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1. IOR/L/PS/10/821/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/821/2
Title:
File 2023/1919 Pt 2 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: Proceedings of BAGHDAD Municipal Council’
Scope & Content:
This item comprises papers relating to the establishment of the Municipal Council in the province of Baghdad, in Mesopotamia [Iraq] under the British colonial administration. Papers comprise an India Office Political Department coversheet, memoranda and an enclosure in typescript, notably coverin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1919-28 Jan 1920
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/821/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/821/3
Title:
File 2023/1919 Pt 3 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: Proceedings of BASRA Municipal Council’
Scope & Content:
This item comprises papers relating to the establishment of the Municipal Council in the province of Basra [also written as Basrah], in Mesopotamia [Iraq] under the British colonial administration. Papers comprise an India Office Political Department coversheets, minute papers, memoranda and encl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1918-12 May 1920
Extent:
1 item (37 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/821/7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/821/7
Title:
File 2023/1919 Pt 7 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: Proceedings of DIWANIYAH Divisional Council’
Scope & Content:
This item comprises papers relating to the establishment of the Divisional Council at Diwaniyah, in Mesopotamia [Iraq] under the British colonial administration. Papers comprise India Office Political Department coversheets, memoranda, and enclosures in print, typescript, and manuscript, notably ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1920-7 Apr 1920
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/919

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/919
Title:
File 5876/1920 ‘Mesopotamia:- King for. Question of suitability of Feisul; French protest against Feisul; Feisul proclaimed “King of Iraq”; Treaty with Feisul’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the election of Sherif Feisal [Fayṣal al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, also written as Faisal and other variations in the volume] as King of Iraq, and negotiations leading to the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1922. Specific topics discussed include:...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Jul 1920-1 Jan 1925
Extent:

1 volume (497 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/561

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/561
Title:
Ext 5000/41(11) 'Persian Situation. Miscellaneous Reports'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of miscellaneous reports regarding internal affairs in Persia (later referred to more frequently as Iran). Most of the correspondence is between His Majesty's Ambassador in Tehran (Sir Reader William Bullard) and officials of the Foreign Office. Other prominent correspondents...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Farsi, and French
Date Range:
26 Sep 1943-4 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (571 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/1224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1224
Title:
Ext 5000/47(2) 'Persian situation: miscellaneous reports'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers that discuss Anglo-American perspectives on domestic Iranian politics during 1948, in the run-up to the Iranian Constituent Assembly election of 1949. The majority of the papers are secret diplomatic dispatches between various British diplomats based in Washington, Londo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1948-8 Feb 1949
Extent:
1 file (175 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2887

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2887
Title:
Coll 17/25 'Iraq. Internal. Miscellaneous (including finance)'
Scope & Content:
The file mainly consists of papers relating to Iraq, mostly copies sent to the India Office of letters and telegrams from the British Embassy at Baghdad (Sir Francis Humphrys, George Ogilvie-Forbes, Archibald Clark Kerr, Oswald Scott, Maurice Peterson, Sir Hugh Stonehewer-Bird, Sir Basil Newton,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jan 1934-7 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (134 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3418

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3418
Title:
Coll 28/21(2) ‘Persia. Azerbaijan: Persia, Russian and Persia – Turkish Frontier.’
Scope & Content:
The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/21 ‘Persia; Azerbaijan; Persia-Russian & Persia-Turkish Frontier.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3417). It chiefly comprises copies of telegraphic correspondence exchanged between British officials in Tehran and Tabriz, and the Foreign Office in Lond...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 May 1946-15 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (377 folios)