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1. IOR/L/PS/10/1167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1167
Title:
File 351/1926 ‘Arabia: Nejd: Employment of British airmen by Ibn Saud Hejazi Air Force’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, mainly Foreign Office despatches received from Jedda, relating to the creation of the Hejaz Air Force by Ibn Saud, with the assistance of the British Government and British air personnel. The main correspondents are the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Gove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1926-18 Jul 1931
Extent:

1 volume (700 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1242
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 11 'Arabia: Iraq-Nejd Frontier Affairs: Ibn Saud's Request for Arms etc, Saudi Debts to H.M.G.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply of arms and ammunition to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and Nejd, by the Government of India in 1929, to enable him to suppress potential trouble with the Ajman tribe. The papers go on to record the attempts...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1929-9 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (485 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1245
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 14 'Nejd-Koweit: Proposals for a comprehensive settlement between Ibn Saud & the Sheikh of Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the attempts of the British Government to mediate a settlement of the differences between the Shaikh of Kuwait (also referred to as Koweit), Sir Ahmad al-Jabir as-Subah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Hej...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Nov 1929-3 Jul 1931
Extent:
1 volume (401 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1247
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 16 'Iraq-Nejd Frontier: Bon Voisinage agreement between Iraq & Nejd'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns negotiations over the signing of a friendship and bon voisinage [border co-operation] agreement between the Kingdom of Iraq, and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (usually referred to separately as Hejaz or Nejd), following the suppression by the Hejaz Government of the Akhwan [I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jan 1930-1 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (926 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2
Title:
PZ 53/31 'Disposal of Rebel Leaders - Ibn Mashur.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the case of Farhan ibn Mashur, who had committed various acts of rebellion against Ibn Saud. At the conference on HMS Lupin in February 1930 (the Lupin Conference) the King of Iraq (Faisal I) had given a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1931-21 May 1931
Extent:
1 file (87 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/39
Title:
PZ 5615/31 'Hejaz-Nejd: Hejazi representation at The Hague & in Batavia'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the diplomatic representation of the Kingdom of Hejaz and Najd at The Hague and in Batavia. The file includes a letter from HBM Minister, Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill) to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with background information on t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Sep 1931-7 Sep 1931
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/146

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/146
Title:
PZ 3727/35 'Establishment of a spinning and weaving industry in Medina with the help of Indian capital'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence concerning the poverty of Hejaz and the establishment of a spinning and weaving industry in Medina with the help of Indian capital. It also includes a translation of an advertisement to pilgrims announcing Medina-made cloth for sale in Mecca. The main corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1933-May 1935
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/230

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/230
Title:
PZ 2934/37 'The Caliphate (of Islam)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains mainly despatches received by the Foreign Office, reporting on the Egyptian proposal to establish a modern Islamic Caliphate under King Farouk. The main correspondents are Sir Miles Lampson, British Ambassador to Egypt, and Sir Reader William Bullard, Minister at the British Le...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 May 1930-8 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (65 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/372

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/372
Title:
PZ 2221/40 'Use of wrong code in telegram from Ministry of Economic Warfare to Tehran'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a telegram from the Ministry of Economic Warfare addressed to Sir Reader Bullard, the British Ambassador of Tehran, including related correspondence regarding the use an incorrect telegram code. The telegram refers to a proposed future purchase of wool in Iran.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1940 - 27 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/386

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/386
Title:
PZ 3077/40 'Arabia: note on present position of the Ikhwan movement'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a note sent from Sir Hugh Stonehewer Bird, HM Minister at Jedda, to Viscount Halifax, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The subject of the note is a discussion of the current status and situation of the Ikhwan movement.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 May 1940-6 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)