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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name IOR/R/15/5/66

31. IOR/L/PS/18/B410

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B410
Title:
Arms traffic in the Persian Gulf, 1908-1928
Scope & Content:
Memorandum outlining developments in the suppression of the trade in arms in the Persian Gulf from 1908-28. Covering: introduction to arms traffic in Muscat, and the reduction in arms traffic in the Gulf as a whole; treaty engagements, etc., of states bordering on the Persian Gulf – including P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1928
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

32. IOR/L/PS/18/B427

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B427
Title:
Final Record of a Meeting Held at the Foreign Office on Thursday October 5th [1933] to Discuss Relations between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Sheikh of Koweit
Scope & Content:
This is a printed memorandum containing a record of a meeting held at the Foreign Office on 5 October 1933 to discuss relations between Great Britain and the Sheikh of Koweit [Kuwait], Aḥmad bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, particularly in regards to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Aziz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Āl Sa‘ūd]. The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Oct 1933
Extent:

1 file (25 folios)

33. IOR/L/PS/18/B431

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B431
Title:
Relations between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Sheikh of Koweit
Scope & Content:
This secret memorandum, printed by the Foreign Office, contains a record of a meeting held at the Foreign Office on 5 October 1933 to discuss relations between Great Britain and the Sheikh of Koweit [Kuwait], Aḥmad bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, particularly in regards to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Aziz bin ‘Abd a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1934
Extent:

1 file (10 folios)

34. IOR/L/PS/18/B437

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B437
Title:
Historical Memorandum on the Relations of the Wahabi Amirs and Ibn Saud with Eastern Arabia and the British Government, 1800-1934
Scope & Content:
The file contains a historical memorandum written in response to claims advanced by Ibn Saud to ancestral rights on the eastern boundary of the Saudi Kingdom, and to suggestions put forward by him that at some period in the past arrangements were entered into with his ancestors, the Wahabi Amirs...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1934
Extent:

1 file (32 folios)

35. IOR/L/PS/18/B446

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B446
Title:
The Seven Independent Arabian States [Yemen, ‘Asir, Hijaz, Najd, Kuwait, Jabal Shammar and al-Jawf]
Scope & Content:
This confidential memorandum, printed by the Foreign Office in May 1935 is a report by William John Childs concerning the seven independent Arabian states or autonomous areas. The report contains an introduction that states that the 'purpose of the paper is to give a brief outline each of the se...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1935
Extent:

1 file (10 folios)

36. IOR/R/15/1/331

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/331
Title:
File 19/126 II (C 29) Bahrain Customs
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the administration of the Customs House in Bahrain from 1914 until 1929. The earlier correspondence relates to a disagreement between Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa and Bin Saud regarding tariff charges on goods entering and leaving Bahrain from the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 May 1914-18 Jun 1929
Extent:
1 volume (287 folios)

37. IOR/R/15/1/333

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/333
Title:
File 19/139 I (C 60) Steamer for Bahrain and neighbouring ports
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence that discusses the details of a proposal by the British India Steam Navigation Company to run a steamer service between the ports of Bahrain, Qatif, Oqair and Qatar. The file also includes correspondence regarding Ibn Saud’s desire to establish a port on the P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1914-22 Oct 1930
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

38. IOR/R/15/1/334

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/334
Title:
File 19/163 I (C 33) Bin Saud's relations with Shaikh of Bahrain. Nejdi Agent's activities in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file contains documents regarding relations between the British, Bin Saud and Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa between 1923 and 1931. The documents discuss the Persian-Nejdi violence that occurred in Bahrain in 1923, the activities and expulsion of Bin Saud's agent in Bahrain (Abdullah Al ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1923-31 Jul 1931
Extent:
1 volume (201 folios)

39. IOR/R/15/1/556-609

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/556-609
Title:
File 61: Najd
Scope & Content:
These files and volumes contain correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the Najd region, in present-day Saudi Arabia, and its ruler, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd, commonly known as Ibn Sa‘ūd. The papers cover the period from Ibn Sa‘ūd's rise to prominence after taking Riyadh in 1902, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1905-1944
Extent:
54 files and volumes (12,432 folios)

40. IOR/R/15/1/597

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/597
Title:
File 61/18 [II] (D 125) Bin Saud
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the development of formal communications between Najd and Bahrain, and the wider Gulf and Indian region. The first of two items in the file is a letter (dated 28 January 1932) from the Special Secretary to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd) King ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1932-19 Feb 1932
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)