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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Hejaz, Arabian Peninsula, Asia Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 154-166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 154-166
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, [Bombay Secret Letter] No. 12 dated 2 February 1856. The enclosures are dated 10-25 January 1856. The papers comprise three letters from Brigadier William Marcus Coghla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1856
Extent:
1 item (13 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/12
Title:
File 3142/1903 'Hedjaz Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains copies of correspondence between British officials regarding the construction of the Hedjaz [Hijaz] Railway. The correspondence discusses a number of different aspects of the railway including its route, the progress of its construction and donations made towards its constru...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1901-1908
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/466

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/466
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 6 ‘German War. Turkey. Jeddah. Food Supplies’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning the impact of war between Britain and Turkey upon shipping, food supplies and travellers on Hajj pilgrimage, along the Red Sea coast of Arabia (including the Hedjaz [Hejaz] and Yemen), and the wider Arab region. Subjects covered include: Reports of food shortages in the Hedjaz ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Dec 1914-11 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 volume (226 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/527

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/527
Title:
File 53/1915 Pt 6 'The War: Arab Kingdom; Italian claims'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to Italian claims and policy in the Arabian Peninsula in the context of British policy in the Arabian Peninsula particularly in relation to the Hejaz, Asir and the Yemen. The discussion in the volume rel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 volume (176 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/586

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/586
Title:
File 705/1916 Pt 1-2 Arab Revolt
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers that pertain to various military and intelligence fields of operation during 1916, specifically relating to the First World War in the region of Hejaz and the broader Arabian peninsula. The bulk of the file is comprised of reports on various military, intelligence, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 file (473 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/648

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/648
Title:
File 287/1917 ''Arabia: Deportation of undesirable Indians''
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly India Office minute papers and correspondence, relating to the deportation from the Hejaz of certain Indians for alleged anti-British and pro-Turkish activities (as part of the silk letters movement), and their internment in Malta. The file includes corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
12 Dec 1916-14 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 volume (155 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/657

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/657
Title:
File 756/1917 Pt 1 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 1 to 65’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin numbers 1-65 produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 volume (616 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/936

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/936
Title:
File 7251/1920 Pt 1 'Arabia: General Situation; Hedjaz-Nejd relations.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the general situation in Arabia and in particular relations between Sultan of Nejd Bin Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussain [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī] of Hejaz....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Sep 1920-7 Jul 1924
Extent:
1 volume (402 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/937/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/937/2
Title:
File 7251/1920 Pt 3 'Arabia: Situation and Policy; Agenda for Inter Departmental Committee Meetings'
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume contains correspondence and other papers concerning relations between Nejd, Transjordan, Hejaz, Yemen, and the Idrisi state, as well as policy in Arabia more generally. Correspondence comes from officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, War Office, the Political Resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1920-4 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 item (133 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/1124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1124
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 1 ‘Arabia:- Situation 1924; Wahabi attack on Hedjaz. Capture of Taif & defeat of Hedjaz Army. Abdication of King Hussein.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning the invasion of the Hedjaz [Hejaz] by Wahabi [Wahhabi] forces associated with the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and the subsequent abdication of the King of Hedjaz, Amir Hussein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāsh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Aug 1924-6 Jan 1925
Extent:

1 volume (419 folios)