Coll 6/75 'Institutions in Arabia receiving financial support from H.E.H. the Nizam of Hyderabad.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to institutions in the Hejaz (later Saudi Arabia) that have received or have been offered financial support from the Government of the Nizam of Hyderabad. The file features the following principal correspondents: the Resident at Hyderabad, the Foreign Secretary to the Governme...
Coll 7/10 'China (Yunnan): Export of arms to China via Burma'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding a request from the Governor of Yunnan Province to transport arms, ammunition and planes to China via Burma [Myanmar]. The materials consisted of British surplus war stock, and were supplied by Arnhold & Company Limited. The correspondence is between...
The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/10 ‘Persia. Diaries; Meshed Consular Jany 1931 – May 1940. Khorassan Political 1934 – May 1940. Khorassan Fortnightly Reports’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3406), and contains political diary reports, submitted fortnightly (and then monthly from late 19...
Coll 30/202 ‘Persian Gulf. Photographs of Notabilities (Sheikhs &c) (used for propaganda purposes)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the use of illustrations for propaganda purposes during the Second World War. It includes correspondence regarding a request from the Ministry of Information for photographs for the Middle East edition of a proposed fortnightly War P...
Coll 35/13 'Persian Gulf: public wireless telegraph station at Sharjah'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the establishment of a wireless telegraph station at Sharjah. The file contains agreements with the ruler of Sharjah for the establishment of an air station by Imperial Airways, and correspondence related to the opening of a wireless telegraph station at Sharjah. The file is ...
Coll 37/105 'Travellers. Muscat: entomological and botanical expedition. Dr H. Scott and Mr E. B. Britton.'
Scope & Content:
The papers in the file relate to the topic of travellers in the Arabian Peninsula. Although the file's title specifies travellers to Muscat (Dr Hugh Scott and Mr Everard Baldwin Britton) the file only has one folio (folio 3) relating to these two individuals who were undertaking an entomological...
Papers respecting the Protection to be granted to Persons of Persian Origin born in India
Scope & Content:
The memorandum consists of printed papers on the subject of whether persons of Persian origin born in India are entitled to protection as British subjects. The question arose from the fact that Persia did not recognise British nationality in persons of Persian descent. In particular, it referenc...
‘[Persia and Persian Gulf] Concessions (existing and prospective, in which the Political Department has been interested recently)’
Scope & Content:
This file contains handwritten (and in one case, typewritten) notes on a number of concessions relating to Persia and the Persian Gulf, in which the India Office's Political Department held an interest. The concessions are listed at the beginning of the file as follows: 1. Euphrates and Tigris n...
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915
Scope & Content:
Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood. Part 1A contains an 'Introd...
Confidential printed abstracts of letters received by the India Office from the Government of India, and from senior officials in certain areas outside India, during the year 1864. The letters are dated 9 January 1864-31 December 1864. The abstracts are numbered 1-136 and each have one of the fo...
