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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968 Digitised Content No

1. IOR/R/15/1/556-609

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/556-609
Title:
File 61: Najd
Scope & Content:
These files and volumes contain correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the Najd region, in present-day Saudi Arabia, and its ruler, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd, commonly known as Ibn Sa‘ūd. The papers cover the period from Ibn Sa‘ūd's rise to prominence after taking Riyadh in 1902, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1905-1944
Extent:
54 files and volumes (12,432 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/610-615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/610-615
Title:
File 73: Routes and Railways in Persia and Arabia
Scope & Content:
These files and volumes contain correspondence, maps, newspaper cuttings, and other documents relating to the planning and building of the Baghdad Railway and its extension to Basra. Questions addressed within the files are those of ownership and control (contested between Germany, Britain, the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1911-1919
Extent:

6 files and volumes (1107 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/668

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/668
Title:
'Vol D.144. Confidential 86/5-ii HASA OIL'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident (Trenchard Craven Fowle; Percy Gordon Loch); the Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch; Tom Hickinbotham; Hugh Weightman); the British Minister and Legation at Jedda (Sir Reader Bullard; Andrew Spencer Calvert); the Secret...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1934-9 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 volume (216 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/622

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/622
Title:
‘File 22/22 – VOL.II K_A_L_B_A’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a letter in March 1948, from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in London, requesting British recognition of Shaikh Saqr bin Muhammad bin Salim [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Muḥammad bin Sālim al-Qāsimī] as the new Ruler of Ras al Kha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1922-19 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (112 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/634

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/634
Title:
‘File 24/3 SAYID MUHAMMAD TAHIR AL DABBAGH & ABDUL RA’OUF SABBAN, HEDJAZI AGITATORS’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a letter of complaint from Mr Ismail Ghaznavi (also spelt Ghuznavi) of Amritsar, India, and is addressed to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, New Delhi, in December 1927. This letter and the ensuing correspondence, mainly between British officials in India an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1927-18 Feb 1934
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/311

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/311
Title:
File 9/1 Slave Traffic
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence regarding the trade in enslaved people in the Persian Gulf, and particularly in Kuwait (where there was no anti-slavery agreement between the British Government and the Ruler of Kuwait). Much of the correspondence is concerned with the preparation of informat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1929-27 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (194 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/6/236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/236
Title:
File 8/54 Muscat State Affairs: Affairs of members of ruling family
Scope & Content:
This file concerns members of the ruling family of Muscat. Most of the file relates to the financial affairs of Dhiyab bin Fahad [Dhiyab bin Fahad bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd], a cousin of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. The correspondence begins with a request from Dhiya...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
25 Apr 1941-29 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (132 folios)

8. IOR/Z/R/15/1/1-10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/Z/R/15/1/1-10
Title:
Indexes, Registers and Filing Guides
Scope & Content:
The indexes, registers and filing guides contain lists of the subject files created by the Residency in the Persian Gulf between circa 1880 and 1947, including all those created under the auspice of the A and B Series, and Confidential Office. Each index is typewritten, but features numerous hand...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941-1954
Extent:
10 volumes and files (1033 folios)