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ST. ANTONY'S COLLEGE, OXFORD
GUIDE TO THE MIDDLE EAST CENTRE ARCHIVE
Introduction
This Guide covers the majority of the collections held in the Middle East Centre Archive. At
present it does not cover collections that consist only of photographs. For example the Archive
holds a substantial Freya Stark photographic collection.
Where a more detailed description of a collection exists, this is indicated in this Guide by the word
‘Handlist’. If a collection holds photographs this is indicated at the end of the description by
‘Photographic collection’.
Please note that uncatalogued material appears at the end of this Guide.
Please note TS means typescript. MS means manuscript i.e. handwritten.
ADAMSON, Richard. GB165-0001
Accounts by a Palestine Police Officer of the Cairo conspiracy trial in 1919 and the riots in
Jerusalem, Easter 1920. 7 sheets. Handlist
ADDISON, Herbert. GB165-0002
Privately printed monograph The pleasures of Anglo-Egyptian cooperation, 1972; critique of
Jacques Berque’s Egypt; imperialism and revolution, 1973; memo by J. Cryer on British
schoolmasters in Egypt; papers relating to the Cairo Scientific Society 1898-1931; lists of British
Officials in the Egyptian service 1926-45; material relating to the development of the Helwan and
Maadi 1920s-50s; press-cuttings and pamphlets on Egypt 1938-49; material relating to the Anglo-
Egyptian Union 1942-49. 1 box. Handlist
ALLARD, W. (b. 1889). GB165-0003
Biographical note; letter to A.L. Odell, 29 November 1967, on British nationals seconded to work
under the Egyptian Government. 3 sheets. Handlist
ALLEN, Rt. Revd. Geoffrey Francis, Bishop in Egypt. (1902-82). GB165-0004
Collection of Diocesan Reviews for Egypt and Sudan 1947-52. 1 box. Handlist
ALLENBY, Field Marshal Sir Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo.
(1861-1936). GB165-0005
Photocopies of papers relating to the Middle East including: Palestine campaign - extracts from
letters to his wife up to and including the capture of Aleppo (1918) and his visit in February 1919
to Istanbul; letters and reports by eyewitnesses of the same period; letters from H. Chauvel; letters
to Sir Herbert Samuel, 1920-25; letter to Sir William Hayter 6 May 1924 on Saad Zaghlul; letters
elicited by Wavell for his “Egypt” volume; comments, mainly by Gerald Delany, on Wavell's
Allenby in Egypt. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic collection.
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AMAZALAK, Mayer H. and AMAZALAK, J.B. GB165-0007
Two poems on the coronation of Edward VII, printed Jaffa, 1902. 2 sheets. Handlist
AMOS, Sir (Percy) Maurice (Maclardie) Sheldon. (1872-1940). GB165-0008
Copy of letter to Sheldon Amos, 12 Nov. 1905, from Graham Wallas, on nascent nationalism in
the Middle East. 1 sheet. Handlist
ANCKETILL, Matthew David. GB165-0009
Photocopied TS of Strange Destiny unpublished biography of Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842),
artist, traveller and diplomat in Russia and Persia. 2 boxes. Handlist
ANDERSON, Margaret Grace. GB165-0511
Privately printed memoir entitled ‘Mussolini Changed my Life’, written by Dr Margaret Anderson
(née Smith). The memoir, which includes some photographs and also maps, documents Margaret
Anderson and her family’s movements during World War 2, specifically from December 1939 to
May 1946. During this time, the family moved from Glasgow to Sudan, then Southern Rhodesia
(now Zimbabwe) and later Cape Town. Margaret Anderson and her sister Jean fled from Sudan to
Rhodesia in 1940, following events relating to the Italian forces’ attack on the border with
Ethiopia. Other places visited include France, Beirut, Alexandria and Cairo. Along with personal
remembrance and a first person account of childhood and schooling in the British colonies, the
memoir includes information relating to the contemporary political and military context. 1 item.
Handlist.
ANTONIUS, George Habib. (1891-1942). GB165-0011
Reports and letters when Senior Associate in the Middle East of the Institute of Current World
Affairs on Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Iraq 1930-39, including notes on the case of Taha
Hussein, 1932, and on Saiyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani and Shaikh Muhammad ‘Abduh. 128
sheets. Handlist
ARAB BULLETIN. GB165-0012
Nos. 1-74 (microfilm); nos. 41-113 with supplements (1916-19). 1 reel; 1 box.
ARAB DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY. GB165-0324
Pamphlets, reports, newspaper cuttings and correspondence relating to the Arab Development
Society, the life of its founder Musa Alami and details of the Society’s legacy and supporters. Also
includes an album of professional photographs, along with loose photographs, documenting the
work of the Arab Development Society. 3 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
ARAMCO. GB165-0013
Report, 1961, by William Mulligan on the visit of King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud to ARAMCO,
January 1947. 1 vol.; 2 sheets.
ARCHIBALD, S.G. GB165-0014
Typescript proceedings of the “Commission de Réforme du Code de Procédure Civile Indigène”
1914, and “Commission des Capitulations” 1918, of the Government of Egypt, with associated
material. 3 boxes. Handlist.
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ARDAGH, Col. Sir John Charles. (1840-1907). GB165-0015
Diaries of travel 1875-86, comprising Italy, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, Asia Minor,
Caucasus, Russia, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, (privately printed); 3 letters, March 1908, from Susan,
Countess of Malmesbury to Sir William Everett. 1 vol.; 3 sheets. Handlist.
AREF EL-AREF. (1892-1973). GB165-0016
TS diaries (in Arabic): Amman diary, 1926-28; Gaza diary, July 1939-June 1940. 1 box. Handlist.
ARMITAGE, Henry St John Basil (1924-2004). GB165-0377
TS Lecture ‘The Arab Legion of Jordan: To-day and yesterday’ by St J Armitage 25 Sept 1996;
TS lecture entitled ‘The Hijaz Railway’ by H St J.B. Armitage given at the T.E. Lawrence Society
Symposium, Exeter College, Oxford 14-15 Sept 2002; Pamphlet ‘History of the Railway Troops’
by Thalacker reporting on his experiences at Amman railway station regarding the 1918 retreat
from the Hedjas front. 1 file. Handlist
ARTHUR, Sir Geoffrey. (1920-1984). GB165-0430
Papers relating to Sir Geoffrey Arthur’s service as a senior diplomat in the Persian Gulf, when he
engineered negotiations which led to the creation of the United Arab Emirates. The collection
includes agreements, orders, resolutions, laws, statements, memoranda, agendas, minutes and
reports produced by or for the Provisional Union Council and the Supreme Council of the Union
of Arab Emirates. A small amount of material consists of correspondence between key players in
the negotiations, and articles analysing the situation. There are also two obituaries for Sir
Geoffrey Arthur. 1 box. Handlist.
ASHLEY, Edward. (1934-2001). GB165-0399
OMAN ARCHIVE: Papers relating to Edward Ashley’s service in the Sultan’s Armed Forces
Jebel Regiment Dhofar between 1970-1977, incorporating training materials including a training
booklet, ‘Know Your Enemy’ and ‘Jebel Regiment’s Standard Operating Procedures’; materials
on anti-guerrilla operations including ‘Commander’s Diary’, ‘Situation Reports’ and ‘Operation
Instructions’; including maps of areas which were used during the joint military operations;
‘Oman Humour’, including cartoons; congratulatory letters and Jebel Regiment awards; a staff list
of individuals who served in the Sultan’s Armed Forces, including a letter from ex-staff relating to
the establishment of the Sultan’s Armed Forces Museum; and photographic material relating to
Edward Ashley’s service in Oman, subsequent Sultan’s Armed Forces Association reunions
including a trip to Oman in 1984. 8 boxes. Handlist.
BAILEY, Sheilagh Elizabeth. (b.1929). GB165-0564
Interview and photographic material relating to Sheilagh Bailey’s work in Oman in the Palace
Office from 1972-1984 and later visits to Oman. In the interview Sheilagh Bailey discusses her
slides and photograph albums and their context. There are two boxes of 35mm slides relating to
Sheilagh Bailey’s work in Oman in 1972, and four photograph albums covering 1972-1980s, as
well as later return visits to Oman and Switzerland in 1998-1999. 3 boxes. Handlist. Photographic
collection.
BAIRD, Nina Isabel. (d.1919). GB165-0017
Papers and photographs relating to Nina Baird’s work with the Red Cross, at Cairo Citadel, and
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among the Bedouin at Amira consisting of a letter of sympathy from General Allenby to Sir
Alexander Baird 11 Aug 1919; an obituary of Nina Baird by Miss H. Ridler dealing with Nina
Baird’s work with the Red Cross at Cairo Citadel and among the Bedouin at Amira, 1915-1919.
22 photographs, mainly consisting of photographs of carpets, as well as some photographs of Nina
Baird. Handlist. Photographic collection.
BALL, Royston Arthur. (b.1928) GB165-0451
Memoirs ‘Palestine Service March 1947 to May 1948’ written by R.A. Ball (2nd Battalion,
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment) giving an account of his army service. 12 sheets. Handlist.
BALFOUR DECLARATION. GB165-0018
Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to the Balfour Declaration, 1917, assembled by Elizabeth
Monroe. 12 sheets; 1 item.
BARBOUR, Nevill. (1895-1974). GB165-0019
Copies of articles and broadcasts on the Middle East and North Africa, Zionism, the Arabic
language etc. , 1936-63, with an English translation of part of the memoirs of Sidqi Pasha; report
on Syria and Palestine presented by M. Etienne Flandin to the “Group senatorial pour la defénse
des interêts français à l’étranger”; pamphlet entitled “The Independence of Egypt” by a member of
the Egyptian delegation to London, January 1921; papers and correspondence relating to Taufiq
Hakim’s novel The Return of the Spirit, 1933-37; correspondence with Lt. Gen. Sir George
MacMunn regarding the latter’s article on Palestine, “Nisi Dominus”1950-51. 5 boxes. Handlist.
BAUER, Yehuda. (b.1926). GB165-0021
Letter to ‘Leni’ dated 22 Sept. 1962 with descriptive lists of organisations dealing with Jewish
refugees between 1933 and 1948. 2 sheets.
BARING, Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer. (1841-1917). GB165-0020
BARING, Rowland Thomas, 2nd Earl of Cromer. (1877-1953).
Letters to Harry and Clara Boyle, 1914 & 1929-36; material for the Marquess of Zetland’s
biography Cromer. 1 box. Handlist.
BBC Documentary: No Plan, No Peace. GB165-0429
Scripts for the two part BBC documentary ‘No Plan, No Peace: The inside story of Iraq’s descent
into chaos’ broadcast in October 2007 and transcripts of research interviews for the documentary
of key participants including Ahmed Chalabi, Ali Allawi, Barbara Bodine, Sir Christopher Meyer,
Clare Short, General Jay Garner, Colonel Larry Wilkerson, Paul Bremer, Colonel Paul Hughes, Sir
Jeremy Greenstock, Sir Michael Jackson, Stewart Bowen and Major General Tim Cross. 3 boxes.
