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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Secretary of State for the Colonies, United Kingdom, 1854-1966 Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/10/110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/110
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 1 'Arms Traffic :- Muscat Warehouse. Negotiations with France 1907-1911.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the arms trade at Muscat and attempts by the British Government and the Sultan of Muscat to prohibit it; also included are reports and discussions from the Conference on Arms Traffic which was being held in Brussels in 1909 at the same time as the discussions in the volume. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Aug 1906-25 Aug 1911
Extent:

1 volume (488 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/611/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/611/2
Title:
File 3300/1916 Pt 4 'Aden News-Letters. (1921-23)'
Scope & Content:
The file mainly consists of the following: copies of News Letters from the Political Resident, Aden, addressed to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and then to the Secretary of State for the Colonies (from the News Letter dated 5 May 1921, forwarded 1 June 1921), which were forwarded to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1921-26 Feb 1924
Extent:
1 item (322 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/675

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/675
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 6 'Arms Traffic Convention: revised convention, 1925'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this volume relate to the revised international Arms Traffic Convention (1925). The papers include: The right to supply munitions to the governments of Afghanistan, Nepal and Tibet should they fall within the ‘prohibited zone’, 11 December 1924; the preference for including all co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1925-29 Apr 1926
Extent:

1 volume (609 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/782

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/782
Title:
File 36/1919 Pt 3 ‘KURDISTAN POLICY & SITUATION’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, newspaper clippings, parliamentary notes, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British officials regarding the political situation in Kurdistan, but also contains correspondence from Kurdish representatives and var...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Dec 1919-4 Dec 1922
Extent:
1 volume (295 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1124
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 1 ‘Arabia:- Situation 1924; Wahabi attack on Hedjaz. Capture of Taif & defeat of Hedjaz Army. Abdication of King Hussein.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning the invasion of the Hedjaz [Hejaz] by Wahabi [Wahhabi] forces associated with the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and the subsequent abdication of the King of Hedjaz, Amir Hussein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāsh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Aug 1924-6 Jan 1925
Extent:

1 volume (419 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/1125/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1125/2
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 3 ‘Arabia:- Situation 1924. Wahabi attack on Trans-Jordania; Hedjaz - Trans-Jordanian Boundary.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning a Wahabi [Wahhabi] attack on Transjordan (or Trans Jordan [Jordan]) in August 1924. The papers cover: initial reports of an attempted raid by Wahabi troops on Amman on 14 August 1924; the repulsion of the attack by British ground and air forces; Ibn Sau...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1924-7 May 1925
Extent:

1 item (168 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/1125/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1125/3
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 4 ‘Arabia:- Nejd-Hedjaz Situation. Attitude of Moslem world. Hedjaz deputation to India. Nejd deputation to India.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to a proposal by the Ruler of Iraq, King Feisal [Fayṣal al-Awwal ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], to organise a conference of rulers from the Islamic world, in order to settle the future administration of Islam’s holy cities. The proposal was in response to the invasio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1926
Extent:

1 item (89 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/1155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1155
Title:
File 3666/1925 'ARABIA: PRINTED CORRESPONDENCE 1924-28'
Scope & Content:
This volume mainly relates to British policy in Arabia, and specifically concerns British relations with Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Bin Saud]. The papers cover the Hejaz-Nejd War of 1924-25 and political affairs in Ib...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
27 Dec 1924-28 Oct 1929
Extent:

1 volume (388 folios)

9. 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)

10. 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)