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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Minister for Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia, 1930- Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/10/1167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1167
Title:
File 351/1926 ‘Arabia: Nejd: Employment of British airmen by Ibn Saud Hejazi Air Force’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, mainly Foreign Office despatches received from Jedda, relating to the creation of the Hejaz Air Force by Ibn Saud, with the assistance of the British Government and British air personnel. The main correspondents are the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Gove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1926-18 Jul 1931
Extent:

1 volume (700 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1241

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1241
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 10 'Nejd-Transjordanian Frontier: Situation. 1928-29'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the situation on the frontier between Transjordan and the Kingdom of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and Nejd (usually referred to separately as Hejaz or Nejd), particularly in terms of crossborder raids into both states. The papers cover: reports of raids (dates, identity of leaders, loca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1928-2 Oct 1930
Extent:
1 volume (892 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1242
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 11 'Arabia: Iraq-Nejd Frontier Affairs: Ibn Saud's Request for Arms etc, Saudi Debts to H.M.G.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply of arms and ammunition to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and Nejd, by the Government of India in 1929, to enable him to suppress potential trouble with the Ajman tribe. The papers go on to record the attempts...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1929-9 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (485 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1249

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1249
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 19 'Nejd-Transjordan Frontier situation.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns diplomatic negotiations over the settlement of frontier issues between Transjordan and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd. The file includes correspondence from: the Colonial Office; the Foreign Office; the High Commissioner for Transjordan; HM Chargé d’Affaires, Jeddah; and Fuad...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1930-29 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (522 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2
Title:
PZ 53/31 'Disposal of Rebel Leaders - Ibn Mashur.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the case of Farhan ibn Mashur, who had committed various acts of rebellion against Ibn Saud. At the conference on HMS Lupin in February 1930 (the Lupin Conference) the King of Iraq (Faisal I) had given a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1931-21 May 1931
Extent:
1 file (87 folios)

6. 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)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2065

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2065
Title:
Coll 6/4(2) 'Asir: Relations between Saudi Arabia and the Yemen.'
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 strained relations between Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the Imam o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1933-19 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 volume (394 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2105
Title:
Coll 6/38 'Saudi-Arabia: Position and National Status of British subjects and protected persons.'
Scope & Content:
This file, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, relates to the position and national status of British subjects and protected persons residing in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The correspondence includes discussion of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1931-13 Feb 1934
Extent:
1 file (85 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2107

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2107
Title:
Coll 6/40 'Hejaz-Nejd. Changes in Government Appointments.'
Scope & Content:
This file, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, discusses details of appointments in the Government of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). Also included are profiles of prominent figures in the Hejazi and Nejdi kingdom. Related matters of discussion include the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1928-30 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2119

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2119
Title:
Coll 6/52 'Saudi Arabia: Anti-Saudi activities of Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence discussing the reported activities of Sayed Mohamed Tahir al Dabbagh [Sayyid Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Dabbagh, former Hashimite finance minister in the Hejaz] and other persons referred to as 'anti-Saudi consipirators'. It documents their movements in political exil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1932-6 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 file (159 folios)