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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Language English Place Taif, Arabian Peninsula, Asia

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)