Handlist.
BEASLEY, Dr. Ina M. , née Girdwood. (1898-1994). GB165-0022
Minutes of the Gordon Memorial College Council, 1944-1948; material on educational expansion
in Sudan: Southern Sudan, 1946-1950; Northern Sudan, 1947-1956. 1 box. Handlist.
BEAUMONT, Sir Richard Ashton. (1912-2009). GB165-0597
Papers mainly relating to Sir Richard Beaumont’s service in the Foreign Office, in particular his
service as Consul in Jerusalem in 1948 and his role in the Buraimi Oasis dispute with Saudi-
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Arabia in Jan-Oct 1960. Includes a handwritten chronology of events in Palestine and Jerusalem in
the period Feb-Dec 1948, with personal diary notes, and photocopies of documents held by The
National Archives, perhaps compiled for research purposes. There is also a small amount of
material relating to Lebanon and Syria during World War II, as well as a collection of newspaper
clippings, 1979-1995, reporting on events in the Middle East. 1 box. Handlist.
BELL, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian. (1868-1926). GB165-0023
Copy of travel diary of a journey to Hayyil, Jan.-May 1914; letters to Humphrey Bowman, 1920-
25, and Lord Allenby,13 May 1920; C. J. Edmonds’ lecture “Gertrude Bell in the Near and Middle
East”; W.C. Donkin’s catalogue, The letters and papers of Gertrude Bell, Newcastle, 1966. 1
box. Handlist. Photographic collection.
BENNETT, Arthur L. GB165-0024
Papers as R.A.F. member of Combined UK/US/Iranian team seconded to central staff of the
Imperial Iranian Armed Forces, 1970-72, including the team’s report on the Joint College of the
Armed Forces, Tehran, and a military training exercise. 1 box. Handlist.
BENTWICH, Norman de Mattos. (1882-1971). GB165-0025
Personal correspondence, correspondence in Arabic and English received as Legal Secretary to
Government of Palestine, 1921-1929; papers on legal administration under the Palestine and
Iraq Mandates; papers relating to his work in Ethiopia, 1943, and material on Ethiopia’s claim
to Eritrea and Somalia, Falasha Jews. Notes of interviews in Paris relating to efforts to help
Jewish refugees from Germany, 1934. 2 boxes. Handlist.
BESLEY, Judge Ernest Francis Withers. (1891-1965). GB165-0026
Lecture on the judicial system in Egypt, 21 Feb. 1935; record of judgement in a test case on
British nationality, 1940. 21 sheets.
BESSE, ANTONIN GB165-0353
Illustrated book commissioned by Antonin Besse on traditional boats in Aden entitled ‘Les
derniers boutres d’Aden’ 1984. 1 volume
BILLINGSLEY, Laurence (b.1927) GB165-0524
Postcard and photographs from Laurence Billingsley’s Army Service in Palestine, 1946-1948,
including a postcard of the troop ship M.V. Dunnottar-Castle, photographs of Army camps, fires
at Peninsula Barracks and the oil refinery in Haifa, the funeral of Corporal Hand and the hanging
of Sergeants Martin and Paice by the Irgun in August 1947. Also includes a photographic
reproduction of a propaganda leaflet from the A.M.O addressed ‘To the British Members of the
Palestine Police and to the members of his Majesty’s Forces’ and a Gold Star beer bottle label.
Handlist. Photographic Collection.
BIRDWOOD, Field Marshal Sir William Riddell, 1st Baron Birdwood. (1865-1951).
GB165-0028
Comments and marginal notes on P.G. Elgood’s The Army in Egypt1914-18. 23 sheets.
BLACKBURN, Donald. (1902-1996). GB165-0378
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Booklets and a note relating to Church history consisting of a ‘Handbook of the Anglican
Bishopric in Jerusalem and the East’, ‘Some Ancient and Younger Churches in Egypt’ and ‘The
Eastern Church: A brief note’; a TS account giving a description of how Archdeacon Campbell
was shot during fighting in Jerusalem in 1948; a speech by Nasser after the laying of the
foundation stone of the Copt Cathedral in 1964; a TS account ‘Civil War in Jordan, September
1970’ by Winifred Coate and 22 photographs mainly of Church events including a group
photograph of the Palestine Church Council in March 1949 and the Arab Episcopal Church
Council in 1955. 1 file and 22 photographs. Handlist. Photographic Collection.
BLATCHFORD, Edward Williams. (1868-1956). GB165-0029
Obituary notices of E.W. Blatchford, US Vice-Consul in Jerusalem, 1930-48, with a covering
letter to Humphrey Bowman from Blatchford’s cousin Grace Wilson. 4 sheets.
BLENKINSOP, Frederick William Geoffrey. (1907-46). GB165-0030
Private memo on the Arab-Zionist conflict, 2 November 1944. 6 sheets.
BLYTH, Miss Estelle. (1881-1983). GB165-0031
Papers relating to her father the Rt. Revd. G.F. Popham Blyth, Bishop in Jerusalem; copy of The
All Highest goes to Jerusalem, being the diary of the German Emperor’s journey to the Holy
Land, London, 1918; House of Lords Debates, notes, policy statements, etc. on Palestine 1920-39,
with a few press cuttings. 1 box. Photographic collection.
BOUSTEAD, Col. John Edmund Hugh. (1895-1980). GB165-0032
“Report on the Sudan Defence Force” 1940-41; memo on agricultural development in E. Aden,
1949-58; “Review of the progress and development department Muscat and Oman” 1958-61; draft
autobiography. 2 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
BOWEN, H.C. GB165-0033
MS of unpublished book on Nizam ul-Mulk; notes on the Arabs in Spain and Sicily, 8-11th
centuries; MS of 6 lectures on the Arab conquest on North Africa and Spain; sources for a history
of Muslims in Europe; notes on various aspects of Islamic history; lecture and course notes on the
history of the Ottoman Empire. 5 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
BOWMAN, Humphrey Ernest. (1879-1965). GB165-0034
Diaries 1903-49, including Egypt 1903-11, Sudan 1911-14, Iraq 1918-20, Palestine 1921-37;
personal letters, mostly from Sir Hugh Bell and Sir Ronald Storrs, 1910-54; appointment as
Director of Education, Mesopotamia, 1917-20; offers of service in Egyptian Ministry of
Education, 1919-20; secondment to Government of Palestine, 1920; correspondence 1922-25 with
the Egyptian Government re. pension; Palestine Royal Commission on Education - miscellaneous
papers; personal letters to parents; lectures and miscellanea about General Gordon; lectures and
book reviews; testimonials, etc.; correspondence with High Commissioner, Palestine, 1934-36;
correspondence re. retirement, 1937. 8 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
BOYLE, Harry. (1863-1937). GB165-0035
Correspondence with his wife and mother, 1884-1923; miscellaneous personal papers; letters to
Lord Rennell of Rodd, 11 Oct. 1902 and 21 April 1907; memo of 1905 on the historic background
of the British occupation of Egypt; confidential despatch to Sir Edward Grey, 16 August 1908;
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Milner Mission, 1921: letters and a memo. 4 boxes. Handlist.
BRADDICK, Bertie. GB165-0394
Oral history interview of Bertie Braddick, who served in the Palestine Police 1947-1948,
interviewed by William Ward on 7 May 2006. Sound file 76 minute. Transcript 15 sheets. 2 items.
BRASSEY GOTTLIEB, H. GB165-0036
Letter to ‘John’ of 19 August 1969 giving his impressions of T.E. Lawrence. 3 sheets.
BREBBER, Alexander. (1896-1991) GB165-0387
Papers relating to Brebber’s work as President of a Military Court at the end of the Palestine
Mandate including Defence Emergency Regulations, Military Court Procedures and papers
relating to the ‘Jerusalem Railway Station Trial’ in 1947, in which four men were accused of
planting bombs at the station on 30 Oct 1946. Also includes a ‘Short Handbook of Palestine’
published by ‘G.S.I., H.Q., Palestine’ and the book ‘The Palestine Mandate Invalid and
Impracticable’ by W.F. Boustany, 1936 and 6 newspaper clippings mainly relating to Israel’s
borders and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1956-1972. 1 box. Handlist.
BRIAN LAPPING ASSOCIATES LTD: THE FIFTY YEARS WAR: ISRAEL AND THE
ARABS GB165-0346
Transcripts of research interviews made during the production of the television series ‘The Fifty
Years War: Israel and the Arabs’ which was produced for BBC Television by Brian Lapping
Associates Ltd and broadcast in 1998. Key Israeli, Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian, Egyptian,
Syrian, Russian and American participants were interviewed. 11 boxes. Handlist.
BRIDGEMAN, Hon. Geoffrey John Orlando. (1898-1974). GB165-0037
Brief note of his eyewitness account of the capture of Jerusalem, 1917. 1 sheet.
BRITISH DIPLOMATIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE MIDDLE EAST
GB165-0321
TS texts of, or notes for, lectures in the series “British Diplomatic Perspectives on the Middle
East” given at the Middle East Centre, 15 October-3 December 1999 by Sir James Craig, Sir
Marrack Goulding, Sir John Coles, Hon. Ivor Lucas, Christopher Long, Sir Alan Munro, Lord
Wright of Richmond, and Sir David Gore-Booth, giving their personal reflections on British
diplomacy in the Middle East during their years of service. 1 box.
BRITISH PALESTINE POLICE ASSOCIATION. GB165-0591
The British Palestine Police Association Newsletter Number 1, Spring 2014 which includes the
minutes of the inaugural meeting, the constitution of the new association, as well as news of future
association events, a short history of the Palestine Police Force, an article on the Transjordan
Frontier Force and news of former Palestine Policemen including obituaries. Also includes
Newsletter Number 2, Summer 2014 which contains articles on the British Gendarmerie, PPOCA
trips to the Holy Land and Jordan, the Story of the Spafford Children’s Centre Old City Jerusalem
and Gaza the first step towards the Mandate. Newsletter Number 3, Winter 2014 includes details
of the first BPPA weekend and the Annual General Meeting. 3 items. Handlist.
BRITISH SYRIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION. GB165-0397
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Legal document entitled ‘British Syrian Schools Duplicate Declaration of Trust of property in
Syria and elsewhere belonging to the Association’. The document notes that the British Syrian
Schools Association was loaned £1,500 by Mentor Mott in 1877 using the property of the
Association as security for the loan as well as setting out some rules and regulations for the
running of the Association such as voting rights at General meetings and the granting to Augusta
Mott and Susette Harriet Smith the right to hire and dismiss staff and manage the running of the
schools and other institutions. The document also includes a supplemental indenture in which
Mentor Mott relinquished his claim to the loaned money in 1887. 1 item. Handlist.
