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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Language English Place Transjordan, Middle East, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/937/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/937/2
Title:
File 7251/1920 Pt 3 'Arabia: Situation and Policy; Agenda for Inter Departmental Committee Meetings'
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume contains correspondence and other papers concerning relations between Nejd, Transjordan, Hejaz, Yemen, and the Idrisi state, as well as policy in Arabia more generally. Correspondence comes from officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, War Office, the Political Resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1920-4 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 item (133 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1033

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1033
Title:
File 450/1922 Pt 1 'Arabia: Nejd-Trans-Jordan dispute: Activities of Ibn Saud's followers; Proposed conference at Koweit'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes, draft papers, and memoranda relating to the delineation of the boundary between the Kingdom of Nejd and Transjordan. The papers deal with matters such as the status of the Jauf [al-Jawf] region, the idea for a Baghdad-Haifa railway, numerous raids and counter raids along...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922-1923
Extent:
1 volume (420 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1034/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1034/1
Title:
File 450/1922 Pt 2 'Arabia: Nejd-Trans-Jordan dispute: Koweit [Kuwait] Conference: Breakdown of Conference; Hostile activites of Nejd tribes'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minute papers, and memoranda relating to proceedings at the 1923-1924 Kuwait Conference. The papers discuss matters dealt with at the conference, such as boundary delineation between Trans-Jordan and the Kingdom of Nejd, compensation for raids, the return of refugee tribesmen, an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1924
Extent:

473 folios

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1125/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1125/2
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 3 ‘Arabia:- Situation 1924. Wahabi attack on Trans-Jordania; Hedjaz - Trans-Jordanian Boundary.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning a Wahabi [Wahhabi] attack on Transjordan (or Trans Jordan [Jordan]) in August 1924. The papers cover: initial reports of an attempted raid by Wahabi troops on Amman on 14 August 1924; the repulsion of the attack by British ground and air forces; Ibn Sau...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1924-7 May 1925
Extent:

1 item (168 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1144
Title:
File 1166/1925 'Arabia: Nejd; negotiations with Ibn Saud regarding Iraq-Nejd question and Trans-Jordan boundary; Sir G Clayton's mission; Bahra agreement, 2nd November, 1925'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, reports, telegrams, a memorandum and minutes between Sultan of Nejd Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the British Representative regarding the negotiations of the Transjordan boundary after the First World War. Related matter...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1925-28 Jul 1927
Extent:
1 volume (378 folios)

6. 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)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/385

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/385
Title:
PZ 3054/40 'Journey of son and two grandsons of Sultan of Lahej to Aden from Egypt via Transjordan'
Scope & Content:
This document is a cypher telegram sent from the High Commissioner for Trans-Jordan [Emirate of Transjordan] to the Secretary of State for the Colonies relating to the potential passage of a son and two grandsons of the Sultan of Lahej through Transjordan on their way from Egypt to Aden.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1940-1 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/1997

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1997
Title:
Coll 5/43 ‘Night flying facilities in the Persian Gulf in connection with the Empire Air Mail Scheme’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, meeting notes (at the Air Ministry on 9 November 1934 and 22 March 1935), and memoranda regarding proposals to introduce night flying across the Persian Gulf as part of the Empire Air Mail Scheme. The focus of the file is on the following routes: Cairo-Karachi a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1935-28 Feb 1936
Extent:
1 file (77 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2067

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2067
Title:
Coll 6/6 'Nejd: Nejd-Transjordan Frontier Raiding. Note from H.M.G. to Ibn Saud.'
Scope & Content:
This volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) regarding reported raids on the frontier between Transjordan and the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1931-22 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 volume (780 folios)

10. 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)