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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name High Commissioner, Palestine and Transjordan, 1920-1948

11. 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)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/37
Title:
PZ 5443/31 'Transjordan: political situation reports'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to monthly reports of the British Resident, Amman, on the political situation in Transjordan from July 1931 to October 1934. The reports discuss a range of political matters including: the relationship of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1931-4 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (253 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/12/385

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/385
Title:
PZ 3054/40 'Journey of son and two grandsons of Sultan of Lahej to Aden from Egypt via Transjordan'
Scope & Content:
This document is a cypher telegram sent from the High Commissioner for Trans-Jordan [Emirate of Transjordan] to the Secretary of State for the Colonies relating to the potential passage of a son and two grandsons of the Sultan of Lahej through Transjordan on their way from Egypt to Aden.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1940-1 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/12/490

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/490
Title:
PZ 1489/41 'Jamming of Berlin Broadcasts'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Secretary of State for India, the Ministry of Information and the Wireless Telegraphy Board, discussing a proposal to jam Berlin Arabic radio broadcasts in the region of Bahrain, on account of their being li...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1941-5 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/2064

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2064
Title:
Coll 6/4(1) 'Asir: Assumption by Ibn Saud of control of internal administration of Asir.'
Scope & Content:
This volume mostly contains copies of Foreign Office correspondence (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) relating to the assumption by Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] of control of the internal ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov 1930-12 Oct 1933
Extent:
1 volume (548 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/12/2067

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2067
Title:
Coll 6/6 'Nejd: Nejd-Transjordan Frontier Raiding. Note from H.M.G. to Ibn Saud.'
Scope & Content:
This volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) regarding reported raids on the frontier between Transjordan and the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1931-22 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 volume (780 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/12/2071

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2071
Title:
Coll 6/8(1) 'Printed Series: 1929 to 1938.'
Scope & Content:
This volume compiles printed copies of letters, telegrams, memoranda and newspaper extracts relating to Britain's involvement across the Arabian Peninsula during the period 1929-1938. Whilst the correspondence encompasses all matters concerning British interests in the region, much of it relates...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Jan 1929-15 Jan 1938
Extent:
1 volume (527 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/12/2078

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2078
Title:
Coll 6/12 'Railways: Hejaz Railway: Reconditioning of.'
Scope & Content:
This volume largely consists of copies of Colonial Office and Foreign Office and correspondence. The correspondence concerns the possibility of the Hejaz railway being reconditioned and extended. A large part of the correspondence discusses the issue of ownership regarding the Hejaz railway. Muc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1931-10 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 file (515 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/12/2084

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2084
Title:
Coll 6/18 'Arabia: Migration of Hejazis from Hejaz to Transjordan'
Scope & Content:
This file is concerned with the migration of Hejazis from Hejaz to Transjordan. The file consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, which discuss rumours of disaffection among Hejazi tribesmen, and of their desertion from the Hejaz to Transjordan. The correspondenc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1931-4 Apr 1932
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/12/2095

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2095
Title:
Coll 6/29 'Hejaz-Nejd: Haramain Waqfs.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the establishment of what is referred to in the file as the Auqāf al Harameyn Claims Association, created for the purpose of claiming auqāf (or awqāf, plural of waqf) on behalf of the Harameyn (the two sanctuaries of Mecca and Medina, also transliterated as Haramayn, Haramei...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Dec 1927-15 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 file (223 folios)