BROADHURST, Brig. Ronald Joseph Callender. (b. 1906). GB165-0038
Papers on customs matters and oil prospection in Egypt, 1886-87; MS diary of the Nile Expedition
of 1889 by an unnamed soldier of the 86th Foot, with cuttings of the period; reports of handling
of smugglers by the Egyptian Coast Guard Service, 1889-90. 1 box.
BRODIE, Donald Haig (1917-1981). GB165-0581
Two photograph albums containing photographs relating to Donald Brodie’s service in the
Palestine Police between 1937 and 1942. The first largely contains personal photos and includes
scenes of police officers and soldiers at work and rest, accommodation, posts and checkpoints,
police and military vehicles, landscapes, places of interest and daily life. Also includes images
documenting attacks carried out by Irgun, such as the bombing of the Jerusalem General Post
Office on 12 June 1939. The second photograph album mostly contains propaganda photographs
relating to the Arab Revolt in 1936-1939, presumably collected by Donald Brodie. There is also a
small collection of prints containing copies of photographs found in the first album and a single
newspaper clipping from 1939 containing a pictorial history of Palestine. Handlist. Photographic
collection.
BROWN, David Oliver (b.1926). GB165-0461
A short account of David Brown's Army Service in Egypt and Palestine 1945-1947 and a
photocopy of an account of David Brown's Army Service from the War Time News May 2003. 1
file (5 sheets). Handlist.
BRUCE OF KINNAIRD, James. (1730-1794). GB165-0039
Article by Sir Duncan Cumming in the Geographical Journal 137, I, 1971: “Seven unpublished
letters of James Bruce of Kinnaird”. 1 vol.
BRUNTON, Capt. Chisholm Dunbar. (b.1887). GB165-0040
“Who's Who” in Damascus, 1919; papers on the political situation in Palestine, 1920-21; proposal
for a Jordan “Reserve Force” 11 September 1920; article by Uriel Dann “The Beginning of the
Arab Legion” reprinted from Middle Eastern Studies. 33 sheets; 2 items.
BRYCE, James, Viscount Bryce. (1838-1922). GB165-0041
Three letters relating to the problem of introducing Jewish settlers into Palestine, 1915-19. 7
sheets.
BUCCIANTI, Alexandro (b.c1772). GB165-0416
Journal, in Italian, recording the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon covering the period 1796-1801
written by Alexandro Buccianti in 1847 with an English translation of the journal made by Alfred
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Hall in 1901. The journal is written as an eye witness account although it is likely that Alexandro
Buccianti supplemented the account from other sources as well. 2 boxes. Handlist.
BULLARD, Sir Reader William. (1885-1976). GB165-0042
Circular letters to his family, 1923-25 & 1934-45; material for memoirs, The Camels Must Go; an
account of recruitment to the Levant Consular Service and other writings. 3 boxes. Handlist.
BURT, John. (b.1925). GB165-0460
A memoir of ‘The Army Service of 14935920 Sergeant John Burt Royal Signals February 1945 –
April 1948’ describing his service in 2 Company Palestine Command Signals based in Haifa
which was responsible for all the trunk and local communications in North Palestine for military
units. 1 item. Handlist.
BUTLER, Michael Paul. (b.1940). GB165-0563
Memoir ‘Travels with a Camel’ that provides an account of a 6 week trip in 1965 from Dhofar to
Ibri, written by Michael Butler in 1966 with some revision and photographs incorporated into the
text in 2011. Memoir ‘Al Ain 1968-1970’ covering Michael Butler’s service in Abu Dhabi, mainly
as Deputy Director of Security in the police at a Special Branch at Al Ain in the Buraimi Oasis. 1
file. Handlist.
CAIRO CONFERENCE 1921. GB165-0045
Photocopies of selected reports, minutes, agenda, etc. for the Cairo Conference on Middle Eastern
Affairs, March 1921 1 box.
CAIRO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. (1898-1951) GB165-0046
Papers relating to the Cairo Scientific Society, established in Cairo by the British community in
1898, comprising the minute books of the Society, recording the meetings, papers presented and
Society outings, and four volumes of the Cairo Scientific Journal 1906-1910, which published
papers presented to the Society. 3 boxes. Handlist.
CAMERON WATT, Prof. Donald. (b. 1928) GB165-0296
Press-cutting collection from British newspapers covering: oil; the Arabian peninsula; Middle East
(in general); Egypt; Cyprus; Malta; Eisenhower Doctrine; Iran; Lebanon; Libya; Iraq Revolution;
Israel; Jordan; Syria; Turkey; Sudan; French North Africa; Somaliland; the Suez Crisis; some
maps. 11 boxes. Handlist.
CAMPBELL, T.J. GB165-0047
Descriptive notes by T.J. Campbell of the Survey Department of Egypt on the district lying
between the Mediterranean and Lake Burollos, Lower Egypt, c.1912. 4 sheets.
CANNINGS, Victor Henry Douglas (b.1919) GB165-0386
Papers relating to service in the British Mandate Palestine Police including a Police identity card,
Criminal Code Ordinance for 1936, Palestine Police Magazines 1939-1947, 3 photographs of the
Palestine Police Cricket Team, Certificate of Discharge from the Police and an oral history
interview carried out in 2006 covering Cannings’ service in the Palestine Police. Also including a
booklet on Jerusalem promoting the work of the Jewish Agency and press cuttings covering
bombings and deteriorating security in Palestine 1944-1946 and an essay on Canning’s later
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Cricket Career, 1958. 1 box. Handlist.
CARD, John Glenville. (b.1926) GB165-0391
Oral history interview of John Card, who served in the Palestine Police 1945-1948, interviewed by
Jordan Toone on 31 Mar 2006. Sound file 68 minutes. Summary of interview 2 sheets and
transcript 24 sheets. 3 items. Handlist.
CARLETON, Dr. Alford. GB165-0048
Correspondence with the Bishop in Jerusalem,1941, and Gen. Sir Maitland Wilson,1942-48, on
the situation in Vichy Syria. 24 sheets.
CARVER, P. GB165-0049
Photocopy of a lecture of 15 Sept. 1927 on the cotton industry in Egypt. 10 sheets.
CASSELS, Gervase de la Poer. (1915-91). GB165-0050
Memoir, as Deputy Director of UNWRA in Jordan, of the Six Day War, 1967; personal account of
his involvement in the Libyan federal elections, 1951-52. 2 folders.
CHANCELLOR, Sir John Robert. (1870-1952). GB165-0051
Proclamation of 1 Sept. 1929 re. the Wailing Wall riots. Copies in English, Arabic and Hebrew
and a photocopy of a letter from J.R. Chancellor to Lord Stamfordham (27 May 1930) intended as
a private letter to King George V. The letter expresses Chancellor’s views concerning restriction
of Jewish immigration, sales of Arab land, the attitude of both Jews and Arabs toward the mandate
in Palestine and his recommendation as to policy and course of action Britain should take in the
light of his assessment of the situation in Palestine. 2 folders. Handlist.
CHATHAM HOUSE. GB165-0052
Royal Institute of International Affairs. Mediterranean Study Group Reports 1-27, 31-44, 1956-57;
agendas of meetings and discussion notes, 1956-57; draft report; correspondence, notes,
memoranda 1956-57; D. Rockefeller: “Our stake in the Middle East”; All Soul’s Group: report of
a meeting, February 8-9 1958. 1 box.
CHAVASSE, Rev. Evelyn (1906-1991) and CHAVASSE, Timothy. GB165-0053
Two eye-witness accounts of the EOKA B coup against President Makarios of 15 July 1974, and
the subsequent Turkish invasion of 26 July 1974. 20 sheets.
CHEESMAN, Edith. GB165-0054
Mesopotamia (Iraq); watercolours, London &c., 1922. 1 vol.
CHEETHAM, Sir Milne. (1869-1938). GB165-0055
Private letters and telegrams to Sir Arthur Nicolson, Sir Louis Mallet, Sir Eldon Gorst and Lord
Kitchener on British policy in Egypt, 1910-14; letters from R.S. Patterson, Sir R. Graham, Lords
Allenby and Milner relating to Egypt, 1919-20. 1 box. Handlist.
CHEHAB, Emir Farid (1908-1985). GB165-0384
Lebanese intelligence reports and analysis, in Arabic, covering internal Lebanese politics,
communist parties in the Middle East and political developments in Syria, Morocco, Turkey,
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Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Israeli and Palestinian politics, 1945-1983. 12
boxes. Handlist.
CHIROL, Sir (Ignatius) Valentine. (1852-1929). GB165-0056
Letter to [Sir Hugh] Bell, 1 March 1920, and memo on Egyptian nationalism, 1920. 14 sheets.
CLAYTON, Brig.-General Sir Gilbert Falkingham. (1875-1929). GB165-0057
Photocopy of letter to Sir Reginald Wingate, 3 August 1916, on current situation in Cairo. 10
sheets.
CLAYTON, Brig. Sir Iltyd Nicholl. (1886-1955). GB165-0058
Memoirs of the siege of Kufa, by Major Norbury; Palestine Command Papers (Balfour
Declaration to 1939, bound in hard covers); MS of partial memoirs to 1929; copy of Albert.
Hourani’s “Great Britain and Arab nationalism, 1943”; paper “A future for Palestine” with related
correspondence and other correspondence on Palestine, 1944 and later; papers on Lebanon, by
Charles Malik, 1944; Musa Alami’s Land Development Scheme, with related correspondence,
1946; typescript of Sir G.F. Clayton's Diary of a mission to Ibn Saud; anon. typescript “A
background to British Council work in Egypt”; paper “Islam”; review of Chaim Weizmann’s
Trial and Error. 2 boxes. Handlist.
CLEAVER, Percy (1915-1998) GB165-0358
Recruitment film for the Palestine Police, not dated c1946. The commentary for the film was
written by Rex Keating. Photocopies of letters from Percy Cleaver to his aunt and uncle Feb 1936-
June 1938. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic collection. Please contact the Archivist in advance to
arrange a viewing of the film.
CLIVE, Nigel David. (1917-2001). GB165-0059
Photocopies of fragments of a diary kept April-June, 1948 in Palestine; situation reports from
Haifa, etc. dated June, 1948; letter, 23 October 1976, outlining his Palestine connection. 40
sheets.
COATE, Winifred A. (1893-1977). GB165-0060
Letter to Stewart Perowne, 5 July 1971, on conditions in Jordan in 1971. 1 sheet.
[Further papers in Jerusalem & the East Mission collection.]
COGHILL, Sir (Marmaduke Nevill) Patrick (Somerville), 6th Baronet. (1896-1981).
