers notably cover: The Iraq Occupied Territories ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1915-27 Dec 1917
Extent:
1 volume (723 folios)

23. IOR/L/PS/10/755

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/755
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: administration of policy and situation'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the administration of, and situation in, Mesopotamia [Iraq] following the Asia Minor Agreement of 1916, more commonly known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, between the French and British governments, and the An...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
23 Oct 1918-2 Nov 1919
Extent:
1 volume (326 folios)

24. IOR/L/PS/10/757

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/757
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia: Future Constitution (Question of further announcement of British intentions) (Transfer of Dep[artmen]ts to Civil Administration)'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of drafts, copies, and originals of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and notes relating to the British administration in and future constitution of Mesopotamia [present-day Iraq]. The volume covers British concern about increasing resistance to their presence in the countr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
24 Jul 1919-7 Jun 1920
Extent:
1 volume (299 folios)

25. IOR/L/PS/10/758

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/758
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 4 'Mesopotamia: Constitution; Colonel Wilson's request for p[rivate]p[apers]'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence (copies, drafts and originals), minutes, and memoranda relating to the future constitution and administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The subject of the volume is a request made by Arnold Talbot Wilson, Acting Civil Commissioner in Baghdad, to the India Offic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1920-9 Jul 1920
Extent:
1 volume (27 folios)

26. IOR/L/PS/10/759

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/759
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 5 'Mesopotamia: Administration - Future Constitution'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies, drafts, and originals of correspondence, minutes, and memoranda relating to the administration of Mesopotamia [present-day Iraq, sometimes referred to as Irak in this volume] following the decision by the League of Nations to assign the territory as a British mandate...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1920-15 Nov 1920
Extent:
1 volume (194 folios)

27. IOR/L/PS/10/762

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/762
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 9 'Mesopotamia: Control of'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and notes relating to the question of responsibility for the administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq] and other former Ottoman territories under some form of British control following the First World War. The papers concern a number of matt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 May 1920-29 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 volume (40 folios)

28. IOR/L/PS/10/763

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/763
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 11 'Mesopotamia: Administration. Appointment of Sir P. Cox as High Commissioner. [His Instructions, Announcement in the Press].'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of drafts and copies of correspondence, memoranda, and minutes relating to the appointment of Sir Percy Zachariah Cox as High Commissioner in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The following matters are covered within the volume: Discussion over the wording of a public announcement to be m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1920-25 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 volume (66 folios)

29. IOR/L/PS/10/764

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/764
Title:
File 4722/1918 Pt 12 'Mesopotamia: Creation of a Provisional Council of State'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies and drafts of correspondence, memoranda, and minutes relating to the formation and proceedings of a provisional Council of State in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Several matters are covered by the volume, including: The arrival of the High Commissioner, Sir Percy Zachariah Cox...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1920-1 Mar 1921
Extent:
1 volume (121 folios)

30. 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)