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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/2061-2170 Name Minister for Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia, 1930-

1. IOR/L/PS/12/2064

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2064
Title:
Coll 6/4(1) 'Asir: Assumption by Ibn Saud of control of internal administration of Asir.'
Scope & Content:
This volume mostly contains copies of Foreign Office correspondence (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) relating to the assumption by Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] of control of the internal ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov 1930-12 Oct 1933
Extent:
1 volume (548 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2065

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2065
Title:
Coll 6/4(2) 'Asir: Relations between Saudi Arabia and the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
This volume mostly contains copies of Foreign Office correspondence (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) relating to the strained relations between Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the Imam o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1933-19 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 volume (394 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2105
Title:
Coll 6/38 'Saudi-Arabia: Position and National Status of British subjects and protected persons.'
Scope & Content:
This file, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, relates to the position and national status of British subjects and protected persons residing in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The correspondence includes discussion of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1931-13 Feb 1934
Extent:
1 file (85 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2107

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2107
Title:
Coll 6/40 'Hejaz-Nejd. Changes in Government Appointments.'
Scope & Content:
This file, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, discusses details of appointments in the Government of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). Also included are profiles of prominent figures in the Hejazi and Nejdi kingdom. Related matters of discussion include the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1928-30 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2119

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2119
Title:
Coll 6/52 'Saudi Arabia: Anti-Saudi activities of Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence discussing the reported activities of Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh [Sayyid Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Dabbagh, former Hashimite finance minister in the Hejaz] and other persons referred to as 'anti-Saudi consipirators'. It documents their movements in political exil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1932-6 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 file (159 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2121
Title:
Coll 6/54 'Saudi-Arabia: Limits of Saudi Arabian territorial waters.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the delimitation of Saudi Arabia's territorial waters. It documents reservations held by the British regarding the Saudi Government's claim that its territorial waters extend as far as four miles from the shore (as opposed to the three-mile limit favoured by the British). The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1932-8 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2123

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2123
Title:
Coll 6/56 'Saudi-Arabia: Prevention of use of Bahrein and Kuwait as bases for activities against Nejd (Ibn Hithlain)'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to an Ajman chief named Khalid ibn Hithlain [Khālid bin Muḥammad bin Ḥithlayn, also transliterated as Khalid bin Hathlain in the file], who is suspected of planning anti-Saudi activities. The correspondence documents the efforts of the British authorities – at the Saudi Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1933-31 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2124
Title:
Coll 6/57 'U.S.A.: Saudi Relations with U.S.A.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States, and features the following principal correspondents: His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires to Jedda (Albert Spencer Calvert); His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires to Washington (Ronald Ian Campbell); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1931-15 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2133
Title:
Coll 6/66 'Saudi-Arabia: Saudi-Transjordan Frontier'
Scope & Content:
This file primarily concerns British policy on the question of the Saudi-Transjordan frontier, specifically the frontier between Transjordan and Nejd, as initially outlined in the Hadda Agreement of 1925. The correspondence includes discussion of the following: The reported disaffection of cer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Apr 1934-6 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2138

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2138
Title:
Coll 6/67(5) 'Boundaries of South Eastern Arabia and Qatar (Khor al Odeid)'
Scope & Content:
This volume primarily concerns British policy regarding the eastern and south-eastern boundaries of Saudi Arabia, specifically those bordering Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Muscat (i.e. the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman). Much of the correspondence relates to British concerns that oil companies operating ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1937-11 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 volume in 2 parts (391 folios)