GB165-0061
Diary 1941-45, and autobiography “Before I forget”. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic collection.
COLLARD, J. GB165-0062
Report on Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, Cyrenaica 14 October 1941-31 January
1942 by Brig. S.H. Longrigg; reports and memoranda on Cyrenaica, 1943-45; Tripolitania, 1943-
44. 1 box. Handlist.
COOPER, Derek and Pamela GB165-0363
Beirut Diary 1 July – 13 Aug 1982 by Derek Cooper, Beirut Diary 1 July – 13 Aug 1982 by
Pamela Cooper, photocopy of a letter of thanks for good service from RB Spicer (Inspector
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General, Palestine Police) to GD Cooper (Special Constable Palestine Police) 4 Dec 1933,
Photocopy of the article ‘Palestine Paradox by Major E.M. Turnbull. The Life Guards’ in the
Household Brigade Magazine, Spring 1948, photocopy of the article ‘Evacuation of Palestine,
May, 1948 By Capt D.L.S. Hodson, The Life Guards’ in the Household Brigade Magazine,
Autumn 1948. 1 box. Handlist.
COOTE, Sir Eyre. see CRAMER-ROBERTS, F.
CONTENT PRODUCTIONS LTD: ‘Promises & Betrayals: Britain and the Struggle for the
Holy Land’ GB165-0352
Research interviews and the text of the documentary ‘Promises & Betrayals: Britain and the
Struggle for the Holy Land’. The documentary considers the conflicting promises made by Britain
during the First World War such as the Balfour Declaration, Sykes-Picot agreement and the
Anglo-French Declaration and the consequences of these promises. The academics interviewed
include Youssef Choueiri, Christopher Coker, Fred Halliday, Mark Levene, Dominic Lieven, Avi
Shlaim and the former British Ambassador to Egypt, Sir Michael Weir.1 box. Handlist.
CORKILL, Dr. Norman Lace. (1898-1966). GB165-0063
Papers relating to the life and work of Dr Norman Corkill, as a Doctor and Health and Hygiene
advisor in various parts of the Middle East, including his reports on the health and hygiene
situations of Saudi Arabia in 1948, Palestinian refugees in 1951, Eastern Aden in 1953, Iran in
1963 and Abu Dhabi in 1964; his diary and an incomplete draft of his autobiography,
correspondence and a printed bound report entitled ‘A Nutritional Economic Survey of Wartime
Palestine, 1942-1943’. 2 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
CORNWALLIS, Sir Kinahan. (1883-1959). GB165-0064
Photocopy of letter,17 May 1939, to Lord Wavell on Allenby-Feisal interview in Damascus of 3
October 1918; order of service for memorial service for King Feisal II, the Crown Prince of Iraq
and General Nuri Al Said, 30 July 1958; letter, 24 August 1958, to Stewart Perowne about events
in Iraq. 4 sheets; 1 item.
COWELL, Hubert Russell. (1877-1967). GB165-0065
Note on the organisation of war savings, 1939-45 in the British colonies and Palestine. 6 sheets.
COX, Sir Percy Zachariah. (1864-1937) GB165-0341
Correspondence, mainly incoming, covering Sir Percy Cox’s career between 1895 and 1937; some
letters between Gertrude Bell and Arthur Hirtzel 1917-1920; correspondence with Lady Cox
1930s-1940s. 2 boxes. Handlist.
CRAMER-ROBERTS, Frank William. (d.1943). GB165-0066
Material for an unfinished book on Abercrombie’s 1801 campaign in Egypt including letters from
Sir Eyre Coote to Prince William of Gloucester. 2 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
CRANE, Charles Richard. (1858-1939). GB165-0067
Photocopies of letters from Arabia, winter 1926-27; photocopied extracts from Jidda diary, 1931;
extracts from unpublished, uncompleted MS by Edgar Snow of a biography of Crane. 59 sheets.
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CROSSMAN, Richard Howard Stafford. (1907-1974). GB165-0068
Records, cuttings, letters, drafts, etc. on the problems of the Anglo-American Committee and
UNSCOP, 1946-47, and the subsequent recognition of Israel; 13 private letters to Mrs. Zita
Crossman from Palestine, 1946-47, including one on a visit to Chaim Weizmann. 1 box.
Photographic collection.
CROWDY, Major J.D. (d. 1920). GB165-0069
Four letter books amounting to a diary of his service in the Mesopotamia campaign from Basra,
January 1916 to Bombay, December 1918, with maps. 1 box. Handlist.
CROWE, Sir Colin Tradescant. (1913-89). GB165-0070
TS account of the restoration of relations between the United Kingdom and the United Arab
Republic after the Suez episode, 1957-1961. 230 sheets.
CROWE, Sibyl. (1908-93). GB165-0071
“Les droits électoraux des indigènes musulmans d’Algérie”, typescript report on the legal status
and rights of the indigenous Moslem population of Algeria with a review of various proposals for
reform, 9 August 1939, in French (55 sheets). Presscuttings covering Morocco 1948-56, Tunisia
1946-53, French North Africa (in general) 1944-52 and Middle East (in general) 1944-52. 13
boxes. Handlist.
CUNNINGHAM, General Sir Alan Gordon. (1887-1983). GB165-0072
Official papers and telegrams from his period of office as the last High Commissioner, Palestine
(1945-1948) as well as some personal correspondence. The papers and telegrams cover subjects
including illegal immigration, the deteriorating security situation, proposed solutions, papers
relating to the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry and the United Nations Special Committee
on Palestine (UNSCOP) as well as preparations for the British withdrawal. 6 boxes. Handlist.
DALE, Thomas. GB165-0073
Notes by the Secretary of the Delta Land Investment Co. Ltd. on land development, etc. at Maadi
during his period of office in Egypt (pre-World War I to World War II); letter to Andrew Holden,
8 May 1970. 10 sheets.
DANN, Uriel. (1922-91). GB165-0074
Photocopy of TS article “The background to the beginnings of the Arab Legion” with comments
by F.G. Peake, c.1969. 24 sheets.
D’ARCY, Lt. Gen. John Conyers. (1894-1966). GB165-0075
Photocopies of letters to Gen. D’Arcy from Lord Gort,13 August 1945; Sir John Glubb, 4
December 1945, 12 March 1946 and 21 June 1948; Lt.-Gen. Sir E.H. Barker, 31 May 1946, 2 &
29 July 1946; Sir John Shaw, 15 June 1946; translation of Arabic speech by a representative of the
Jordanian Army on D’Arcy's departure. 17 sheets.
DAVIES, Reginald. (1887-1971). GB165-0076
TS of an interview given by Davies to Professor Gabriel Warburg, 28 September 1970, on his
career in the Sudan Political Service. 12 sheets.
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DAWKINS, J.M. GB165-0077
Presscutting volumes including cuttings from 1875, 1906-08, 1910-18, 1920-26, 1929 and 1939,
covering Persia, the Ottoman Empire and North Africa, the progress of the First World War, the
Consular Service, foreign affairs in general, Dawkins’ family, and Professor E.G. Browne. 4 vols.
DE BUNSEN, Sir Maurice William Ernest. (1852-1932). GB165-0078
Photocopy of Bunsen Committee report on Asiatic Turkey, 1915. (PRO: CAB 42/3/12). 32
sheets.
DEEDES, Brigadier-General Sir Wyndham Henry. (1883-1956). GB165-0079
Papers relating to Deedes’ service in Libya, Turkey, Palestine and Egypt including letters home
during his service and reforms of the Ottoman Gendarmerie in Libya in 1910-1911,
correspondence relating to his work as part of the Turkish Ministry of the Interior in Anatolia
1913-1914, papers relating to the Gallipoli and Palestine campaigns 1917-1919. Also includes
correspondence while Director of Public Security in Egypt, during his tenure in Palestine,
correspondence relating to his Zionist advocacy and contact with Zionist groups, and general
correspondence relating to Deedes’ career. 2 boxes. Handlist.
DEHQANI-TAFTI, Rt. Revd. Hassan Barnaba. (b. 1920). GB165-0080
Papers as President-Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, 1976-86. 1
box.
DEIGHTON, H. S. GB165-0081
TS extracts from the 1882 diary of Lady Anne Blunt (copy of MS in the British Library);
broadcast of 5 February 1949 “Palestine and the Powers”; TS extracts from papers by A.H.T.
Chisholm on the Cairo Arab Petroleum Congress, 1959. 79 sheets.
DE LACY, James Percival (1906-87). GB165-0082
MS notes on his service with the Northern Frontier Division, Palestine Police, 1937-39. 3 sheets.
DELANY, Gerald. (1885-1974). GB165-0083
Note on J.S. Spender’s contribution to the Egyptian settlement, 1921; undated notes on Lord
Lloyd, Saad Zaghlul, Nokrashy Pasha; MS of the final chapter of P.G. Elgood’s history of Egypt,
written during World War II and published in Arabic but never in English; memo on nationalism
and the peasantry in Egypt; article in the Spectator, 2 March 1945, on the murder of Ahmed
Maher Pasha; letters from 1st Earl Wavell on his life of Lord Allenby; letters from 2nd Earl
Wavell on the life of his father; letter to 2nd Earl Wavell, 27 July 1953, on the political situation
in Egypt during Wavell’s period of command in World War II. 2 folders.
DICKSON, Arthur G.M. GB165-0084
Memoirs of his career as a banker in the Middle East and elsewhere, 1890-1950. 12 sheets.
DICKSON, Lt.-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick. (1881-1959). GB165-0085
Childhood; letters from regiment in Ireland,1903; Gilgit and Bikaner,1912-14: letters to mother;
Mesopotamia campaign: letters to mother,1914-15; letters home,1915; letters from D. force, 1915-
16; miscellaneous career papers; Suk esh-Shuyukh: letters to mother,1915-18; pacification of
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Muntafik,1918-19; Iraq, 1917-19: events in Nasiriyeh, conditions of service, administration in
Basra and Baghdad vilayets; administration reports of the Kuwait Political Agency, 1918, 1921-
32; Bahrain, 1920 - Ibn Saud; diaries of mission in Bahrain, 1919-22; private letters of political
interest, mostly from Iraq and the Gulf to India, 1920s (including Sir Percy Cox, A.T. Wilson,
Philby, Bertram Thomas); reports from Hillah, 1921-22; Ojair conference papers, 1922; Kuwait
and the desert: articles and press-cuttings,1931-48; Kuwait: notes on trade 1932-33, and trade
supplies 1942; Kuwait diaries, 1937-58; Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and U.K.: treaties and conventions;
notes on Kuwait/Iraq boundaries, 1938; notes for a biography; presscuttings on the Middle East
1937-41 & 53-55. 17 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
DICKSON, John. (1847-1906). GB165-0086
Correspondence on travel, archaeology, etc. with Gertrude Bell and others, 1876-1906; diaries
kept as Consul in Damascus, 1882-88; family letters, 19th cent.; correspondence while Consul
General at Jerusalem, 1892-1906; letters from the Beirut, Damascus, and Jerusalem consulates,
1890s and 1900s. 3 boxes. Handlist.
