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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Language English Place Hadhramaut, Arabian Peninsula, Yemen

1. IOR/L/PS/10/551

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/551
Title:
File 1740/1915 Pt 1-2 'Arabia: Policy in Hadramaut, Yemen'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence and other papers relating to British policy in connection with the Hadramaut (also written Hadhramut and Hadhramaut). The correspondence covers internal affairs, relations with tribal leaders, activities of the Turks and the Imam of Yemen, boundary questions,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
10 May 1915-18 Jul 1919
Extent:

1 volume (419 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/552

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/552
Title:
File 1740/1915 Pt 3 'Arabia: Loan to Sultan of Shehr and Mokalla'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence and other papers concerning loans and other assistance given to the Sultan of Shehr [Al Shihr] and Mokalla [Al Mukalla] in the Hadhramaut. The papers cover: the 1917 loan of 400,000 rupees and a gift of arms and ammunition; the responsibility for the cost of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Oct 1917-15 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (195 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/101
Title:
PZ 2006/34 'The Hadhramaut: Attitude of Ibn Saud towards - shipping at Port of Bir Ali'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between British officials relating to political and religious activity in Hedjaz [Saudi Arabia] and Batavia [Jakarta] by Arab merchants and other notables originating from opposing factions in the Hadhramaut [Hadramawt] region of the Aden Protectorate [Yemen]. Th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Feb 1934-18 Mar 1935
Extent:
1 file (40 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1968

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1968
Title:
Coll 5/22 ‘Proposed air service in the Hadramaut’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence forwarded on to the India Office by either the Colonial Office or the Air Ministry. This correspondence concerns two independent requests for the purchase of aircraft for use in the Hadramaut. The first being a request from Sultan bin Ghalib on behalf of Sayed Bu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1927-22 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2153
Title:
Coll 6/80 'South and South-Western boundaries of Saudi-Arabia'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the disputed south and south-western boundaries of Saudi Arabia. It primarily concerns an expedition to southern Saudi Arabia that was undertaken by Harry St John Bridger Philby in 1936, during which Philby was reported to have entered Yemeni and British territory. Much of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1936-1 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (68 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)