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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name King of Saudi Arabia, 1932- Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/10/1033

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1033
Title:
File 450/1922 Pt 1 'Arabia: Nejd-Trans-Jordan dispute: Activities of Ibn Saud's followers; Proposed conference at Koweit'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes, draft papers, and memoranda relating to the delineation of the boundary between the Kingdom of Nejd and Transjordan. The papers deal with matters such as the status of the Jauf [al-Jawf] region, the idea for a Baghdad-Haifa railway, numerous raids and counter raids along...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922-1923
Extent:
1 volume (420 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/128
Title:
PZ 704/1935 Arabia: Request for Financial Assistance for the ex-Amir of Mecca
Scope & Content:
The file mainly consists of correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office, and enclosed copies of Foreign Office correspondence, relating to the former Amir [Emir] of Mecca, Sherif Ali Haider. It includes a letter from Kenneth Johnstone, Foreign Office, to John Gilbert Laithwa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1935-25 Apr 1935
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/245
Title:
PZ 1115/1938 'Col. Dickson's visit to Riyadh and conversations with Ibn Saud.'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence and other papers mainly relating to the private visit of Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and his three private conversations with King Ibn Saud. It includes correspondence between John Charles Walton, India Office, and Dickson...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1937-26 Feb 1938
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/376
Title:
PZ 2540/40 'Censorship: connivance at use of cypher in messages to and from Ibn Saud and the two Amirs'
Scope & Content:
This file contains two telegrams about the use of cypher in messages between Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Political Resident, Bushire.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1940-16 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/996

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/996
Title:
Ext 2197/45 'Viceroy's visit to Ibn Saud'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the visit of the Viceroy (Viscount Wavell) to Riyadh and his meeting with Ibn Saud in 1945. Most of the papers relate to the costs of the trip, but some are brief overviews of the meeting of the two leaders in Riyadh. The letters are primarily exchanges betwe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1945-24 Sep 1945
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2052

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2052
Title:
Coll 5/85 ‘Airfield at Dharan for U.S.A.A.F.: Proposal to construct new airport at Bahrain (Hamala)’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with proposals for the construction of an airfield – suitable for very heavy bombers – at Dhahran by the United States Army Air Transport Command as a wartime necessity, and applications from the United States to the United Kingdom for the latters support in obtaining permi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1944-14 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (259 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2064

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2064
Title:
Coll 6/4(1) 'Asir: Assumption by Ibn Saud of control of internal administration of Asir.'
Scope & Content:
This volume mostly contains copies of Foreign Office correspondence (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) relating to the assumption by Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] of control of the internal ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov 1930-12 Oct 1933
Extent:
1 volume (548 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2065

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2065
Title:
Coll 6/4(2) 'Asir: Relations between Saudi Arabia and the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
This volume mostly contains copies of Foreign Office correspondence (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) relating to the strained relations between Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the Imam o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1933-19 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 volume (394 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2066

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2066
Title:
Coll 6/5 'Relations with Ibn Saud. Proposed meeting between Col. Biscoe and Ibn Saud. Koweit-Nejd Relations.'
Scope & Content:
This volume consists largely of copies of Foreign Office correspondence (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) regarding relations between Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and Kuwait. In addition, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1929-21 Sep 1932
Extent:
1 volume (464 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2071

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2071
Title:
Coll 6/8(1) 'Printed Series: 1929 to 1938.'
Scope & Content:
This volume compiles printed copies of letters, telegrams, memoranda and newspaper extracts relating to Britain's involvement across the Arabian Peninsula during the period 1929-1938. Whilst the correspondence encompasses all matters concerning British interests in the region, much of it relates...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Jan 1929-15 Jan 1938
Extent:
1 volume (527 folios)