DICKSON, Dame Violet Penelope. (1896-1991). GB165-0364
Photocopy of a TS account of Violet Dickson’s family history; MS description of each photograph
album; 12 photograph albums, 1956-1981, mainly covering Kuwait but also including a small
amount of photographs taken in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Sharjah, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Yemen as well as photographs of European countries and Africa. 12 Albums
and 13 sheets. Handlist.
DIGBY EL MEZRAB, Jane Elizabeth, formerly Lady Ellenborough. (1807-1881)
GB165-0087
Microfilm copy of housebook and accounts, Damascus, 1861-70. 1 reel.
DIXON, Catherine J. GB165-0088
MS diary 25 August-3 September “Adventures of four women who visited Petra in 1925”,
illustrated with 46 black and white photographs, giving an account of the journey from Jerusalem
to Petra and back. 1 vol.
DOBBS, Sir Henry Robert. (1871-1934). GB165-0089
TS text of memorial to Sir Henry Dobbs in the English church in Baghdad. 2 sheets.
DOUGHTY WYLIE, Col. Charles Hotham Montagu. (1868-1915). GB165-0090
TS extracts from letters to Gertrude Bell 1913-15, covering the conference on Albania, 1913,
negotiations re Lake Tsana, Abyssinia, 1914. 15 sheets.
DOWNIE, Sir Harold Frederick. (1889-1966). GB165-0091
TS transcript of a diary covering Downie’s wartime service in Mesopotamia, January-June 1916.
21 sheets.
DOWSON, Sir Ernest MacLeod. (1876-1950). GB165-0092
Letter, 25 September 1937, to F.M. Edwards on land taxation in Palestine. 2 sheets.
DOYLE, Denis E. (1911-94). GB165-0093
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Photocopies of letters, 1936-43, to his mother, Grace Doyle, written while working for Reuter’s
Commercial Information Service in Palestine, and war service in the Royal Army Service Corps.
1 box.
DRUMMOND, Antony John-Deane-. (1917-2012) GB165-0340
OMAN ARCHIVE: Typescript chapter entitled ‘22 Special Air Service Operations in Muscat &
Oman 1958/59’ with accompanying photographs and sketches, also including a photocopy of an
account of the military operation in Oman in The Times April 9 1959. Handlist. 1 box
DUCHESNE, Martin. GB165-0390
Oral history interview of Martin Duchesne, who served in the Palestine Police 1946-1948,
interviewed by Nick Kardahji on 23 Mar 2006 and a talk at the seminar on the Palestine Police
with a question and answer session on 23 Nov 2006. Interview sound file 108 minutes and talk
sound file 24 minutes. Summary of interview 2 sheets and transcript 20 sheets. 4 items.
DUNLOP-SMITH, Lt.-Col. Sir James Robert. (1858-1922). GB165-0094
Photocopy of two accounts by the Revd.Hunter Smith of fighting at Gallipoli, July and September
1915. 29 sheets.
EDMONDS, Cecil John. (1889-1979). GB165-0095
Papers relating to his service in Iraq, 1915-45, including: papers on his service as Administrative
Inspector, 1922-24; Liaison Officer to the Mosul Commission, 1925-26; papers, correspondence,
and maps relating to Edmond’s work in the consular service in North Persia, Iraq and Kurdistan;
official reports 1910-46; tour notes and draft reports 1914-40s; topographical notes; notes on the
tribes of Kurdistan; personal correspondence 1913-77; lectures and articles; large collection of
maps; diaries 1912-1975; typescript memoirs “East & West of Zagros”. 28 boxes. Handlist.
Photographic collection.
EDWARDS, Francis Millward (1886-1976). GB165-0096
Papers relating to the work of Francis Edwards as a Civil Servant in Egypt in the 1920s, including
papers and reports on Egyptian rural problems and provincial taxation, reports on a visit by Saad
Zaghlul to Upper Egypt, October 1921; book reviews by Edwards including reviews of books by
Philby and Glubb; essays on early Muslim and English travellers. 1 box. Handlist.
EDWARDS, Francis William [Frank] (b. 1931). GB165-0442
Papers relating to the book ‘The Gaysh’ which is a history of the Aden Protectorate Levies 1927-
1961 and the Federal Regular Army of South Arabia 1961-1967, including the typescript of ‘The
Gaysh’ written in 1967-1968 with original photographs and a small amount of material from
Frank Edwards’ service in Aden c.1964-1965. There is also correspondence relating to the first
attempt to publish ‘The Gaysh’ in 1968-1969, and correspondence and newspaper clippings
relating to the publication and promotion of ‘The Gaysh’ in January 2004. There is a small amount
of material relating to Frank Edwards’ work with Colonel Gadaffi in the Libyan Army. The
collection includes photocopies of photographs taken in Aden c.1948-1958 and a student exercise
map of the Aden Protectorate, both given to Frank Edwards by Hugh Witherow in 2004. 2 boxes.
Handlist. Photographic collection.
EDWARDS, Stephen (1912-1997). GB165-0354
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Personal papers relating to Stephen Edwards’ service in the Palestine Police 1936-1948 consisting
of his service record booklet and papers mainly relating to pay, conditions of service and the end
of the mandate. 1 box. Photographic collection.
EGYPT. GB165-0325
Photocopy of threatening leaflet addressed to British families in the Canal Zone signed “Defenders
of Islam”, c.1950; photocopy of “List of papers of the ‘Urabi Revolution, 1881-82” in the archives
of the Ministry of War, Cairo, n.d.; duplicated seminar programme “ The Egyptian Army in
modern and contemporary history” given by the Egyptian Army Club of the Ministry of Defence
War College, April 1981. 3 folders.
ELGOOD, Lt.-Col. Percival George. (1863-1941). GB165-0097
Egypt. Cairo, 1942 (repr. of 1935 edn.). 1 vol.
ELKINGTON, A.E.H. (d. 1974). GB165-0098
Papers on economic conditions in Cyrenaica, 1943. 170 sheets; 1 item.
ELPHINSTON, Col. William Graham (1886-1952) GB165-0320
Papers mainly relating to Elphinston’s role as Assistant Political Officer at Arab Punar 1918–1919
including a memoir and photographs relating to the Berazi Kurds, as well as a TS text of a lecture
giving a strategic analysis of cavalry operations in Palestine of 1918; a TS report ‘Operations in
Kurdistan’; correspondence with the family of Mustafa Shahin 1947-1952 and also with
G.W.Bedir-Khay 1947–1948. Also includes a series of lectures given to the Royal Air force
(R.A.F.) Intelligence School 1947–1948 relating to British policy and the Middle East. 1 box.
Handlist.
EMERY, Miss Susanna Pearce. (1896-1986). GB165-0099
MS letters written to her family during the course of her career as a teacher at Jerusalem Girls'
College and Headmistress of the English High School, Haifa, 1919-30 & 1932-48; three TS
volumes of autobiography drawn from the letters. 3 boxes. Handlist.
EMERY, Victor. (b.1924). GB165-0452
Letter from Victor Emery describing his Army service in Palestine, 1945-1946, photocopies of 5
photographs showing Emery in Egypt and Camp 71 as well as the Hadera Coastguard station after
it had been blown up on 20 Jan 1946 and a photocopy of a newspaper clipping showing the
Hadera Coastguard station prior to its destruction. Also includes a second more detailed account
of Victor Emery’s life and service in Egypt and Palestine including descriptions of leisure
activities, contact with Jews and Arabs, relations with the Palestine Police and the level of news
received in the Camp of events happening elsewhere in Palestine as well as a photocopy of a
photograph of Victor Emery in 1943. 24 sheets. Handlist.
EVERETT, Sir William. (1844-1908). GB165-0100
Papers on his service as Military Consul at Erzerum 1879-85, including: diary, 1879-82; letters
1886-88 from consulates at Erzerum, Diyarbekir, etc. following his return to England; maps of the
Ottoman Empire. 4 boxes. Handlist.
FARADAY, John Alexander Mulloy. (1899-1986). GB165-0101
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Papers relating to the Safad disturbances of 1929 and the Jaffa riots of 1933. 2 boxes. Handlist.
Photographic collection.
FARNALL, Harry de la Rosa Burrard. (1852-1929). GB165-0102
Cartoon of Harry Farnall, Commissaire-Directeur à la Caisse de la Dette Publique, by Juan Sintes
in the series “Les hommes du jour” in L'Egypte Nouvelle captioned “A qui puis-je encore faire du
bien?” 1 sheet.
FAROUK, King of Egypt. (1920-65). GB165-0103
Copies of Empire News 12, 19, 26 October; 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 November; 7, 14, 21, 28 Dec. 1952
and 4, 11 January 1953 containing Farouk's own account of his decline and fall. 22 sheets.
FARRELL, Wilfrid Jerome. (1882-1960). GB165-0104
Photocopy of memoirs, “Pedagogue’s progress: reminiscences of Mesopotamia, Transcaucasia,
and Palestine.”; The Distribution of Educational Benefits in Palestine by Farrell, 1945. 185
sheets; 1 item.
FEISAL, Emir of Hijaz (later King of Iraq). (1885-1933). GB165-0105
Intelligence and other miscellaneous documents in Arabic and English, 1916-19, 1939, 1941,
1965, including correspondence with Gen. Gouraud, Lord Allenby, Col. Joyce and others; details
of Feisal’s visit to London 1933; copies of agreements with Dr. Weizmann, Akaba, June 1918
and London, 3 Jan. 1919; copies of documents from the Syrian Archives on Feisal’s rule in
Damascus, 1919-20. 1 box.
FELGATE, Frederick Albert (1915-1976). GB165-0546
Papers, photographs and artefacts relating to the life of Frederick Felgate and his service in the
Palestine Police Force from 1941-1948 including his enlistment, training and discharge, his police
notebook, a map of Palestine from 1944 and a ‘General Situation Samaria District’ file containing
detailed daily reports of incidents such as sabotage, skirmishes, looting, hijacking, robberies and
attacks on convoys in Samaria 22 Jan 1948 – 30 Apr 1948. Also includes some papers and
photographs relating to Felgate’s life and career outside of Palestine including his later work for
the R.S.P.C.A (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). 2 boxes. Handlist.
Photographic Collection.
FLETCHER, Paul Duncan. (1917-78). GB165-0106
“East of Aden. The Forties”: TS memoir by Mary Fletcher of Paul Fletcher’s service in the Eastern
Aden Protectorate, 1940-44, based on his official reports amd letters home, 1940-49. 74 sheets.
