Coll 28/1 ‘Persia. Treaties & Relations with Foreign Powers. Treaties with Czechoslovakia, Norway, Germany, Finland, France, U.S.A., Belgium, Denmark, Latvia, Switzerland, Hungary, Japan.’
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Papers reporting on various treaties and agreements signed between the Persian [Iranian] Government, and other foreign powers. The agreements and related papers were sent by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India, accompanied by a cover note. T...
Coll 28/85S (1) ‘Persia. Abadan and S. W. Persian oilfields; Protection of British interests.’
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Papers relating to strikes and social unrest amongst workers on the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s (AIOC) oilfields in southern Iran (frequently referred to as Persia throughout the file), and the AIOC refinery at Abadan. The file’s principal correspondents include: the British Ambassador at Tehran...
Coll 28/87 ‘Persia; Railways; Mirjawa-Duzdap section of Duzdap Railway. Road Communications between Persia & India’
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Papers relating to the railway line running from Duzdap [Zahedan] via Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] in Iran, across the border to Nok Kundi in India (now Pakistan). The first section of the file contains papers dated December 1934 to November 1941 (ff 111-184), chiefly exchanged between HM Envoy Extraordi...
Coll 44/26 ‘War. (Defense, Protective and other Measures) Censorship restrictions in the Persian Gulf.’
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This file contains correspondence relating to censorship restrictions on telegrams in the Persian Gulf, during the Second World War. The correspondence discusses: The Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file) branch of Cable and Wireless receiving orders from Head Office not to send or accep...
Report on Sur. By Major G. P. Murphy, I.A., Indian Political Department, Political Agent, Muscat
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Report on Sur by Major Gerald Patrick Murphy, Political Agent of Muscat, dated 9 October 1928. It is divided into the following sections: I. – 'Geographical Description of Sur' – including an introduction to the tribes who inhabit it; II. – 'Historical Summary of the Bani Bu Ali' – including th...
['Pre-Emption'] Agreement... between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom... and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited
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The file is concerned with a 'pre-emption' agreement between the British Government and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited, which relates to the commercial agreement obtained by the petroleum company for drilling for oil in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the district of Dhofar...
Memorandum. Regarding our future relations with Persia, with special reference to the extension and maintenance of British influence, and to the system of British Consular representation in Southern Persia.
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This memorandum, written by Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Travers O'Connor, concerns the new subdivision of Persia into two spheres of influence – Russian and British – with the present neutral zone falling into the British sphere. The memorandum considers what system of Consular or other...
‘HAL-AL-NAFT, QISHM ISLAND. Scale, 2 inches = 1 mile. Topography by Commr. Watford Taylor R.N. Geology approximate only, (alluvium omitted)'
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A 2-inch topographical map prepared by Commander W Taylor R N and the officers of the R I M S Palinurus. Their map is mentioned as having been of great assistance to the Admiralty Oil Commisson who surveyed the area in 1913, in the ‘Geological report on some of the oil localities of Persia and th...
‘View up the Tiban N. from Lijma, showing Jabal Warwa.’
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Black and white reproduction of an illustration showing a view of the Tiban valley [Wādī Tiban] from Lijma [Al Lijmah], with the peak of Jabal Warwa in the distance. Human figures standing in and alongside the river provide scale to the scene.
A War Office map, dated January 1907. The map shows the following railway lines: British; French; Anglo-Franco-German; the Baghdad Railway System; the Anatolian Railway; Turkish Railways; Egyptian 'State' Railways; and Russian Railways. The map also marks out the Ordu Territorial Districts [co...
