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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Emir of Transjordan, 1921-1946

1. IOR/L/PS/12/37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/37
Title:
PZ 5443/31 'Transjordan: political situation reports'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to monthly reports of the British Resident, Amman, on the political situation in Transjordan from July 1931 to October 1934. The reports discuss a range of political matters including: the relationship of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1931-4 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (253 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2084

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2084
Title:
Coll 6/18 'Arabia: Migration of Hejazis from Hejaz to Transjordan'
Scope & Content:
This file is concerned with the migration of Hejazis from Hejaz to Transjordan. The file consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, which discuss rumours of disaffection among Hejazi tribesmen, and of their desertion from the Hejaz to Transjordan. The correspondenc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1931-4 Apr 1932
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2096

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2096
Title:
Coll 6/30 'Revolt in Northern Hejaz: Hejaz-Nejd – Transjordan Frontier Situation. Hejaz Relations with Egypt and Transjordan.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns the British Government's response to the presence of anti-Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] rebels in northern part of the Hejaz during May-July 1932, reportedly led by Sheikh Hamid Ibn Rafadah [Shaikh Hamid Ibn Rifadah]. The volume mostly cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May 1932-21 Jul 1932
Extent:
1 volume (469 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2112
Title:
Coll 6/45 'Nejd-Transjordan Frontier Affairs.'
Scope & Content:
This volume, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, concerns affairs on the Nejd-Transjordan frontier and relations between Amir Abdullah [ʿAbdullāh bin Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī] and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. Much o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1933-21 Mar 1935
Extent:
1 volume (515 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2166
Title:
Coll 6/93 'Syria – Situation in after the capitulation of France 1940: Allied operations against :–'
Scope & Content:
This file documents British policy and Allied operations regarding Syria and Lebanon, following the defeat of France in June 1940. It documents preparations for a British-Free French military campaign in Syria [Operation Exporter] and concludes with correspondence regarding armistice terms, foll...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Jun 1940-28 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (500 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3942

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3942
Title:
Coll 30/202 ‘Persian Gulf. Photographs of Notabilities (Sheikhs &c) (used for propaganda purposes)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the use of illustrations for propaganda purposes during the Second World War. It includes correspondence regarding a request from the Ministry of Information for photographs for the Middle East edition of a proposed fortnightly War P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Aug 1938-20 Jan 1941
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/797

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/797
Title:
ESTABLISHMENT OF BRITISH LEGATION IN TRANSJORDAN.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a Foreign Office circular noting that as a result of the Anglo-Transjordan Treaty [Treaty of London] of 22 March 1946, which recognised Transjordan as a fully independent state with Amir [Emir] Abdulla [‘Abdullāh] bin Hussein as sovereign, responsibility for British policy h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)