FLETCHER-COOKE, Sir John. (1911-89). GB165-0107
TS article “The Compulsive Cuppa” on his experience as a government officer in Palestine, 1946-
48; note on Sir Henry Gurney; correspondence with Roger Owen and Elizabeth Monroe on his
service in Palestine. 25 sheets.
FLINN, Walter Leonard. (1883-1969). GB165-0108
Correspondence 1903-1911; notebook relating to his business as an importer of Persian carpets;
memoir of his travels and work in Persia as well as his war service in the Ministry of Information;
short biographical account of Walter Leonard Flinn’s life. 1 box. Handlist.
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FORSTER, Dr. Elliot David. (b. 1905). GB165-0109
Photocopies of diary and some copies of official reports relating to his work as a doctor in St.
Luke’s Hospital, Hebron, 1936-40. 145 sheets.
FOSTER-TURNER, Frederick Wentworth. (1893-1989). GB165-0110
Papers on town planning and public works in Palestine, 1933-4, with some personal papers and a
small amount of material relating to Hong Kong, 1921-28. 1 box. Handlist.
FRANKFURTER, Felix. (1882-1965). GB165-0111
Microfilm of papers, including correspondence with Amir Feisal and recommendation on Jewish
settlements in the Ottoman Empire relating to his project, as adviser to the Zionist Delegation at
the Paris Peace Conference, of a form of mandate for Palestine. 1 reel.
FRASER-TYTLER, Sir William Kerr (1886-1963). GB165-0326
MS and TS letters to his mother from Kabul, 1923-41; additional correspondence with various
individuals such as Lord Willingdon and Lord Brabourne ; photographs including shots of
aeroplanes, parades, group portraits; articles and lectures by Kerr Fraser-Tytler and others; bound
TS Kabul Legation diary 1922-24; TS diary of the Kabul legation; other notes and writings. 4
boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
FRASER, Professor Thomas Howden. (1885-1975). GB165-0112
Letters from Major-General Mohammed Neguib, 1953-75; inscribed copy of Herbert Addison’s
Travelling with Artifex; certificates of Fraser’s awards and decorations; account of an excursion to
the Wadi Natrun, 26-27 November 1925; account of a trip to Petra by car, 1931. 2 folders.
Photographic collection.
FRASER, Major-General William Archibald Kenneth. (1886-1969). GB165-0113
Photocopy (some portions of text now very faint) and some typed transcripts of diaries kept by
Fraser while stationed in Persia with his regiment, the Central India Horse, 29 March 1912-
December 1919. 230 sheets.
FULLER, William Vickery. (b. 1907). GB165-0114
Photocopies and MS transcripts of diary entries 22 April-10 May 1948 with explanatory notes;
letter from Dr. Haikel, May 1948; letter from the Jaffa Emergency Committee, May 1948; letter
from the Secretary to the Chairman of the Truce Commission of the Security Council, Jerusalem;
report on certain government officers, Jaffa. 40 sheets.
FURNESS, Sir Robert Allason. (1883-1954). GB165-0115
Miscellaneous pamphlets and official papers relating to Anglo-Egyptian relations 1906-47; papers
and correspondence relating to Furness’s work as Professor of English Literature at Fuad
University, Cairo, 1938-40; papers and correspondence relating to censorship in Palestine 1931-36
and publicity censorship in Egypt 1940-45; accounts, minutes and staff details, Victoria College,
Cairo, 1942-44; correspondence and memoranda relating to Egyptian politics and internal affairs,
1919-37. 5 boxes. Handlist.
GARSTANG, Professor John. (1876-1956). GB165-0116
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Photocopies of papers,1925-26, relating to the Department of Antiquities in Palestine, to
Garstang’s resignation as Director of Antiquities and press-release on his role in establishing the
British Archaeological Institute in Turkey. 14 sheets.
GIBBONS, William. GB165-0388
Oral history interview of William Gibbons, who served in the Palestine Police 1946-1948
interviewed by Hilary Kalmbach on 14 Mar 2006. Sound file 121 minutes. Summary of interview
2 sheets and transcript 34 sheets. 3 items.
GIBBS, Brian Conaway. (1912-46). GB165-0117
Extracts of MS letters written from Palestine, February-August 1938, from Brian Gibbs to his
fiancée Joan; copy of arrangements for policing the Easter ceremonies of the Eastern and Western
rite churches at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Nebi Musa celebrations in Jerusalem,
1947. 2 folders. Handlist.
GIESLER, Rodney William Aldous (b.1931). GB165-0508
Papers, slides and films relating to Rodney Giesler’s life and work for the Kuwait Oil Company
Ltd Film Unit and his later travels in the Middle East consisting of an extract from an oral history
transcript ‘Memories of Kuwait 1958-61’ as well as a collection of 35mm colour slides mainly of
the Gulf including images of oil fields and installations, the visit of King Saud to Kuwait in 1961
as well as slides of tourist sites in Iran, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Also includes digital copies of
the documentary films ‘Close up on Kuwait’ and ‘Dubai’ which were directed by Rodney Giesler
and focus on the oil industry and the development of Kuwait and Dubai as well as some printed
materials including booklets giving a history of the Kuwait oil company. 2 boxes. Handlist.
GOLDIE, Col. Hugh Desmond Barré. (b. 1907). GB165-0119
Photocopied TS paper on the history of the Arab Legion, possibly by Glubb c.1944. 10 sheets.
GORDON, Maj.-Gen. Charles George. (1833-85). GB165-0120
Photocopied MS letters from the Sudan 1874-84 and one from Massawa in 1879 describing his
visit to the Emperor John of Ethiopia; TS copy of a biographical note on Gordon by F.E. Freese;
photocopies of 34 MS letters from Gordon to Mrs. Freese, 1874-80; MS letter to his brother from
Sudan 12 Dec.1878 referring to the Khedive’s ambitions in Ethiopia and Somalia; TS copy of a
postcard, 18 February 1884, from Gordon to Revd. Horace Waller; anonymous account of
Gordon’s death. 1 box.
GORDON, Rt. Revd. Eric, Bishop of Sodor and Man. (1905-92). GB165-0121
Articles from Bible Lands, 1927-28, relating to the Wycliffe Hall Theological College jubilee
pilgrimage to Palestine, 1927; Wycliffe Hall publications on the jubilee pilgrimage; two volumes
of The National Geographic Magazine containing articles relating to Palestine, 1926 & 1927. 1
box. Photographic collection.
GORST, Sir (John) Eldon. (1861-1911). GB165-0122
MS autobiographical notes beginning 1886 and ending at his death in 1911; speech on taking up
the post of Consul-General in Egypt, 2 November 1907; photocopies of autobiographical notes,
birth-1909; photocopied diaries 1890-95, 1897-1911; photocopied engagement books 1910-11;
photocopied press-cuttings of Egyptian race-meetings, 1909-11; 3 press-cutting volumes, 1890-
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1908. 19 vol.; 1 box. Handlist.
GOULD, Lorraine Macdonald. (1898-1935). GB165-0407
Photocopy of TS letters written by Lorraine Gould to her mother commenting on the causes and
progress of an uprising against King Amanullah Khan. The letters also describe fighting in Kabul
in December 1928 and an evacuation by plane to Peshawar. 18 sheets. Handlist.
GRAFFTEY-SMITH, Sir Laurence Barton. (1892-1989). GB165-0123
Papers from Karachi, 1947-49 and the Governor General’s Commission, Khartoum, 1953-56;
letters to Elizabeth Monroe of 11 April 1969 about libellous book, Four Gentlemen by Mme Vogt,
and 3 October 1969 about the McMahon correspondence. 1 box. Handlist.
GRAHAM, John David Carew (1923-2012). GB165-0327
OMAN ARCHIVE: Papers relating to Graham’s work as CSAF (Commander Sultan’s Armed
Forces) April 1970- September 1972. Mainly military papers, with some personal memoirs and
reflections and a significant quantity of printed material dating from c 1970 to 2000. The majority
of the military papers focus on the Dhofar war of 9 June 1965 – c 1975. Other events and subjects
referred to are: propaganda during the Dhofar war; military activities of the SAF in northern
Oman; the administration of the SAF, and the Salalah coup of 1970 during which the present
Sultan Qaboos bin Said deposed his father Said bin Taimur. The personal memoirs relate to time
spent by Graham in Oman and in other countries. The printed materials give background and
context to the military papers, and some of the more recent printed materials give and idea of
military activities and social and industrial developments in Oman today. Also includes two
photograph albums taken c.1970 to c.1972, capturing military life in the Sultanate of Oman,
including events such as the accession of Sultan Qaboos bin Said as well as some loose prints.10
boxes. Handlist.
GRANADA TELEVISION. GB165-0124
Transcripts of research interviews on British withdrawal from Cyprus, Egypt, Iran and Iraq,
conducted for the Granada Television series End of Empire, transmitted in 1985. 1 box.
GRAVES, Richard Massie. (1880-1960). GB165-0125
Draft of opening chapters of an autobiography covering his service at Constantinople, etc. 1903-
08; photocopy of draft outline of book on the Levant Consular Service. 137 sheets; 6 sheets.
Handlist.
GRAY, MACKENZIE & CO., LTD. GB165-0126
Photocopied documents on steam navigation on the Tigris and Euphrates, and on the Teheran-
Dizful road concession, 1892-1924. 52 sheets.
GREIG, Charles Alexis. (1880-1958) GB165-0314
Two letters, 31 March and 20 May 1934, to Miss May Rutherford written from Izmir where Greig
was HM Consul-General, with notes on family history; photographs. 35 sheets; 9 prints.
GREEN, Gerald. (b.1928) GB165-0404
Oral history interview of Gerald Green, who served in the Palestine Police 1946-1948, interviewed
by Eugene Rogan on 19 Oct 2006. Sound file 145 minutes. Summary of interview 1 sheet and
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transcript 27 sheets. 3 items. Handlist.
GREEN, Joseph Coy. (1887-1978) GB165-0317
Photocopied TS diary, 4 July 1952-15 September 1953, covering his period as US Ambassador to
Jordan. 3 boxes.
GRENFELL, Field Marshal Sir Francis Wallace, 1st Baron Grenfell. (1841-1925)
GB165-0319
MS diaries, 1874-79, 1882, 1884-1925; TS diary transcripts covering service in South Africa,
Egypt and Malta,1873-1902, and service in the Royal Household and retirement, 1903-19;
correspondence; scrapbook; photograph album; ephemera. 38 boxes; 2 vols. Handlist.
GURNEY, Betty. (d.1981). GB165-0127
Letters, 1937, 1944-49 and 1953-55, to friends recounting her daily life in Isfahan and later in
Cairo as the wife of the Revd. David Gurney, CMS missionary in Iran and Egypt. 96 sheets.
