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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name High Commissioner, Palestine and Transjordan, 1920-1948

1. IOR/L/PS/12/37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/37
Title:
PZ 5443/31 'Transjordan: political situation reports'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to monthly reports of the British Resident, Amman, on the political situation in Transjordan from July 1931 to October 1934. The reports discuss a range of political matters including: the relationship of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1931-4 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (253 folios)

2. 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)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1241

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1241
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 10 'Nejd-Transjordanian Frontier: Situation. 1928-29'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the situation on the frontier between Transjordan and the Kingdom of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and Nejd (usually referred to separately as Hejaz or Nejd), particularly in terms of crossborder raids into both states. The papers cover: reports of raids (dates, identity of leaders, loca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1928-2 Oct 1930
Extent:
1 volume (892 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1310

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1310
Title:
File 42/1931 'Nejd-Transjordanian Raid Claims'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the subject 'Nejd-Transjordanian Raid Claims'. The papers cover: investigations into raids into Trans-Jordan in 1930-31, including the looting of seventy camels; the situation on the Nejd-Transjordanian border; and a note on policy for the control of the Trans-Jordan desert...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1930-Aug 1933
Extent:
1 volume (461 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/911

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/911
Title:
File 4917/1920 'MESOPOTAMIA: MANDATE [AND PALESTINE]'
Scope & Content:
The volume includes correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters, minutes, draft mandates and conventions. The correspondence is mainly about the British Mandate for Palestine and Mesopotamia, and the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon. British and French officials exchanged draft copies o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Jun 1920-31 Dec 1924
Extent:

1 volume (377 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/913/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/913/2
Title:
MESOPOTAMIA: RETURN OF BAGHDADI OFFICERS & FAMILIES FROM SYRIA
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume is concerned with the repatriation expenses of Mesopotamian [Iraqi] officers expelled from Syria, and their families [based in Damascus, Beirut and Jerusalem] who are unable to make their own arrangement to return to Iraq. In particular, it is concerned with: the number o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1920-19 Sep 1921
Extent:

1 item (159 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/490

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/490
Title:
PZ 1489/41 'Jamming of Berlin Broadcasts'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Secretary of State for India, the Ministry of Information and the Wireless Telegraphy Board, discussing a proposal to jam Berlin Arabic radio broadcasts in the region of Bahrain, on account of their being li...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1941-5 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/891

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/891
Title:
File 1913/1920 'Mesopotamia and Palestine: rent of billets in occupation of military; liability of Mesopotamian state for cost of military forces'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence regarding the use of billets by British military forces and civil officials in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in the years following the end of the First World War. Topics discussed include: Efforts to vacate and release as many billets as possible as a way to appease anti-Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1919-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (130 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/385

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/385
Title:
PZ 3054/40 'Journey of son and two grandsons of Sultan of Lahej to Aden from Egypt via Transjordan'
Scope & Content:
This document is a cypher telegram sent from the High Commissioner for Trans-Jordan [Emirate of Transjordan] to the Secretary of State for the Colonies relating to the potential passage of a son and two grandsons of the Sultan of Lahej through Transjordan on their way from Egypt to Aden.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1940-1 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

10. 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)