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421. IOR/L/PS/18/B287

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B287
Title:
Summary of the Hejaz Revolt
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a report prepared by the General Staff, War Office, dated 31 Aug 1918. It is a summary of the Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] Revolt (commonly referred to as the Arabic Revolt) in the context of the First World War, covering the period June 1916 to December 1918. The memorandum is ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1918
Extent:

15 folios

422. IOR/L/PS/18/B23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B23
Title:
Shahr and Makulla. Secret Letter from India, No. 16, Dated 2nd February 1881.
Scope & Content:
A letter and a short postscript, in which Arthur William Moore writes to the British Government describing an ongoing financial dispute between the chiefs of Shahr and Makulla, two principal ports on the south coast of Arabia. The author mentions the likelihood of the region falling into Turkish ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1881-1 Sep 1881
Extent:

6 folios

423. IOR/L/PS/18/B469

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B469
Title:
Agreement between [the] Ruler of Abu Dhabi and Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Ltd.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns an agreement between Shaikh Shakbut bin Sultan bin Za'id [Shaikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan], Ruler of Abu Dhabi, and Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, which relates to the Abu Dhabi oil concession of 11 January 1939. The agreement details the general terms and c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1939
Extent:

1 file (11 folios)

424. IOR/L/PS/18/B295

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B295
Title:
Memorandum on British Commitments to Bin Saud
Scope & Content:
This is a printed memorandum by the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office concerning British commitments to Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud)] in the context of the First World War. The memorandum gives an overview of British and Turkish r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

8 folios

425. IOR/L/PS/18/B245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B245
Title:
Extracts of Communications relating to the Permanent British Occupation of Basra
Scope & Content:
The item contains extracts from a letter, telegrams and a note, covering the period November 1914 to December 1916, and all relating to the permanent British Occupation of Basra: Extract from a letter from Sir Percy Zachariah Cox to Persian Gulf and other Chiefs, including the Sheikh of Mohamerr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1916
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

426. IOR/L/PS/18/B418

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B418
Title:
Dynastic Claims of the Imam of Sana'a to the Aden Protectorate
Scope & Content:
The file contains a note by George Stewart Symes (Political Resident and Commander-in-Chief, Aden) written to the Secretary of State, 22 October 1928, which introduces three enclosures. Enclosure 1: A note drawn up by Major Trenchard Craven William Fowle (First Assistant Resident, Aden) with a ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1929
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

427. IOR/L/PS/18/B420

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B420
Title:
Question of British Interference in the Administration of Bahrain
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, 28 August 1929. Printed in October 1929. Covering: a brief history of the development of British concern in the internal af...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1929
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

428. IOR/L/PS/18/B22/1b

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B22/1b
Title:
A Letter from Louis Mallet, India Office, to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, regarding the Italian Occupation of Assab Bay
Scope & Content:
A letter about the Italian occupation of Assab Bay, in which the author, Louis Mallet, India Office, suggests that a response to the Italian Ambassador be phrased only in general terms, as historical precedents have rendered the British position ambiguous. The author goes on to suggest that the B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1880
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

429. IOR/L/PS/18/B390

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B390
Title:
Memorandum. (a) the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. (b) His Highness the Sultan Saiyid Taimur Bin Faisal bin Turki.
Scope & Content:
Typescript memorandum (marked 'Book Copy' in the top left corner of the first page) giving information about the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman under the following headings: Territory, Historical, Physical Features, Climate, Population, Products and Trade, Religion, and Government (folios 150-154)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

430. IOR/L/PS/18/B452

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B452
Title:
His Excellency SHEIKH HAMAD BIN SHEIKH ISSA AL KHALIFAH SHEIKH of BAHREIN AND THE BAHREIN PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED. LEASE [COPY]
Scope & Content:
The file is a copy of a commercial lease between Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Sheikh of Bahrein, and the Bahrein Petroleum Company, in which the Sheikh grants to the company the exclusive right for fifty-five years to drill for, extract, treat, refine, and deal with petroleum products and n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

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