GURNEY, Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy. (1898-1951). GB165-0128
“Palestine postscript: a short record of the last days of the Mandate”; TS diary entries, 15 March-
14 May 1948; biographical note for the Dictionary of National Biography by Henry Moore with a
covering letter to General Sir Alan Cunningham, 1 July 1963. 3 folders.
HAIG, Margaret and HAIG, Helen. GB165-0129
TS accounts of journeys undertaken by Margaret and Helen Haig (daughters of Lt.-Col. T.W.
Haig) around Meshed in 1914 and 1916, and from Isfahan to Mohammerah in 1918. 92 sheets.
HAIG, Lt.-Col. Sir Thomas Wolseley. (1865-1938). GB165-0130
MS diary 1910-11, with account of a journey from Kerman to Bandar Abbas, 1912; reminiscences
of years as a Consul General in Meshed 1913-16, and Isfahan 1916-18. 295 sheets; 2 items.
HAINGE, James. GB165-0402
Oral history interview of James Hainge, who served in the Palestine Police 1945-1948 interviewed
by Eugene Rogan on 5 Jun 2006. Sound file 114 minutes. Summary of interview 1 sheet and
transcript 28 sheets. 3 items.
HAINING, Lt.-Gen. Sir Robert Hadden. (1882-1959). GB165-0131
Cyclostyled volume of despatches on the operations carried out by the British Forces in Palestine
and Transjordan during the period of command of Lt.-General R.H. Haining, 1 April 1938-30 July
1939; with a few press cuttings of the period and a letter from Malcolm Macdonald. 7 sheets; 1
item.
HALLWARD, Cecil Marsham GB165-0132
MS diaries, 5 volumes 1887-91 & 1897, covering service with the Levant Consular Service in
Constantinople and other parts of the Ottoman Empire. 1 box.
HAMILTON, John Almeric de Courcy. (1896-1973). GB165-0133
MS diary, with typed transcript, of events in Northwest Persia and Baku, 1918-19; TS lectures
including one on Neguib's assumption of power. 2 folders.
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HAMILTON-TEMPLE-BLACKWOOD, Frederick Temple, 1st Marquis of Dufferin and
Ava. (1826-1902). GB165-0134
Letter to Sheldon Amos, 4 July 1884, on the right of Egypt to representative government. 17
sheets.
HAMILTON, Robert Ernest (1925-2006). GB165-0392
Oral history interview of Robert Hamilton, who served in the Palestine Police 1946-1948,
interviewed by Sharif Ismail on 20 Apr 2006. Sound file 56 minutes. Summary of interview 2
sheets and transcript 13 sheets. Also includes a Police Boundaries map showing civil district, sub
district boundaries and Police Station Boundary, June 1947. 4 items. Handlist.
HANSON, Henry James. (1838-1935). GB165-0135
Print out from a microfilm of “A Record”: MS autobiography in 3 volumes by H.J. Hanson, an
Istanbul merchant, giving details of his ancestry, his father’s life in Constantinople and his own
memories, including some of the Crimean War, and illustrated with watercolours, family letters
and ephemera. 3 folders, with colour transparencies of the illustrations. Handlist.
HARRISON, Helena Austen. (c.1895-1986). GB165-0136
Journal of a visit to Palestine via Egypt, 1925, and album of photographs of Palestine. 2 vols.
Handlist.
HARTLEY, Sir Charles Augustus. (1825-1915). GB165-0137
Photocopies of six letters, 1872-75 & 1877-78, from General Charles Gordon to Sir Charles
Hartley and one letter from Hartley to Mrs. Griffiths, 27 February 1884, concerning Gordon's
letters. 17 sheets.
HAWLEY, Sir Donald Frederick (1921-2008). GB165-0338
OMAN ARCHIVE: Mainly of printed materials relating to souvenirs from National Day
celebrations in Oman: speeches from the sultan; and invitations to events, 1980-2000. 2 boxes.
Handlist.
HAY, Sir William Rupert. (1893-1962). GB165-0138
Diaries and accounts of tours 1911-56, with correspondence and articles relating to his service in
Mesopotamia, Waziristan and Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf, including the
transfer of the Residence from Bushire to Bahrain. 14 boxes. Handlist.
HAYCRAFT, Sir Thomas Wagstaffe. (d. 1936). GB165-0139
TS report by Sir Herbert Samuel to J.H. Thomas, Colonial Secretary, on the situation in Palestine,
Jan. 1924; two MS letters from Haycraft to Sir John Chancellor, 1928; Haycraft’s review of The
Mandate for Palestine by Y. Stoyanovsky in The Law Quarterly Review, January 1929. 33 sheets.
HAYTER, Sir William Goodenough. (1869-1924). GB165-0140
Photocopy of a letter of condolence, 6 August 1924, from Lord Allenby to Lady Hayter on the
death of her husband. 2 sheets.
HAYWARD, S. F. (b. 1908) GB165-0141
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For the Record: Arab A.M.O. pamphlet giving details of terrorist incidents carried out by Jewish
organisations in Palestine involving British victims, 1944-47. 14 sheets.
HAZELDEN, John Winston. (b. 1942) GB165-0499
Papers and artefacts mainly relating to the Royal Oman Police including the unpublished memoir
‘Shurta Recollections of Service with the Royal Oman Police in the 1970s’ by John Hazelden
which describes his ‘personal memories…with some historical background to provide context’
and covers his life and work in Sohar, Rostaq and Ibra. Also includes a bound ‘Pictorial
addendum’ to the memoir and four volumes relating to law in Oman consisting of the Police
Decree 1973, the 1974 Criminal Code, and commercial business laws of Oman 1974 and 1990.
Bound volume with a two part history of the Royal Oman Police Air Wing divided into ‘Brief
Outline of Early Operations’ and ‘Aircraft Types and Unit Development’ and bound volume of
copies of photographs entitled ‘Pictures of Sur Division Royal Oman Police 1975-1978’. Also
includes an unused bilingual (English and Arabic) Royal Oman Police Diary for 2001, printed
book ‘The Sultan’s Armed Forces Elementary Omani Colloquial Arabic for English Speakers’,
printed booklet ‘Omani Arabic (some spoken terms and phrases)’, a 1975 National Day
commemorative medallion in a presentation box as well as text and photographs relating to the
medallion, 12 Oman First Day Cover postcards and postage Stamps 1984-1985, a Muscat Police
notebook 1970-1973, Oman police badge, passports relating to Oman and Ras al Khaimah and a
copy of a watercolour of a boat. 4 boxes. Handlist.
HELY HUTCHINSON, Sir John, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore. (1757-1832).
GB165-0142
Photocopied report to the Secretary of State, the Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas, on the campaign in
Egypt, 3 April 1801. 8 sheets.
HENNESSEY, Robert Samuel Fleming. (1905-89). GB165-0143
TS account of a visit to Riyadh via Baghdad and Bahrain with the Anglo-American (Palestine)
Committee, 16-21 March 1946. 9 sheets.
HEPWORTH, Charles. (b.1943). GB165-0410
OMAN ARCHIVE: Papers and photographs relating to Charles Hepworth’s service in the Sultan’s
Armed Forces during 1970-1971 including a memoir ‘A Walk on God’s Carpet Adventures in
Oman’; training materials including ‘Field Notes on Saudi Arabia 1935’; papers relating to
missions, speeches by the Sultan, propaganda leaflets and SAF bulletins. Also includes some maps
of Southern Arabia, newspaper clippings and a small amount of correspondence about walking
and mapping in Oman, as well as digital copies of 35mm slides including Morocco, Oman, the
Hadhramaut (Aden) and a report of a Sandhurst expedition to the Hadramaut 1962-1963 with
photographs. 6 boxes. Handlist.
HERBERT, Hon. Mervyn Robert Howard Molyneux . (1882-1929). GB165-0144
Diaries, 2 volumes 1912-17 & 1917-23, covering service in Madrid and Cairo; letter of 20 Nov.
1925 from Lord Lloyd on early impressions as Ambassador to Cairo; undated letter from Robin
Furness, also from Cairo. 1 box. Handlist
HIGGINS, John. GB165-0145
Typed extracts from letters to his wife Freda written during a visit to Palestine on behalf of
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Cook’s, February-March 1948. 14 sheets.
HODGKIN, Thomas Lionel. (1910-82). GB165-0146
Letters from George Antonius to Thomas Hodgkin discussing the situation in Palestine, 1936; text
of Hodgkin’s 1981 Antonius Lecture given at St. Antony's. 7 sheets; 50 sheets.
HODGKIN, Edward Christian. (1913-2006). GB165-0362
Photocopy of an obituary of Katy Antonius and a photocopy of a TS account of Katy Antonius’
life by EC Hodgkin, Dec 1999. 15 sheets.
HOGARTH, David George. (1862-1927). GB165-0147
Photocopies of notes and letters, 1897-1921, to his mother, wife and son, mentioning personalities
such as Gertrude Bell and T.E. Lawrence; photocopy of a letter from T.E. Lawrence to W.D.
Hogarth, 11 November 1928; file of biographical notes. 1 box. Handlist.
HOLDEN, Andrew. (d.1973). GB165-0148
Papers dating from his period with the Egyptian Government, 1907-52, including Land Tax
assessment, the attempted purchase of land at Abukir, Egyptian nationalism, agricultural credit
and irrigation. 1 box. Photographic collection.
HOLMES, Richard J. (1928-77). GB165-0149
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, case notes, etc. relating to Aden, 1942-67; papers of the
Anglo-Yemeni conference, 1950; East African Currency Board correspondence, 1967-68;
correspondence and memoranda on constitutional development in the UAE, 1968-72; “Britain and
South Arabia”: MS of a constitutional history of South Arabia during the pre-independence period
(284 pp.). 5 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
HOLT, Sir Vyvyan. (1896-1960). GB165-0150
Drafts of lectures on Iraq under the British Mandate (written post-1942) and Britain’s policy in the
Middle East, c.1958. 23 sheets. Photographic collection.
HOPE-GILL, Cecil Gervas. (1894-1984). GB165-0151
TS memoirs “From the womb to the tomb”; letters, reports, telegrams, and press-cuttings relating
to the Ethiopian crisis of May 1936. 2 boxes. Handlist.
HORNSBY, Sir Bertram. (d.1943). GB165-0152
Papers on his war service in Egypt, 1915-19; anonymous [Egyptian] criticism of Sir W. Brunyate's
proposals for constitutional reform, prepared in 1918; papers on the 1919 riots; Anglo-Egyptian
relations under Allenby and Lord Lloyd; economic and financial subjects, 1922-23; memo on the
annexation of the Sudan, 1924; anonymous [British] criticism of proposals made by the British
Government for abortive treaty negotiations of 1929-30; proposed agricultural mortgage scheme
for Palestine, 1933; papers on the status of the National Bank of Egypt and its relations with the
Egyptian Government, 1939. 1 box.
