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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Aden, Arabian Peninsula

371. IOR/L/PS/10/67

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/67
Title:
File 37/1905 Pt 5 'Aden Delimitation'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the delineation of the border between the British Protectorate of Aden and the Ottoman Vilayet of Yemen. Much of the correspondence is between officials at the Foreign Office and the India Office. Much of the correspondence ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1905-1907
Extent:
1 volume (300 folios)

372. IOR/L/PS/10/74

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/74
Title:
File 600/1905 Pt 1-3 'Aden Hinterland Affairs'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and memoranda relating to the affairs of the Aden Protectorate. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Residency in Aden, the Political Agency in Dthala [al-Ḍāli‘], the Government of Bombay, the Government of India, the India Office, and the Foreign...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1915
Extent:
1 volume (456 folios)

373. IOR/L/PS/10/75

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/75
Title:
File 600/1905 Pt 4-6 'Aden Hinterland Affairs'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and memoranda relating to the affairs of the Aden Protectorate. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Residency in Aden, the Government of Bombay, the Government of India, the India Office, and the Foreign Office. There are many enclosures to the c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1903-1920
Extent:
1 volume (262 folios)

374. IOR/L/PS/10/89

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/89
Title:
File 379/1906 'Railways: Aden; railway construction in Aden hinterland; Aden-Lahej Railway'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and notes, relating to proposals for the construction of a steam railway between Aden and its hinterland from 1904. The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and li...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1904-3 Apr 1922
Extent:
1 volume (150 folios)

375. IOR/L/PS/10/285

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/285
Title:
File 2672/1912 ‘Turco-Italian War: Red Sea’
Scope & Content:
The volume, which bears the alternative title ‘Turco-Italian War: Italian action in the Red Sea’ on its first page (f 3), contains correspondence relating to the blockade by the Italian navy of ports on the Red Sea, including Hodeida [Al-Ḥudaydah], from 25 January 1912. This action was part of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
3 Feb 1912-19 Jun 1913
Extent:
1 volume (312 folios)

376. IOR/L/PS/10/295

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/295
Title:
File 3498/1912 ‘Aden News Letters’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the Aden weekly newsletters for the years 1912 to 1916, which are also referred to as the Aden or Residency weekly political intelligence summaries or diaries and were compiled by the British Political Resident at Aden. They contain a record of current local events, news and i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Aug 1912-3 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 volume (295 folios)

377. IOR/L/PS/10/407

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/407
Title:
File 3463/1913 ‘Aden Frontier Proposed ratification of the 1905 boundary settlement’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains India Office correspondence with the Foreign Office, mainly about the latter’s proposal to seek ratification of the Aden boundary settlement of 1905, as part of British counter-concessions to be tabled at the Anglo-Turkish Commercial Convention negotiations in London, 1913-19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1914
Extent:

1 volume (130 folios)

378. IOR/L/PS/10/558

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/558
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 1 'German War: Red Sea and Arabia (1914)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to consideration by the British of the political and strategic situation in the Red Sea area near Aden and actions which might promote British interests in the period up to the start of the First World War....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1914-21 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 volume (179 folios)

379. IOR/L/PS/10/559

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/559
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 2 'German War: Arabia'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to British political and strategic policy in the Red Sea area near Aden and actions which might promote British interests in the period up to the start of the First World War. Particularly it discusses rela...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Nov 1914-22 Oct 1915
Extent:
1 volume (231 folios)

380. IOR/L/PS/10/560

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/560
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 3-4 'ARABIA: RED SEA – POLICY'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two parts: IOR/L/PS/10/560/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/560/2. IOR/L/PS/10/560/1 discusses Red Sea policy during the period 1915-16 and issues such as negotiations with the Imam of Yemen and the Idrisi Saiyid [Sayyid Muḥammad bin ‘Alī al-Idrīsī], as well the effect of the British blo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1915-16 Jan 1916
Extent:
1 volume (407 folios)