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11. IOR/L/PS/12/2170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2170
Title:
Coll 6/96 'World Islamic Conference 1949'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of one letter, dated 19 July 1949 and addressed by the British Legation in Amman to the Foreign Office's Eastern Department. The letter relays reports of 'unknown reliability' that King Ibn Saoud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] proposes to hold a World I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jul 1949-11 Aug 1949
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/2147

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2147
Title:
Coll 6/74 'Foreign Office memorandum entitled "The Seven Independent Arabian States." (Yemen, Asir, the Hejaz, Nejd, Kowait, Jebel Shammar, and Jauf.)'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a memorandum received by the India Office from the Foreign Office. The memorandum, produced by the Foreign Office in May 1935, is entitled 'The Seven Independent Arabian States' (identified as Yemen, Asir, the Hejaz, Nejd, Kowait, Jebel Shammar, and Jauf) and aims to provid...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1935-21 Jan 1936
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/12/2090

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2090
Title:
Coll 6/23 'Yemen: Relations with Egypt.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns both Egyptian-Hejazi and Egyptian-Yemeni relations. The file consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, most of which is between the High Commissioner in Egypt (George Ambrose Lloyd, succeeded by Sir Percy Loraine) and officials of the Foreign Office. The correspon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Mar 1929-25 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/12/2142

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2142
Title:
Coll 6/69 'Affairs in the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
This file mainly consists of copies of received Colonial Office correspondence relating to political and domestic affairs in the Yemen. Of particular note are copies of two memoranda, forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Governor of Aden (Bernard Rawdon Reilly) and writt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1935-14 Oct 1937
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/2073

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2073
Title:
Coll 6/9 'Jeddah Reports Jany 1931–'
Scope & Content:
This file consists almost entirely of copies (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) of printed reports sent either by the His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard), or, in the Mini...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1931-31 Mar 1938
Extent:
1 file (399 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/12/2158

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2158
Title:
Coll 6/85 'Arabia. Boundaries in: Interpretation of Rome Understanding of 1927.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to boundaries in the Arabian Peninsula. The file begins with a Foreign Office memorandum (and an enclosed map) dated 30 April 1934, which provides a brief recent history of disputes and agreements regarding the eastern and south-eastern boundaries of modern-day Saudi Arabia. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Apr 1934-27 Nov 1937
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/12/2144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2144
Title:
Coll 6/71 'The Yemen: Relations with Germany.'
Scope & Content:
This file primarily concerns relations between the Yemen and Germany. The correspondence begins with details of a request received by the German Government from the Imam of Yemen [Yaḥyā Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn] for recognition and formal relations. Also discussed is the progress of negotiations f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1928-13 Nov 1930
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/12/2160B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2160B
Title:
Coll 6/88 'Intelligence: Military Report on Arabia (C.B. 1892).'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of two parts. The first part (folios 1-9) begins with a 'state of report' document for an Admiralty Naval Intelligence Division report entitled 'Arabia, Intelligence Report'; the 'state report' concerns the updating of the report in October 1941, and it includes a list of maps...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1932-7 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (63 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/12/2156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2156
Title:
Coll 6/83 'Saudi Arabia: Exemption of Saudi nationals from Koshan tax.'
Scope & Content:
This file documents the British response to a recent Saudi royal command exempting Saudi nationals from paying a tax known as koshan (a tax levied on journeys from Jedda to Mecca or Medina) during the off-season, i.e. the four-month period of the year when pilgrims are not travelling to or retur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1937-12 May 1939
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/12/2159

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2159
Title:
Coll 6/86 'Saudi Arabia and Yemen: Relations with Japan.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns Saudi-Japanese relations. (Yemen is mentioned in the file's original title, but no reference to Yemen is made in the surviving correspondence.) It includes discussion of the following: Reports in 1938 of a Saudi Government representative having suggested to his Japanese count...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 May 1938-10 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)