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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Geographical exploration Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968

1. IOR/L/PS/10/259

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/259
Title:
File 1202/1912 'Arabia:- Travellers. Capt. F. F Hunter. Herr Runkiar (Danish Expedition). Capt Shakespear.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns expeditions by British officers and by the Royal Danish Geographical Society into the interior of Arabia. The papers cover: plans by the Royal Danish Geographical Society to explore the countries around the Persian Gulf, 1909; the refusal of British officials to sanction a p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Sep 1908-5 Mar 1920
Extent:
1 volume (175 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1507

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1507
Title:
Coll 1/70 'Aden. Oil concessions in the Aden Protectorate'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding a request by Petroleum Concessions Limited to be allowed to survey areas of the Aden Protectorate for oil exploration purposes. The file includes a formal request received from the company, plus details of a meeting held between a company representati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Nov 1936-6 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/599

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/599
Title:
‘WILFRED THESIGER’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the movements of Wilfred Thesiger at the end of his second crossing of the Empty Quarter [al-Rub‘ al-Khālī]. Correspondence in the file is between the Political Officer, Sharjah; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident, Bahrain; the Political Agent, Muscat; the Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1948-27 May 1950
Extent:
1 file (61 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/6/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/27
Title:
File XXIII/1 British Consulate Muscat, Travels in Oman, 1894-1900
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding a proposed journey from Muscat across southern Arabia to Hadhramaut in Yemen by the explorer, James Theodore Bent. The correspondence focuses on Bent's request for an Indian surveyor in the employ of the Government of India to accompany him on the tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1894-25 Nov 1894
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/6/29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/29
Title:
File XXIII/5 Travels in Oman. Intending Travellers (1911 to 1922)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials related to two topics: A request made in 1911 by the Danish Legation in London (on behalf of the Royal Danish Geographical Society) for the British Government to support a proposed Danish expedition to Oman and Hadhramaut in Yemen. The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1911-17 Aug 1922
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)