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1. IOR/L/PS/20/E56

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E56
Title:
‘MILITARY REPORT ON ARABIA.’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of a military report on Arabia. It was published in 1904 and prepared by the General Staff, War Office. It is divided into eight chapters by the following locations: ‘General Description of Arabia Proper.’ The region of Syria [Greater Syria] The Hejaz The Yemen Nejd [Najd] El...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 volume (169 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/20/E84/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E84/1
Title:
'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917'
Scope & Content:
This volume is A Handbook of Arabia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: May, 1916) and contains geographical and political information of a general character concerning the Arabian Peninsula. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, from so...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 volume (371 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/20/E75/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E75/2
Title:
'INFORMATION REGARDING THE CHIEFS AND LEADING OFFICIALS, NOBLES AND PERSONAGES OF THE ADEN PROTECTORATE.'
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled ‘Information Regarding the Chiefs and Leading Officials, Nobles and Personages in the Aden Protectorate’. A stamp on the front cover indicates that this copy of the publication was enclosed in letter no. 47M from the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923
Extent:

1 volume (15 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/E75/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E75/1
Title:
'LIST OF LEADING OFFICIALS, NOBLES AND PERSONAGES IN THE ADEN PROTECTORATE.'
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled ‘List of Leading Officials, Nobles and Personages in the Aden Protectorate’. A stamp on the front cover indicates that this copy of the publication was enclosed in letter no. 33M from the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India to the Secretary of State for ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 volume (14 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/E81

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E81
Title:
'Handbook of Hejaz. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo.'
Scope & Content:
Second edition of the Handbook of Hejaz. The first edition was compiled by Lieutenant Commander David George Hogarth, Director of the Arab Bureau, in June 1916, however the development of events in Hejaz, along with improved knowledge of the area and a large number of errors in the first edition...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1917
Extent:

1 volume (99 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/E77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E77
Title:
'RED SEA AND GULF OF ADEN PILOT SIXTH EDITION, 1909.'
Scope & Content:
The sixth edition of an official publication entitled Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, produced by the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty and dated 1909. At the front of the volume are: A ‘Notice to Mariners’, containing instructions for sailors on approaching British and British Imperial port...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:

1 volume (331 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/E23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E23
Title:
'DESCRIPTION OF ARABIA MADE FROM PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS AND INFORMATION COLLECTED ON THE SPOT BY CARSTEN NIEBUHR.'
Scope & Content:
An official publication containing a translation of a text entitled ‘Description of Arabia made from Personal Observations and Information Collected on the Spot by Carsten Niebuhr’. The original text by Niebuhr, in German, was published in Amsterdam and Utrecht in 1774. This translation was ca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1889
Extent:

1 volume (59 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/E85

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E85
Title:
Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90
Scope & Content:
This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919. It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:
1 volume (69 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/20/E96

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E96
Title:
A précis of the Relations of the British Government with the Tribes and Shaikhs of Arabistan. By Lt A T Wilson, Acting Consul for Arabistan
Scope & Content:
This volume was published by the Superintendent Government Printing in Calcutta in 1912 and marked as very confidential. The first part of the volume concerns the Relations of the British Government with the tribes and shaikhs of Arabistan and included list of officials in Arabistan (folio 6) and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:

1 volume (67 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/20/E90/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E90/1
Title:
'Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., on his Mission to the King of Hejaz and of Najd and its Dependencies, for the purpose of negotiating a settlement of outstanding questions. (April-June, 1928)'
Scope & Content:
This printed booklet, produced by the Colonial Office in August 1928, is an account of Sir Gilbert Clayton, His Britannic Majesty's Commissioner and Plenipotentiary, on the first part of his third mission (April-June 1928) to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud), King ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1928
Extent:

1 volume (48 folios)