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1. IOR/L/PS/12/445

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/445
Title:
PZ 6512/40 'Statesman's Year Book: Requests for revision of information regarding Persian Gulf etc.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence from Mortimer Epstein, Editor of the Statesman's Year Book, to the India Office, firstly requesting revised information relating to the Trucial Sheikhs, and secondly acknowledging receipt of the revisions sent by J P Gibson, India Office. The file includes a div...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1940-9 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2142

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2142
Title:
Coll 6/69 'Affairs in the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
This file mainly consists of copies of received Colonial Office correspondence relating to political and domestic affairs in the Yemen. Of particular note are copies of two memoranda, forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Governor of Aden (Bernard Rawdon Reilly) and writt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1935-14 Oct 1937
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/18/B368

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B368
Title:
Memorandum by Colonel Cornwallis on the Future Policy of His Majesty's Government with regard to Subsidies to Chiefs of the Arabian Peninsula.
Scope & Content:
Printed memorandum issued by the Eastern (Arabia) Department of the Foreign Office and written by Lieutenant-Colonel Kinahan Cornwallis. The memorandum contains a statement of the policy that should in future be adopted by the British Government in regard to the payment of subsidies to rulers i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1920
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/C131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C131
Title:
Personalities, Arabia
Scope & Content:
The volume is Personalities, Arabia (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April 1917). The volume is an official report on prominent Arab individuals and Arab tribes in the Arabian Peninsula and other parts of the Middle East. The volume contains personal, historical and genealogical info...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

1 volume (185 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/622

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/622
Title:
‘File 22/22 – VOL.II K_A_L_B_A’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a letter in March 1948, from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in London, requesting British recognition of Shaikh Saqr bin Muhammad bin Salim [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Muḥammad bin Sālim al-Qāsimī] as the new Ruler of Ras al Kha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1922-19 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (112 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1865

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1865
Title:
‘File B/9 I (30/9-II) Residency Agent, Sharjah’s News Reports’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a series of bi-monthly news summaries about events in Trucial Oman, for the years 1935 and 1936, compiled by the Residency Agent, Sharjah and sent to the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. The news summaries are also referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1935-18 Dec 1936
Extent:
1 file (418 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/100
Title:
File 5/C Kuwait Najd Boundary
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports, and notes for the period from November 1920 to February 1923 relating to the Kuwait/Najd boundary. The main topics discussed include: The attack on Jahra by the Ikhwan Bahrain Agency Mission to Ibn Sa`ud, 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1920-24 Feb 1923
Extent:
1 volume (231 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/5/101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/101
Title:
File 8/C Philby's Mission to Ibn Sa`ud; Friction between Najd and Kuwait because of British Blockade of Land Trade
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, for the period April 1918 to August 1918 relating to the main topics: Harry St John Bridger Philby's Mission to Ibn Sa`ud. Friction between Najd and Kuwait because of the British blockade of land trade. The volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1918-2 Aug 1918
Extent:
1 volume (191 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/102
Title:
File 12/C I
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the following main topics: Dissatisfaction with Shaikh Salim [Shaikh Sālim al-Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Kuwait, 1918. A proposal to establish British detachment in Kuwait, 1918. A note (ff 34-38) on ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Mar 1918-7 Apr 1920
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/103

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/103
Title:
File 12/C(2) Najd Mission: operation of blockade
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the mission of Harry St John Bridger Philby to Ibn Sa'ud in Najd. Correspondence discusses the operation of the blockade of all land trade to Kuwait. Correspondence includes Philby's handwritten notes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1918-17 Sep 1918
Extent:
1 volume (187 folios)