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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Aden, Arabian Peninsula

261. IOR/L/PS/10/604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/604
Title:
File 2415/1916 ‘Aden Protectorate:- Gift of £10,000; Gift of Guns to Sultan of Lahej.’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the financial and military support Britain gave to tribes in South Arabia (present-day Yemen) during the First World War. Subjects covered include: in 1914, a declaration by the ‘Abdali Sultan of Lahej [Laḩij] of his longstanding f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1914-16 Feb 1928
Extent:

1 volume (284 folios)

262. IOR/L/PS/10/1193/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1193/1
Title:
File 3939/1926 Pt 3 'Publications: Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Aden and Arabia Sections.'
Scope & Content:
This part relates to the Government of India's decision to issue a revised edition of Aitchison's Treaties (full title: A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries), with revised narratives for each geographical area covered, incorporating the pr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Dec 1928-11 Apr 1929
Extent:

1 item (204 folios)

263. IOR/L/PS/12/75

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/75
Title:
PZ 3941/33 'Reforms: position of Aden, British Baluchistan, NWFP [North-West Frontier Province] and Department of External Affairs'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding proposed reforms to the administration of India, particularly in relation to Aden, British Baluchistan, the North-West Frontier Province and the Department of External Affairs. The file includes a draft of a White Paper detailing the proposed reforms (ff 12-32),...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1933-24 Feb 1933
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

264. IOR/L/PS/12/179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/179
Title:
PZ 6508/35 Aden: rebuilding of Church of Scotland School at Sheikh Othman
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence concerning enquiries for a grant from the Colonial Office towards the cost of rebuilding the Church of Scotland School at Sheikh Othman [Ash Shaykh ‘Uthmān] in Aden, which was destroyed by a flood in 1927. The main correspondents include John Graham Kerr, MP ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1935-Feb 1936
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

265. IOR/L/PS/12/206

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/206
Title:
PZ 5179/36 'Aden: proposed memorial to Captain S. B. Haines, R.I.N.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the erection of a proposed memorial in Aden to Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, in the run-up to the hundredth anniversary of the British occupation of Aden. The discussion in the volume contains pri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1936-2 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 file (53 folios)

266. IOR/L/PS/12/292

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/292
Title:
PZ 3323/39 'Aden Salt Industry'
Scope & Content:
This file contains a letter from Bernard Rawdon Reilly (Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Aden) to Malcolm MacDonald (Secretary of State for the Colonies), and a reply from MacDonald to Reilly. The correspondence relates to the concerns of Sir Hormusjee Cowasjee Dinshaw about the future of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Feb 1939-31 May 1939
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

267. IOR/L/PS/12/1443-1512

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1443-1512
Title:
Political (External) Collection 1: Aden
Scope & Content:
This collection consists of files relating to the administration of the Aden Settlement and Protectorate. The materials were created and accumulated by the India Office Political Department, and primarily consist of correspondence with the Aden Residency staff, the Foreign Office, the Colonial O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1949
Extent:
65 files and 4 volumes (8967 folios)

268. IOR/L/PS/12/2068

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2068
Title:
Coll 6/7(1) 'The Yemen: Relations between H.M.G. and the Imam.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns relations between the British Government and Imam Yehia bin Muhammad Hamid Uddin [Yaḥyá Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn, Imam of Yemen]. It largely consists of correspondence between the Political Resident at Aden (Sir George Stewart Symes, succeeded by Bernard Rawdon Reilly) and offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jan 1906-16 Jun 1932
Extent:
1 volume (387 folios)

269. IOR/L/PS/12/2199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2199
Title:
Coll 7/30 'Aden settlement: application to export arms and ammunition to Aden'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Licensing Section of the Board of Trade, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the India Office Political Department, regarding applications by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd for Export Licences to transport cartridges to Aden.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1931-30 May 1935
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

270. IOR/L/PS/12/4107

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4107
Title:
Coll 35/4 'Arabia: postal communication between Kamaran and Jizan; wireless communication between Aden and Jizan'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns arrangements for the transmission of post between Jizan (Saudi Arabia) and Kamaran (Yemen), and covers the establishment of wireless telecommunications between Jizan and Aden. The file is composed of correspondence between: the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Political R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1931-9 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 file (60 folios)