Middle East Committee. Note prepared for meeting of 12th January 1918. Sir M. Sykes's memorandum on the Palestine and West Arabian situation
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The file consists of a note, dated 10 January 1918, written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh (Political Department, India Office) on a memorandum written by Sir Mark Sykes on the Palestine and West Arabian situation. The note was prepared for a meeting of the Middle East Committee. Shuckburgh comments o...
The papers mainly relate to the British-led invasion of Afghanistan. They chiefly comprise copies of reports by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Burnes, Envoy to Kelat, to William Hay Macnaghten, Envoy and Minister at the camp of Shah Shoojah [Shāh Shujā’ al-Mulk Durrāni], as forwarded to John P...
‘LETTERS FROM PERSIAN GULF WITH INDEX, JAN-JULY 1873’, Vol 22
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The volume consists of despatches tothe Duke of Argyll, Secretary of State for India, from Edward Charles Ross, ActingPolitical Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 11 January-7 August 1873. Thedespatches contain enclosures consisting of correspondence sent and received bythe Acting Political Res...
File 3104/1915 Pt 2 ‘German War: conquered territory: status: question of trading; looting, etc., of goods by Turks’
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Correspondence and papers concerning trade in those parts of Mesopotamia [Iraq] under British military administration during the First World War. Subjects covered include: the resumption of trade between Britain and traders at Basra; claims by British firms for the losses of goods looted or dest...
File 2879/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Suleimanieh Outbreak’
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This item relates to the seizure of the ‘reins of government’ (f 283) in Suleimaniyeh [As Sulaymaniyah, also spelled Suleman Iyeh in this item], south Kurdistan, 25 May 1919, during an uprising led by Sheikh Mahmud [Shaikh Maḥmūd Barzanjī], and British military operations leading to the British M...
PZ 701/1935 Question of Continuance of Pension of Naoum Abbo of Basra
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The file contains correspondence relating to the issue of whether a pension paid from 1918 to 1923 to Mr Naoum Abbo of Basra, an Iraqi national, should be continued. The correspondence includes: Letters and copies of letters between the India Office and Mackrell, Ward and Knight, including a co...
PZ 3537/36 Muscat: allowance to Saiyid Tarig bin Taimur bin Faisal
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The file concerns the financial position of Saiyid Tarig bin Taimur bin Faisal [Sayyid Tariq bin Taimur bin Faisal], the son of Taimur bin Faisal [Āl Sa‘īd, Taimur bin Faisal] (Sultan of Muscat and Oman, 1913-1932). It consists of correspondence regarding a maintenance allowance. The main corre...
Coll 15/3(2) 'Abolition of Capitulations in - Montreux Conference, 1937.'
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The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to reform of the Egyptian prison system and treatment of European prisoners in Egyptian prisons. The file features the following principal correspondents: the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Viscou...
Coll 30/110(1) 'Oil: Oil concessions on the Trucial Coast.'
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The file concerns negotiations over the granting of oil concessions to companies with a significant British interest by a number of states on the Trucial Coast: Dubai, Sharjah, Ras-al-Khaimah, Abu Dhabi, and Ajman. The negotiations were initially with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited (APOC)...
Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part II)
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A memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 1 September 1879. The document is a continuation of 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part I)' (IOR/L/PS/18/B19/1) and broadly addresses...
