Iraq
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:
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'Baghdad', North I-38, 1918 - 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND D.143
Scope and Contents
Provisional edition, compiled at Royal Geographical Society and printed by War Office. Printed on paper.
Dates:
1918 - 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers, 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR 8/61
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the deadlock on the Western Front; progress of the war after six months; Russia and Constantinople [later Istanbul, Turkey]; the importance of Alexandretta [Iskenderun, Turkey] as a future base; Mesopotamia [Iraq, and parts of southeast Turkey, southwest Iran and Syria]; lists of war commissions and committees.
Dates:
1915
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - F, 1941-01 - 1941-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/32
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] on criticism of convoy commodores and of the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (3); the Viceroy of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] on concerns about the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (2); Sir Walford Selby [former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna] on uniting the anti-Nazi elements in Austria (2); 1st Lord Sankey; Sir John Anderson [Lord President of the Council,...
Dates:
1941-01 - 1941-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - L, 1926-12 - 1927-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/13
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [Governor of Kenya, later 1st Lord Altrincham] on his visit home, settling a question of port handling in Kenya, and his health; Reginald Leigh [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] on LSA's invitation to join the Academie Diplomatique Internationale; 1st Lord Athlone [Governor-General of South Africa] on the good effect of LSA's visit to South Africa and reaching a compromise with [?] Senator Nicolas de Wet (2); Sir Robert...
Dates:
1926-12 - 1927-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1925-01 - 1925-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/10
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham], on taking up his position as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Kenya, a vote on his salary and his work as Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees (2); Sir Kenneth Anderson; Sir Abe Bailey, supporting LSA's position on Iraq; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister; Sir Otto Beit on appointing Grigg's successor as Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees (2); Gertrude Bell [Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner for Iraq, Sir Henry Dobbs]...
Dates:
1925-01 - 1925-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1928-12 - 1929-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/17
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [Governor of Kenya, later 1st Lord Altrincham] on the report of the commission on East African Closer Union, particularly probable attempts to use the report as an excuse for inactivity and trying to avoid attacks on party lines from the opposition, and also the Government's refusal to use expert advice (2); Stephen Gaselee, Foreign Office; Sir Geoffrey Archer; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on subjects including granting Sir Hamar Greenwood a...
Dates:
1928-12 - 1929-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1933-01 - 1933-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/23
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier Francis Willey]; Eduard Benes [Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs] on LSA's views about the Little Entente and its part in the pacification of Central Europe; 1st Lord Bridgeman; Sir Robert Borden on maintaining Commonwealth unity and reaction in Canada to the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa; Sir George McLaren Brown on the dramatic ["New Deal"] economic policies of Franklin Roosevelt [President of the United States]; [Arthur]...
Dates:
1933-01 - 1933-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence between Trenchard and Sir Samuel Wilson, 1919-02 - 1928-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TREN 3
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: sending naval assistance to Kuwait; reorganization of the Iraqi Army; reasons against an evacuation of troops from Iraq; the use of air power against invasion; naval air policy relating to the Empire.
Dates:
1919-02 - 1928-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence M - Z, 1927-01 - 1927-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/14
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Roderick Macleod (3); 1st Lord Cave, Lord Chancellor, on a memorandum by LSA on House of Lords reform; 1st Lord Midleton [earlier St John Brodrick] on House of Lords reform; Howard Moffat, Premier and Minister of Native Affairs, Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] on the death of Sir Charles Coghlan [former Premier] and on LSA's visit to Rhodesia; John Lockhart, Philip Allan and Company Limited, publishers, on LSA's proposed book on Imperial economics (3); Michael...
Dates:
1927-01 - 1927-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence on observatories, 1894 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 8/93
Scope and Contents
(1) Correspondence regarding Commonwealth and colonial observatories, 1911-1935, including the following material:Correspondence regarding equipment for the Mount Faber Observatory, Singapore, 1928-1930, including a transit instrument and micrometer.Correspondence concerning the closure of the Apia Observatory, Samoa, by the New Zealand Government, 1919-1935.Correspondence on the supply and testing of a 4-inch transit instrument and clock for the Colombo Observatory,...
Dates:
1894 - 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence on the 1952 Eclipse Expedition, 1950 - 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/506
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding the 1952 Solar Eclipse Expedition, including the following items: Correspondence with the bank regarding the transfer of money to Khartoum, 1952.Inventories of equipment, apparatus, food and medicine, and notes and correspondence on packaging, shipment costs and customs dues, 1951-1952. The correspondents include Thomas Cook, the Admiralty and the Sudan Government.Maps of Sudan and Iraq, 1951, showing the path of total eclipse of 25 February...
Dates:
1950 - 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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"East Indian Command", 1916-01 - 1917-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WMYS 7/11/3
Scope and Contents
Written from the British Residency at Cairo and the Residency at Alexandria in Egypt, Viceregal Lodge at Simla in India, Queen's House, Colombo in Sri Lanka, the Yacht 'North Star', The Palace at Khartoum in Sudan and The Berkeley Hotel in London.
