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1. IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 154-166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 154-166
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, [Bombay Secret Letter] No. 12 dated 2 February 1856. The enclosures are dated 10-25 January 1856. The papers comprise three letters from Brigadier William Marcus Coghla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1856
Extent:
1 item (13 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 247-266

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 247-266
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 17 dated 16 February 1856. The enclosures are dated 5 December 1855-16 Feburary 1856. The primary correspondents are Brigadier William Marcus...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1856
Extent:
1 item (20 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1115
Title:
File 1707/1924 ‘Arabia:- Jeddah Situation Reports. (1924-1930)’
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly contains printed copies of despatches from HM Agent and Consul, Jeddah, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, enclosing reports on the situation in the Hejaz (also spelled Hedjaz in the file) [now a region of Saudi Arabia], from January 1924 to December 1930, and relat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1924-18 Mar 1931
Extent:

1 volume (445 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1124
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 1 ‘Arabia:- Situation 1924; Wahabi attack on Hedjaz. Capture of Taif & defeat of Hedjaz Army. Abdication of King Hussein.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning the invasion of the Hedjaz [Hejaz] by Wahabi [Wahhabi] forces associated with the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and the subsequent abdication of the King of Hedjaz, Amir Hussein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāsh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Aug 1924-6 Jan 1925
Extent:

1 volume (419 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1127/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1127/3
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 9 ‘Arabia:- Nejd - Hedjaz hostilities 1924-25. Wahabi massacres at Taif 1924. Compensation for British subjects for losses sustained through Taif atrocities.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and reports relating to the massacre of the inhabitants of Taif during the Wahabi [Wahhabi] invasion of the city in September 1924. The papers specifically concern claims for compensation made by British subjects in Taif during the massacres. They include a number of eyewitness acc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1926-15 Jun 1926
Extent:
1 item (42 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/564

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/564
Title:
File 61/11 I (D 41) Relations between Nejd and Hejaz
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to relations between Najd and the Hejaz. The majority of the correspondence is between Reader Bullard, the British Agent in Jeddah, the Political Residency in Bushire, the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Agency in Kuwai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1923-6 Nov 1924
Extent:
1 volume (295 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/78

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/78
Title:
File 1/3 Major Head:- Political. Subject:- Relations of Akhwan with Neighbouring States.
Scope & Content:
The file relates to Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] (also referred to Ibn Sa'ud), Sultan of Najd (also referred to as Nejd), particularly in terms of relations between Najd (also referred to as the Akhwan [Ikhwān] and Wahabis [Wahhabis]) and neighbouring states. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
14 Feb 1924-21 Oct 1926
Extent:
1 volume (269 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/638

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/638
Title:
‘File 25/2 Saudi-Yemen Treaty’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of four separate communications from the British Legation at Jedda, enclosing translated summaries and copies of the Treaty of Taif, agreed between the Saudi ruler ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd), and the Yemeni ruler Yaḥyā Muḥammad Ḥamī...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jul 1934-11 Sep 1934
Extent:
1 file (40 folios)