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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Foreign relations

41. IOR/L/PS/12/2994

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2994
Title:
Coll 20/34 'Muscat: Relations with Sultan of Muscat'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, and minutes relating to relations between the Sultan of Muscat and other powers, including the British. Included in the file: numerous notes and reports by the Political Agent in Muscat on the Sultan's relations with the Americans (folio 3), the tribes of the interior ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1939-3 Mar 1945
Extent:
1 file (46 folios)

42. IOR/L/PS/12/3403

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3403
Title:
Coll 28/8 ‘Persia; Diaries; Sistan & Kain, April 1927 – 1933’
Scope & Content:
Printed copies of monthly reports submitted by the British Consul at Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn] (Clarmont Percival Skrine; Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly). The reports provide information on: the region’s trade; locust observations and movements (occasionally appearing as an appendix to the main rep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1927-25 Oct 1933
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)

43. IOR/L/PS/12/3514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3514
Title:
Coll 28/103 ‘Persia. Perso Russian Relations’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers, some marked Most Secret, concerning relations between the Soviet Union and Persia [Iran]. Much of the file concerns the British Government’s concerns about Soviet interference and influence in Persia, particularly at the end and in the aftermath of the Second World War...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1940-16 Aug 1946
Extent:
1 file (92 folios)

44. IOR/L/PS/12/3943

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3943
Title:
Coll 30/203 ‘Persian Gulf. Qatar – Proposed engagement of an “adviser on foreign affairs” by the sheikh.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to suspicions that Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī], Ruler of Qatar, desired to obtain an Iraqi adviser on foreign affairs, and objections to this by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the India Office, and the Fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1940-13 Nov 1941
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

45. IOR/L/PS/18/B99

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B99
Title:
'NEJD EXPEDITION PRECIS.'
Scope & Content:
Précis of the 1871-1872 Turkish Expedition to Nejd [Najd], compiled by Philip Durham Henderson, Under Secretary to the Foreign Department, Government of India, March 1872. The précis has been divided into sections which discuss: Origin of the Expedition; First report of an intended expedition; D...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1872
Extent:

1 file (42 folios)

46. IOR/L/PS/18/B181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B181
Title:
British relations with Turkey in the Persian Gulf. Memorandum on Lieutenant-Colonel Cox's telegram reports in Government of India's telegram of 1 December 1910.
Scope & Content:
This memorandum concerns British relations with Turkey in the Persian Gulf and was written by Frederic Arthur Hirtzel in December 1910. The immediate question it addresses is 'the desirability of concluding a treaty with a Sheikh or Sheikhs of the El Katr [Qatar] peninsula as a bulwark against T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1910
Extent:
5 folios

47. IOR/L/PS/18/B199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B199
Title:
'MEMORANDUM RESPECTING THE NAVIGATION OF THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES.'
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by Richard William Brant and Edward Parkes of the Foreign Office, Apr 1913 regarding navigation on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The memorandum is divided into four parts: Historical Memorandum respecting the navigation of the Mesopotamian rivers. The memorandum describes ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Apr 1913
Extent:

1 file (42 folios)

48. IOR/L/PS/18/B215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B215
Title:
Sherif of Mecca.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a confidential printed report entitled 'Sherif of Mecca'. The report contains transcriptions of correspondence, a statement by a messenger (described below), and notes relating to Sherif Hosayn, the Sherif [Shereef] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī], particularly in terms of his re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

49. IOR/L/PS/18/B233

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B233
Title:
'THE WAR WITH TURKEY. Memorandum by Political Department, India Office.'
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, dated 25 May 1916, examining the implications of war with Turkey on Great Britain particularly the importance to Germany of a Turco-Ottoman alliance and the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and the corresponding importance of its dissolution to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1916
Extent:

4 folios

50. IOR/L/PS/18/B391

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B391
Title:
‘British political relations with Koweit.’
Scope & Content:
The memorandum, prepared by John W Field of the Foreign Office and dated 29 March 1922, is an historical overview of relations between the British Government and the Shaikh of Kuwait during the period 1897 to 1921. The first paragraph of the memorandum suggests that it was compiled in response to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Mar 1922
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)