Subjects include the difficulties of taking up a new command, the defence of the Suez Canal, the education of their daughter, the Hon. Alice Elizabeth Millicent Erskine-Wemyss, "the kitten" [later Alice Cunnack], the aftermath of...
Dates:
1916-01 - 1917-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Eastern affairs: Constantinople, 1905 - 1912
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 7
Scope and Contents
Reports and correspondence.
Dates:
1905 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD
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Empire Tour speeches: New Zealand, 1927-11 - 1927-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/4/15
Scope and Contents
Annotated texts of LSA's Empire Tour speeches from New Zealand on subjects including co-operation and unity within the Empire, the Imperial Conferences, immigration, trade and economic development, British achievements during and since the war, Imperial defence, comparisons between the Empire and the League of Nations, British foreign policy in Egypt, Iraq, Palestine and the Indian Ocean, the Empire Marketing Board, the economic situation in New Zealand, Imperial Preference, and...
Dates:
1927-11 - 1927-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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European Commission speeches, 2002-07 - 2002-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/2/114
Scope and Contents
Speeches mostly relating to reform of the Commission. Other subjects include Iraq, Britain and monetary union, the European budget, the Common Agricultural Policy and a tribute to Baroness Castle.
Dates:
2002-07 - 2002-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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General papers, 1990-11 - 1990-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/1/166
Scope and Contents
Includes: memorandum from Julie Hall, NK’s Press Secretary, on press strategy in the run-up to the General Election; draft paper on the Oxford East constituency party’s investigation against Robert Maxwell over various union disputes; statement by David Blunkett on stepping up Labour’s campaign profile; briefing for meeting with the European Parliamentary Labour Party; press schedule; rough notes for a meeting on Iraq.
Dates:
1990-11 - 1990-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sub-Series
Gulf War, 1987 - 1991
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/2
Scope and Contents
Papers on Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, chiefly consisting of background information, but also including transcripts of interviews, statements and speeches , particularly for the Gulf War debate, Jan 1991, and papers on Labour's position on the war.
Dates:
1987 - 1991
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Person
Sub-Series
Iraq, 1955 - 1963
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/400-401
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover every aspect of Philip Noel-Baker's very full and varied career and include constituency papers, Labour Party material, extensive sections on domestic and international affairs, peace and disarmament, sport, books and articles, speeches and correspondence.This collection has an 'Associated' section, consisting of material from one or more sources distinct from the main series, potentially including material about, but not created, accumulated or owned by, the...
Dates:
1955 - 1963
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Iraq and Iran, operations in 1940, 1950-08 - 1960-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROSK 4/54
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
[?] Papers used in the official naval history of the Second World War.
Dates:
1950-08 - 1960-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Iraq Currency Board, 1932-01 - 1939-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 9/57
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memoranda and annual reports sent to LSA, chairman of the board, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Kennet [earlier Edward Hilton Young]; Edward Hogg, Adviser to the Iraqi Ministry of Finance (2); Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton].
Dates:
1932-01 - 1939-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
Closed until catalogued.
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Iraq, sheet 2
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND D.152
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-sub-sub class:
Printed by War Office. Printed on paper.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Iraqi Kurds, 1990-11 - 1991-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/48
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on human rights and the humanitarian relief effort for the Kurdish refugees. Includes: briefings for and notes of meetings with Jalal Talabani, Leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and with a delegation from the Iraqi Kurdistan Front; correspondence between NK and John Major, Prime Minister; text of NK’s speech to the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
Dates:
1990-11 - 1991-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Kenya, Malta, Iraq and Uganda, 1925-01 - 1928-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/4/13
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir William Gowers, Governor of Uganda, on malicious rumours being spread about him; 1st Lord Lugard on the rumours about Gowers; Sir John Du Cane, Governor of Malta (1927-31), on subjects including laws against sedition, a press campaign on the anti-Italian policy pursued by 1st Lord Strickland [Head of the Ministry], Nationalist objections to two Trades Union senators, a movement to abolish the Senate, suppression of brothels, deadlock between the Senate and...
Dates:
1925-01 - 1928-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Letters to Lady Wester Wemyss, 1923 - 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WMYS 7/15
Scope and Contents
Written from 92 Elm Park Gardens, the Naval & Military Club, the Army & Navy Club, the Beefsteak Club, the Marlborough Club and the Orleans Club in London, Wemyss Castle in Fife, the Hotel du Louvre & de la Paix in Marseilles, SS Mooltan, Heliopolis House Hotel in Cairo, Baghdad in Iraq, the Chine Hotel in Bournemouth and the Damascus Palace Hotel in Syria.
Subjects include early air travel, Wemyss' work as President of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA), ...
Dates:
1923 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.