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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name HM Chargé d'Affaires to Jeddah, 1930-Mid 20th century

1. IOR/L/PS/10/1249

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1249
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 19 'Nejd-Transjordan Frontier situation.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns diplomatic negotiations over the settlement of frontier issues between Transjordan and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd. The file includes correspondence from: the Colonial Office; the Foreign Office; the High Commissioner for Transjordan; HM Chargé d’Affaires, Jeddah; and Fuad...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1930-29 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (522 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2073

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2073
Title:
Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–'
Scope & Content:
This file consists almost entirely of copies (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) of printed reports sent either by the His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard), or, in the Mini...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1931-31 Mar 1938
Extent:
1 file (399 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/60
Title:
PZ 6249/32 Arabia: Theft of Relics from the Holy Cube at Mecca
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the theft of holy relics from the Holy Cube in Mecca and the confession, sentencing and execution of the culprit. The file also mentions the ceremonial returning of the relics to the Holy Cube by Ibn Saud. The primary correspondent is Cecil Gervase Hope ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1932-18 Oct 1932
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2085

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2085
Title:
Coll 6/19 'Arabia: (Saudi Arabia) Hejaz-Nejd Annual Report.'
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of annual reports regarding the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia) during the years 1930-1938 and 1943-1944. The reports were produced by the British Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard) and sent to the Secretary of S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1931-18 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (268 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1950

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1950
Title:
Coll 5/5 ‘Arabia: Hejaz Air Force; Recruitment of personnel by HMG; Instruction of Hejazi pilots’
Scope & Content:
The file covers the subject of the development of aviation in Hejaz (Saudi Arabia from 1932), and requests made to the British Government for assistance in the development of an air force. The earliest papers (1931) deal with a crisis in the Hejaz Air Force, in which the Hejaz Government desire...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1931-14 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 file (350 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2095

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2095
Title:
Coll 6/29 'Hejaz-Nejd: Haramain Waqfs.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the establishment of what is referred to in the file as the Auqāf al Harameyn Claims Association, created for the purpose of claiming auqāf (or awqāf, plural of waqf) on behalf of the Harameyn (the two sanctuaries of Mecca and Medina, also transliterated as Haramayn, Haramei...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Dec 1927-15 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 file (223 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2149

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2149
Title:
Coll 6/76 'Saudi Arabia: Oil concessions over the Red Sea littoral.'
Scope & Content:
This file primarily relates to oil concessions in Saudi Arabia along the Red Sea coast. Much of the correspondence discusses the progress and outcome of negotiations between the Saudi Government and Petroleum Concessions Limited. The correspondence includes discussion of the following: Whether ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1936-14 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 file (77 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2061

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2061
Title:
Coll 6/1 'Hejaz-Nejd: Franco-Hejaz-Nejd Treaty and Relations Hejaz-Syria Treaty.'
Scope & Content:
This file primarily concerns relations between France and the Hejaz-Nejd (later Saudi Arabian) Government. The beginning of the file relates to treaty negotiations between France and Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd's] Hejaz-Nejd Government, as well as negotiatio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Feb 1926-16 Dec 1937
Extent:
1 file (53 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2079

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2079
Title:
Coll 6/13 'Hejaz: Procedure for deportations to and from'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the procedure for the deportation of persons to and from the Hejaz, particularly British subjects and British-protected persons. The file includes copies of Foreign Office correspondence, as well as copies of Government of India correspondence. Correspondents include the fol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1929-12 May 1932
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/4256

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4256
Title:
Coll 37/22 'Travellers. Arabia: Rub-al-Khali. Crossing of by Mr. Bertram Thomas and Mr. H St. J. Philby.'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of handwritten letters, press cuttings and a map relating to the crossings of the Rub al Khali desert by Bertram Thomas and Harry St John Bridger Philby in the 1930s. The main topic discussed is the politics of awarding an honour to Bertram Thomas for his crossing of the Rub ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1931-23 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)