Tag: Iraq Archives and archivistsCataloguing CO 730: Opening up perspectives on early 20th-century IraqFriday 25 November 2022This November, a group of three volunteers have finished a cataloguing project working on...Records and researchCataloguing the Middle East Mandates: Restarting the projectThursday 8 July 2021Back in 2018, we planned a project to catalogue part of the Colonial Office...Records and researchBritain and Assyrian refugees after the First World WarTuesday 16 June 2020This blog post is part one of three in our Refugee Stories series for...Records and researchArchaeology and the Second World War in IraqFriday 1 March 2019A new law on antiquities was approved in Iraq in 1936. Drafted by Sati...Archives and archivistsCataloguing the Middle East mandates in the 1920sWednesday 1 August 2018With the help of volunteers, to whom we are extremely grateful, we are undertaking a series...Records and researchThe other battle of SamarraFriday 18 August 2017In April 1917 the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force captured Samarra. The authorities made a discovery...Records and researchHess, hot dogs and haute cuisineThursday 20 July 2017We're looking at culinary episodes in the files: prison table manners in Spandau, haute...Records and researchDecolonising archaeology in Iraq?Tuesday 27 June 2017The ‘Arpachiyah Scandal’, involving Agatha Christie’s husband Max Mallowan, was a first step in...Records and researchFiles from 1989 and 1990: Kuwait, condolences and acid houseFriday 30 December 2016Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet files from 1989 and 1990 have been released today...Records and researchThe beginnings of the Iraq MuseumTuesday 15 November 2016A new museum has opened in Basra - this took me back to the...Records and research‘I call it lunacy’: spelling squabbles within British governmentFriday 11 December 2015It is always comforting to realise we’re not the only ones dealing with trivial...