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Series
Foreign Office: Consulate General, Meshed: Monthly Accounts of Secret Service Payments
Catalogue reference: HD 2
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HD 2
This series comprises one volume which was kept by the Consulate-General in Meshed and is mainly an account book, with some operational notes, about payments made from the secret vote by various Indian political officers appointed to the post of...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HD 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Consulate General, Meshed: Monthly Accounts of Secret Service Payments
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1886-1892
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises one volume which was kept by the Consulate-General in Meshed and is mainly an account book, with some operational notes, about payments made from the secret vote by various Indian political officers appointed to the post of Consul General at Meshed, Persia.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Meshed, Persia, 1807-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Middle East
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- The operations mentioned in this file have been treated in detail in an article by L P Morris, 'British Secret Service Activity in Khorassan 1887/1908', published in The Historical Journal, Vol 27, No 3, 1984, pp 657/75.There are a number of books in English about 'The Great Game'. The subject is also covered by Gerald Morgan in an article 'Myth and Reality in the Great Game', published in Asian Affairs, Vol LX (New Series, Vol IV, Part I, February 1973.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8665/
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