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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Chief Commissioner, Aden, 1932-1937

61. IOR/L/PS/12/2134

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2134
Title:
Coll 6/67(1) 'Boundaries of South-Eastern Arabia and Qatar.'
Scope & Content:
This volume primarily concerns British policy regarding the south-eastern boundaries of Saudi Arabia. It includes interdepartmental discussion regarding the approach that the British Government should take in reaching a settlement with King Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jun 1934-13 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 volume (392 folios)

62. IOR/L/PS/12/2135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2135
Title:
Coll 6/67(2) 'Boundaries of South-Eastern Arabia and Qatar.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns British policy regarding the south-eastern boundaries of Saudi Arabia. It documents preparations for negotiations with the Saudi Government, and includes interdepartmental discussion regarding the approach that the British Government should take in reaching a settlement wi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1934-1 May 1935
Extent:
1 volume (363 folios)

63. IOR/L/PS/12/2136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2136
Title:
Coll 6/67(3) 'Boundaries of South Eastern Arabia and Qatar.'
Scope & Content:
This volume primarily concerns British policy regarding the south-eastern boundaries of Saudi Arabia, specifically those bordering Qatar, the Trucial Shaikhdoms, Muscat, the Hadramaut and the Aden Protectorate. It includes interdepartmental discussion regarding the approach that the British Go...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1935-20 Dec 1935
Extent:
1 volume (411 folios)

64. IOR/L/PS/12/2146

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2146
Title:
Coll 6/73 'The Yemen: Yemeni Nationality Law.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns Yemeni nationality law. It consists of a copy of a translation of an extract from a letter dated 8 August 1935, from the Imam of Yemen [Yaḥyā Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn] to the Acting Resident at Aden. This extract, which was then sent by the Acting Resident to His Majesty's Minist...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Aug 1935-10 Oct 1935
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

65. IOR/L/PS/12/2153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2153
Title:
Coll 6/80 'South and South-Western boundaries of Saudi-Arabia'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the disputed south and south-western boundaries of Saudi Arabia. It primarily concerns an expedition to southern Saudi Arabia that was undertaken by Harry St John Bridger Philby in 1936, during which Philby was reported to have entered Yemeni and British territory. Much of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1936-1 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (68 folios)

66. IOR/L/PS/12/2192

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2192
Title:
Coll 7/24 'Arabia: supply of munitions of war to King Ibn Saud and Imam of Yemen'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence regarding the supply of arms and ammunition to Ibn Sa'ūd and the Imam of Yemen, in the context of the British policy not to favour either side in their territorial dispute. The principal correspondents are the India Office, the War Office, the Foreign Office, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1933-24 Sep 1936
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

67. IOR/L/PS/12/3381

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3381
Title:
Coll 27/19 ‘Passports. Aden Protectorate. Travel documents for British subjects travelling from the State of Shihr and Mukalla to India.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the question of whether Emergency Certificates issued by the State of Shehr (Shihr) and Makalla [Qu'aiti] should be regarded as valid travel documents for entry into India. The correspondence is largely between the Government of India Foreign and Po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1936-23 Nov 1946
Extent:

1 file (18 folios)

68. IOR/L/PS/12/4413

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4413
Title:
Coll 40/13 ‘Royal Family. Coronation of H.M. King George VI. Invitations to the Sultan of Muscat and the Sheikhs of Bahrain and Koweit, and King of the Yemen.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence on the coronation of King George VI. The correspondence is primarily between the following: the Secretary of State for India; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India; an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jul 1936-18 Mar 1938
Extent:
1 file (111 folios)

69. IOR/R/15/2/531

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/531
Title:
‘File 13/26 Refusal of Trading Facilities to inhabitants of Socotra & Mahris: Establishment of Landing Ground at Qishn’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to trading restrictions being placed upon the inhabitants of Al-Mahra [incorrectly written in some parts of the file as Manris; Al-Mahra is in present-day Yemen] and Socotra, in response to the authorities of Qishn refusing the British Government permiss...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1933-8 Mar 1933
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

70. IOR/R/15/2/1894

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1894
Title:
File D/3 Correspondence with Aden regarding Miscellaneous Matters
Scope & Content:
This file concerns an Aden-born twenty-five year old woman, Mariam bint Ahmed, and requests – made both by her brothers in Aden and by her Bahraini husband's son in Bahrain – for her to be repatriated to Aden. Mariam bint Ahmed's divorce, her former husband's death, and her unwillingness to retu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 May 1933-16 Feb 1935
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)