| Description | One box file labelled 'GB Policy Views' containing notes (handwritten and typed); photocopies of India Office Library records, and newspaper clippings:
MS 285/2/1
One folder labelled 'GB Policy: i: GB Policy and Attitudes; ii: Bolshevik Propaganda' containing various handwritten and typed notes and documents, 1917-c 1976
MS 285/2/2
One folder labelled 'GB Persia' containing various handwritten and typed notes and documents, c 1917-c 1976
MS 285/2/3
One folder labelled 'Persia British Policy: After 1917 Revolution, March-July 1917' containing copies of documents from the India Office from 1917 commenting on the Russian Revolution and its effect on Persian politics, c 1917
MS 285/2/4
One folder labelled 'Persia Committee Inter-Dept, July 1917-March 1918 containing a copy of typed notes on Inter-Departmental Conference held at the Privy Council Office, 31 Jul 1917
MS 285/2/5
One folder labelled 'Eastern Committee June 1918-' containing copies of documents from the India Office from 1918, commenting on recent policy in Persia after the Russian revolution, 1918
MS 285/2/6
One folder labelled 'Britain & Persia, 1919 Policy' containing copies of official documents on the Kashgai Rising and British military and political policy in Persia, 1919-1920
MS 285/2/7
One folder labelled 'Nomads' containing a copy of a memorandum by Political Department, India Office, entitled 'Revision of Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907', 1915; two memorandums by George W Buchanan to Edward Grey commenting on the political situation in Afghanistan, Mongolia, and Persia, 1914; copy of army memorandum showing disposition of British forces on 1 Jun 1917 in Persia and the Middle East.
MS 285/2/8
One folder containing an article by Roger Cooper entitled 'Riot and quake: Iran's week of agony', 'Sunday Times Magazine' (12 Nov 1978): 24-40.
MS 285/2/9
One folder containing a copy of an article by James G Allen entitled 'Sir Ronald Thomson and British Policy Towards Persia in 1879', 'Journal of the (Royal) Central Asian Society' (1935): 601-616. |