Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
IOR/L/PS/10/302/3
- Record Id:
- 041-000545192
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000287.0x000029
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100035703953.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/302/3
- Title:
- File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’
- Scope & Content:
-
A chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’, Part 5 comprises correspondence following the annulment of the 19 March 1914 agreement on oil concessions in Mesopotamia, which discusses the wider implications of the war on oil concessions in Turkey, and anticipation of post-war agreements. The principal correspondents are: the Assistant Undersecretary to the Foreign Office (Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen); Secretary of the Political Department of the India Office (Sir Arthur Hirtzel); the Director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC, Charles Greenway).
The correspondence includes:
- discussion of the elimination of German interests in Turkey and Arabia;
- the split between Britain and France of former Ottoman territories;
- existing APOC claims in the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad;
- Shell Royal Dutch Group’s claims in the Mesopotamian oil concessions.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000545189
041-000545192 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/302 : File 3877/1912 Pt 3-5 ‘Asiatic Turkey: Oil Concessions’
IOR/L/PS/10/302/3 : File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0301]/040-000545189[0003]/041-000545192
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
-
1 part (29 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100035703953.0x000003
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1914
- End Date:
- 1917
- Date Range:
- 19 Mar 1914-23 Aug 1917
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- P 3877/1912 Pt 5
- Arrangement:
-
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited, 1909-1954
Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, 1898-1955
Foreign Office, 1782-1968
Royal Dutch Shell, oil company, 1907- - Subjects:
- Concessions, Oil, Iraq
First World War (1914-1918)
Imperialism
Petroleum industry - Places:
- Mesopotamia, Asia Minor
