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1. IOR/L/PS/10/616

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/616
Title:
File 3372/1916 Pt 2 'Arabia: French and Italian policy'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers largely relating to French policy in the Hedjaz [Hejaz] and Arabia, and Anglo-French relations concerning the region. It includes papers relating to the following: The French mission being sent to the Hedjaz under Mustapha Cherchali. The French Military Mission in the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
30 May 1917-11 Dec 1918
Extent:
1 volume (243 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/645

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/645
Title:
File 110/1917 'Arabia: Printed Correspondence.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains miscellaneous printed correspondence received by the India Office from the Government of India, relating to Arabia and the Persian Gulf. The main correspondents are the Secretary of State for India; the British High Commissioner, Egypt; the Political Resident in the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Nov 1916 - 1 Oct 1919
Extent:
1 volume (299 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/880

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/880
Title:
File 488/1920 Pt 1-2 ‘Arabia: General Question of Subsidies to Arab Rulers. Subsidy to Ibn Saud’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to Arabia. Part 1 concerns the general question of subsidies paid to Arab Rulers, and Part 2 concerns the policy of the British Government towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, popularly known as Ibn Saud]. Each part include...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1920-6 Apr 1925
Extent:

1 volume (284 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1273

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1273
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 16 ‘Persian Gulf: Political Control Report of the Warren Fisher Committee.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning political control in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. The first half of the file relates to the inter-departmental Sub-Committee of Political Control of the Persian Gulf Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence. The Sub-Committee on Poli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1929-8 Aug 1939
Extent:

1 file (285 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B247
Title:
British interests in Arabia
Scope & Content:
This memorandum was written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel in January 1917. Its purpose is to explain 'why the exclusion of Italy from Western and Southern Arabia and the Red Sea littoral is important in British interests'. It notes the importance of Arabia lying as it does along two of the main...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B259

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B259
Title:
Correspondence between Britain, France and Russia in regards to Arabia
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, in English and French, between M Sazanof, Ministre des Affaires Étrangeres (Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs); Maurice Paléologue, Ambassadeur de France en Russie (French Ambassador to Russia); Paul Cambon (French Amabassador to the United Kingdom); and Sir Edward Gray, Secre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Apr 1917
Extent:

10 folios

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B272

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B272
Title:
Middle East Committee. Note prepared for meeting of 12th January 1918. Sir M. Sykes's memorandum on the Palestine and West Arabian situation
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a note, dated 10 January 1918, written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh (Political Department, India Office) on a memorandum written by Sir Mark Sykes on the Palestine and West Arabian situation. The note was prepared for a meeting of the Middle East Committee. Shuckburgh comments o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1918
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B381

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B381
Title:
Asiatic Turkey and Arabia
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a series of conventions, agreements, and declarations concerning navigation on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the Turco-Persian boundary, and the transportation of goods by railway in Asiatic Turkey. It is divided into four sections and contains five maps: IOR/W/LPS/18/B3...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Jul 1913-12 Dec 1913
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B387

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B387
Title:
‘Memorandum by the Political Department, India Office, on treaties and agreements between the British Government and the various rulers and chiefs in Arabia and on the Persian Gulf.’
Scope & Content:
The memorandum comprises summaries and précis of the treaties signed between the British Government and the Arab rulers and chiefs on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Persian Gulf. The first part of the memorandum, prepared by J P Gibson and dated 21 July 1927, provides overviews of the various ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1926-21 Jul 1927
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B437

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B437
Title:
Historical Memorandum on the Relations of the Wahabi Amirs and Ibn Saud with Eastern Arabia and the British Government, 1800-1934
Scope & Content:
The file contains a historical memorandum written in response to claims advanced by Ibn Saud to ancestral rights on the eastern boundary of the Saudi Kingdom, and to suggestions put forward by him that at some period in the past arrangements were entered into with his ancestors, the Wahabi Amirs...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1934
Extent:

1 file (32 folios)