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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Jeddah, Arabian Peninsula, Asia Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 10-23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 10-23
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 3 dated 2 January 1856. The enclosures are dated 10-29 December 1855. Three letters from Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan, Acting Political R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1856
Extent:
1 item (14 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/86

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/86
Title:
File 2776/1905 Pt 1-2 ‘Arabia: - Hodeidah Consulate. Expenditure etc. Jeddah Consulate. Expenditure'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject ‘Hodeidah and Jeddah Consulates’. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/86/1) concerns the expenditure of the Hodeidah Consulate. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/86/2) concerns the expenditure of the Jeddah Consulate. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and par...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1900-1913
Extent:
1 volume (275 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/521

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/521
Title:
1914 5085 P. 1 &2 German War. Turkey. Jeddah Affairs
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes, relating to the Consulate Affairs in Jeddah, following the outbreak of war with the Ottoman Empire and the withdrawal of the British consul at Jeddah. Further discussion surrounds correspondence wi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1918
Extent:
1 volume (185 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1115
Title:
File 1707/1924 ‘Arabia:- Jeddah Situation Reports. (1924-1930)’
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly contains printed copies of despatches from HM Agent and Consul, Jeddah, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, enclosing reports on the situation in the Hejaz (also spelled Hedjaz in the file) [now a region of Saudi Arabia], from January 1924 to December 1930, and relat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1924-18 Mar 1931
Extent:

1 volume (445 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/10/1126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1126
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 5 ‘Arabia:- Situation 1925; Hedjaz-Nejd hostilities’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the invasion of the Hejaz region of Arabia by Wahabi [Wahhabi] troops under the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. The papers cover: the Wahabi attack on Jeddah, and a blockade of the coast to the south of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925
Extent:

1 volume (400 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/44
Title:
PZ 7079/31 'Arabia: location of archives of the British Consulate Jeddah, 1913-16'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the location of the archives of the British Consulate, Jeddah, relating to the period 1909-16. Correspondence between the Government of Bombay and the Government of India describes how the archives were deposited wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Nov 1931-10 Mar 1932
Extent:
1 volume (15 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B235
Title:
‘The Arab Revolt. Views of an Indian Moslem [Muslim].’
Scope & Content:
A secret memorandum containing an extract of a letter, received by Edward Ernest Long, former editor of the Indian Daily Telegraph, and written by an unnamed Indian Muslim. A copy of another letter, written by Long, dated 7 July 1916, precedes the main letter, in which Long describes the views o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1916
Extent:

2 folios

9. IOR/R/15/1/565

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/565
Title:
File 61/11 II (D 42) Relations between Nejd and Hejaz
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to the situation in the Hejaz at the time, with Ali entrenched in Jeddah and Ibn Sa'ud's Ikhwan in Mecca. The majority of the correspondence is between Reader Bullard, the British Agent in Jeddah, the Political Residency in Bushir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Nov 1924-10 Jul 1925
Extent:
1 volume (307 folios)