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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Sheikh Said, Arabian Peninsula Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/12/2089

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2089
Title:
Coll 6/22 'Yemen: Relations with France. Claim to Sheikh Said.'
Scope & Content:
This file, which consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, concerns relations between France and the Imam of Yemen [Yaḥyá Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn], and French claims to Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd]. Matters discussed in the correspondence include the following: T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4 Mar 1930-9 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 file (70 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2114

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2114
Title:
Coll 6/47 'Yemen: Relations between Italy and the Imam of the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns relations between Italy and Yemen. It largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence discussing the following: Reports in 1936 that the Treaty of Friendship (1926) between Italy and Yemen has been extended until November 1937. Details of negoti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Sep 1926-22 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (91 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2157

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2157
Title:
Coll 6/84 'Yemen: Attitude of Yemeni Govt. towards the Italo-Ethiopian dispute. Policy of H.M.G. in event of Italian occupation of Yemeni territory.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to Italian activities in the Middle East, particularly in the Yemen. The correspondence includes discussion of the following: British policy in the event of the Italians occupying Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd], or any other part of the Yemen. The Yemen's position in the Italo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1934-1 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (348 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2215
Title:
Coll 7/45 'Arabia: question of supply of arms, etc., to King of Yemen from UK'
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding requests received from the King of Yemen for assistance in fortifying Sheikh Said [Ra's Shaykh Sa'īd] and securing Yemen against foreign aggression. The King was concerned over French claims to Perim Island [Jazīrat Mayyūn] and Sheikh Said, and was seeking anti-aircraft and gas ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 May 1939-5 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/4129

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4129
Title:
Coll 35/23 'Arabia: establishment of cable communication between Shaikh Said and Perim'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the re-establishment of cable communication between Sheikh Said and the island of Perim [Yemen], proposed by the ruler of Yemen in 1932, and negotiations with Eastern Telegraph Company Limited. The file contains correspondence between: the Eastern Telegraph Company Limited; th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Jan 1932-26 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B60
Title:
Memorandum on Sheikh Said
Scope & Content:
The memorandum was created based on the re-awakened interest on the part of the French in Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd], and is a collection of information held in the Political and Secret Department of the India Office relating to the territory. It Includes a summary of: the acquisition of Sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Mar 1893
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B110
Title:
A Memorandum on the Possible Occupation by France of Sheikh Said
Scope & Content:
A memorandum written by Edmund Neel, Political and Secret Department, India Office, and an addendum, in which is discussed the possibility of a French occupation of Turkish-held Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd], on the south-western tip of the Arabian Peninsula. A sketch map (f 7) accompanies a r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)