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Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, High Commission and Consulate, Iraq: General Correspondence
| Reference: | FO 624 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, High Commission and Consulate, Iraq: General Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series contains general correspondence from the British embassy and consulate in Iraq. Also includes files of the Baghdad High Commission, 1921 to 1932. |
| Date: | 1921-1964 |
| Arrangement: |
By year and then by original file number. The item-level catalogue references reflect these file numbers and hence gaps occur in the sequence. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Iraq, 1968-1991 Foreign Office, Consulate, Iraq, 1932-1968 Foreign Office, Embassy, Iraq, 1932-1967 Foreign Office, Embassy, Iraq, 1968-1968 Foreign Office, High Commission, Iraq, 1921-1932 |
| Physical description: | 241 boxes and files |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Iraq formed a part of the Ottoman Empire from 1534 until it was captured by British forces in 1916. After a period of military government, Britain administered a League of Nations mandate from 1919 until a provisional Iraqi government was established in 1920, and in 1921 Iraq became a kingdom. Initially from 1921 British representation in Iraq was through a high commission, but in 1932 this was converted to an embassy. Diplomatic relations between Britain and Iraq were suspended from 1967 to 1968, following the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, though consular relations continued. The British embassy in Iraq was closed in January 1991, and diplomatic relations between Britain and Iraq were broken off in February of that year. |
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