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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject War (concept)

21. IOR/L/PS/12/528

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/528
Title:
Ext 3703/41 'Reactions in Middle East (expt. Afghanistan) to Russo-German war.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Foreign Office, HM Ambassador at Tehran and the Military Attaché, Tehran, regarding the positive reaction in Iran to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, and describes an attempt by the Secretary of State...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1941-3 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

22. IOR/L/PS/12/1453

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1453
Title:
Coll 1/17 'Aden Defence Scheme: authority by whom regulations governing food control, censorship, etc, should be issued'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes regarding the development of the draft Aden Defence Scheme, and the authority under which the Resident (later Chief Commissioner) of Aden was able to exercise emergency powers, for example relating to censorship, arrest, and control of economic security...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1932-18 Jan 1936
Extent:
1 file (120 folios)

23. IOR/L/PS/12/3896A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3896A
Title:
Coll 30/160(S) 'C.I.D. Sub Committee for questions concerning Middle East: Measures to influence minor powers & Arab States whose assistance might be of value in time of war.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID) Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions concerning the Middle East. The Sub-Committee had been charged by the Committee of Imperial Defence to 'investigate and report on the measures which might be taken, either b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1938-18 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (338 folios)

24. IOR/L/PS/12/3898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3898
Title:
Coll 30/160(3) 'Measures to influence Persia in time of war. Question of supply of railway material to Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply by the Government of India of railway material to the Government of Iran. The supply of such material was seen by the British Government as a means of influencing certain minor powers in the Middle East in favour of the British on the outbreak of war [the Second Worl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1939-10 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

25. IOR/L/PS/12/3949

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3949
Title:
Coll 30/209 'Oil: Protection & destruction of oil installations in the Middle East. Oil Denial Scheme.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns British Government measures to implement an oil denial scheme in the Persian Gulf, by asking oil companies operating in the region to temporarily plug, or permanently destroy existing oil wells, thus denying oil resources to the enemy [during the Second World War]. The oil well...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1942-15 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (182 folios)

26. IOR/L/PS/18/B436

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B436
Title:
HISTORICAL MEMORANDUM ON BAHREIN.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum by John Gilbert Laithwaite, India Office, describing the history of Bahrein [Bahrain] with a focus on the political status of the islands at various periods; the claims to sovereignty over them put forward by Persia at various dates since 1783; and the correspondence and discussions...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1934
Extent:

1 file (25 folios)

27. IOR/L/PS/18/C65

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C65
Title:
The History of Seistan and Lash-Jowain
Scope & Content:
This document was compiled and signed by H Le Poer Wynne (Foreign Department) and covers the history of Seistan and Lash-Jowain [Lāsh-e Juwayn], including the dispute over sovereignty which led to the Anglo-Persian War (1856-7). The document is divided into the following sections: 1. The histo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1870
Extent:

38 folios

28. IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1
Title:
‘A HISTORY OF PERSIA’
Scope & Content:
This file is A History of Persia by Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Molesworth Sykes (London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1915). The file consists of two volumes, containing a historical narrative of Persia [Iran], dating from around 6000 BCE to the signing of the Persian Constitution of 1906 CE. It c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

2 volumes (770 folios)