HOURANI, Cecil Amin. GB165-0153
Translation of article on the Arab nation and relations with Israel originally published in An-
Nahar supplement of 20 August 1967 with cuts by the Lebanese censor marked in red; “Road to
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Geneva?” U.S. statements on the Middle East, vols. I-IV, Mar. 1977-May 1978. 1 box.
HUNT, John. (b.1931). GB165-0456
Booklet ‘In My View Suez The Hidden Truths. A documentary by John Hunt’ written in 2007 and
consisting of an account the campaign to secure a medal for the veterans of the Suez Campaign
1951-1954, as well as including John Hunt’s memoirs of his service in Suez, extracts from
newspaper articles, cartoons and photographs from the Suez Campaign; photocopies of 4
newspaper articles about the campaign for medals and the booklet ‘In My View Suez The Hidden
Truths’ 1 file (8 items). Handlist.
HUTSON, Major G. GB165-0154
TS report “Israel and her neighbours”, May 1954. 19 sheets.
ILIFF, Sir William Angus Boyd. (1898-1972). GB165-0155
Letter from Gertrude Bell to M. Sevian, 1923, about the situation in Iraq; information for
candidates applying to the Egyptian and Sudanese civil service; agreement between the United
Arab Republic, Cie Financière de Suez and International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development on compensation following the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Co., 1958. 7
sheets; 1 item.
INGRAMS, William Harold. (1897-1973). GB165-0156
G. Warneford Memoranda on the Yaffai-as-Sufal and the territory of the Amir of Dthala, Simla,
1904; M.C. Lake “Report on visit to Upper and Lower Yafa, 1926”; convention between the
United Kingdom and Turkey respecting the boundaries of Aden and of Ottoman territory in
Southern Arabia, signed London, 9 March 1914; report of the Cairo Conference, 1921;
miscellaneous papers on Mukalla and Hadhramaut, 1930s-60s; Aden Intelligence Summaries,
1935-36; Hadhramaut Intelligence Summaries, 1-144, 1937-40; Eastern Aden Protectorate
Intelligence Summaries, 1941-44; notes, press cuttings, papers, telegrams, etc. on Aden, 1940s-
60s; J.G.C. Allen: report on a visit to Algeria, and another on Morocco, 1948(?); an economic
survey of the South Arabian Federation (Western Aden Protectorate), 1962; article on tribal
structure and allegiance in the Yemen, written 1965 for the Foreign Office; papers relating to the
Aden Protectorate and Yemen; reports 1933-41; correspondence, memos and telegrams relating to
administrative and political problems, Aden 1941-64; record of the U.N. Special Committee on
granting independence to Aden, 1964; collection of essays and pamphlets; presscuttings. 14
boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
IRAQ. GB165-0157
Official printed notice about the protection of caravans on the Kadhimain-Mushahedeh-Sumaicha-
Belad road, 28 August 1917. 1 sheet.
JÄCKLI, Rudolf. (1924-2000). GB165-0334
OMAN ARCHIVE: Parts 1 – 4 of an unpublished draft report of a project undertaken by UNICEF
in Oman, December 1973. 1 box. Handlist
JAMALI, Mohammed Fadhel. (1903-97). GB165-0158
Photocopied TS of “Arab Struggle, 1943-1958”: a personal account of Iraqi relations with other
Arab states. 1 box. Handlist.
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JARDINE, Lionel Westropp. (1895-1980). GB165-0159
Euphrates Expedition:Copy of Instructions to Col. Chesney... London, 1837; map captured from
the Turkish army at Ramadi, 1918; Review of Civil Administration of Mesopotamia, London, 1920
(Cmd. 1061); miscellaneous ephemera on Iraq during World War I; presscuttings from The
Baghdad Times and The Basrah Times, 1917-18. 1 box. Photographic collection.
JENNINGS-BRAMLY, Wilfred Edgar (1871-1960). GB165-0160
Letter to Elizabeth Monroe, 28 June 1953, with map to illustrate his belief that the Egyptian
frontier of 1841 ran from Suez to Rafah, and that much territory in Sinai had been acquired for
Egypt by Britain; letters, 1901-53, to Jennings-Bramly and members of his family from friends
and relations, mostly dealing with social matters, though with some mention of the war in the
Western Desert; exploration notes and accounts of expeditions in Egypt and Sudan. 2 boxes.
Handlist.
JERUSALEM AND THE EAST MISSION. GB165-0161
Records, 1841-1970s, including material on Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Iran, Gulf, Egypt,
Sudan, Cyprus and N. Africa; with correspondence on the political situation in Palestine, 1916-67;
presscutting volumes. 256 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
JOHNS, Cedric Norman. (1904-92). GB165-0162
Letters from Nagib G. Nassar, Jerusalem, about the Jaffa riots 1933, the work of the Department
of Antiquities,1935 and about finding work outside Jordan,1952; copy of “Background notes:
military and economic elements in the Israeli beach-head”, 1970; four maps showing the proposed
boundaries for the partition of Palestine, 1938; press-cuttings on Palestine, 1923-47. 1 box.
JONES, Frank William. (b.1928) GB165-0389
Oral history interview of Frank Jones, who served in the Palestine Police 1946-1948, interviewed
by Nick Kardahji on 16 Mar 2006. Sound file 79 minutes. Summary of interview 2 sheets and
transcript 15 sheets. 3 items. Handlist.
JORDAN, BRITISH AMBASSADOR’S ANNUAL REPORTS GB165-0345
Photocopies of the British Ambassador’s Annual Report for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
covering 1951-1970 (not including the reports for 1960 and1968). 1 box
JORDAN COLLECTION. GB165-0163
Photocopies of papers relating to the history of Palestine and Jordan 1919-30, including
administrative documents from the Ajlun and Salt districts, 1919-26; papers relating to the
Palestinian Nationalist Rising, 1936-9; papers relating to the Arab Legion. 1 folder.
KARADOGAN, Ismet Bey. (b. c.1880). GB165-0164
MS letter of 17 September 1971 to Elizabeth Monroe about his association with Colonel S.F.
Newcombe in 1917 and 1918 and enclosing a MS copy of letter from T.E. Lawrence to
Newcombe, 17 Jan. 1917. 5 sheets.
KEATING, Rex (1910-2005) GB165-0361
Papers mainly relating to Rex Keating’s work as Assistant Director in the Palestine Broadcasting
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Service (Radio) between 1945-1948 including a small number of scripts for broadcasts and
administrative papers on staff and equipment. There is also a small amount of material relating to
the Palestine Civil Service (First Division) Association and the Jerusalem Sport’s Club, as well as
reference material probably used in the course of business consisting of Palestine Telephone
Directory for Jerusalem and Southern Palestine, 1944 and The Palestine Police Calendar of
Events, 1946. 2 boxes. Handlist
KEDEM, Menachem. GB165-0165
Photocopy of TS notes made by Sir Lewis Namier on a meeting held 6 Ocober 1939 between
himself, Chaim Weizmann, Moshe Shertok and H.St.J.B.Philby to discuss Philby’s scheme for
settling the Arab-Jewish problem. 2 sheets.
KEDOURIE, Elie. (1926-92). GB165-0166
Microfilm copies of Foreign Office documents, and a selection of papers of Gertrude Bell, George
Antonius and others. 16 reels. Handlist.
KEMP, P. GB165-0168
Photocopies of material on the revenues of the Pasha of Mosul, 1845, with some maps of the
Mosul area; photocopies of official reports on the political situation in Syria and the Lebanon,
1924-43, including material on the Druze rebellion. (Originals in PRO). 1 box.
KENT, Derek Frederick John. (b.1925). GB165-0453
TS of an unpublished book 'A Ship for an Ikon' completed by Derek Kent in 1993 giving an
account of an investigation in Lebanon and Palestine of a White Russian Count's involvement in
aiding illegal Jewish immigration from Europe to Palestine in 1945-1946; TS 'Death in a
Eucalyptus Grove - 30 July 1947' giving an account of the kidnapping and hanging of Sergeants
Paice and Martin. Also includes a photocopy of the letter informing Derek Kent that he had been
called up for military service in 1943, a photocopy of a photograph showing Derek Kent with the
truck he drove from Beirut in the operation described in ‘A Ship for an Ikon’, a photocopy of a
Christmas dinner menu 1946 and a photocopy of a letter informing Derek Kent that he had been
awarded the GSM & Clasp Palestine. 1 file (6 items). Handlist.
KEOWN-BOYD, Sir Alexander William. (1884-1954). GB165-0167
Photocopied papers on his service in the Sudan and Egypt, 1914, 1919-22; memo on Egypt’s
“free” elections, 1930; letters April 1951 and July 1953 on Egyptian politics; photocopied TS copy
of an unfinished letter from K-B to his parents on conditions in Jerusalem and observations on
Allenby and Storrs; photocopied TS memoir by Henry Keown-Boyd of his father’s orderly
Ahmed. 3 folders.
KERMACK, Stuart Grace. (1888-1981). GB165-0169
TS photocopy of memoirs of work in the Judicial Service, Palestine, 1920-30. 28 sheets.
KERR, William. (1930-2012). GB165-0572
Papers, photographs and artefacts relating to William Kerr’s service in the Sultan’s Armed Forces
(Muscat Regiment) Oman, including administrative papers, maps, printed publications, 2 shield
plaques and a photo album/scrapbook. The photograph album/scrapbook covers his period of
service in 1973 and a visit to Oman arranged for Sultan’s Armed Forces Association members in
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1984, and includes photographs of Sultan Qaboos and the British and Jordanian Ambassadors. A
further series of photographs documents Sultan Qaboos’ visit to Simba in 1972. 2 boxes. Handlist.
KESSLER, Leopold (1864-1944) and GOLDSMID, Col. Albert Edward Williamson. (1846-
1904). GB165-0170
Photocopy of Kessler’s copy of the Log book of the Commission appointed to report on the
practicability of establishing Jewish settlements on the Sinai peninsular, 11 February-25 March
1903; biographical article on Leoplold Kessler from The Jewish Chronicle, 31 January 1964. 140
sheets; 3 prints.
KINCH, Edward Alec. (b. 1896). GB165-0171
Photocopy of MS autobiographical notes covering his early life in England and career in Iraq,
1896-1959; photocopies of correspondence as Political Adviser, Mosul, with Sir Kinahan
Cornwallis and others, 1941-44. 2 folders.
KIRBY, Sir Arthur Frank. (1899-1983). GB165-0172
Papers on railway administration in Palestine, 1945-48; Hijaz railway; Paiforce transport
problems; termination of the Palestine Mandate. 1 box.
KIRBY, Trevor Roland. (b.1923). GB165-0585
Papers relating to Trevor Kirby’s service in the Palestine Police, consisting of a scrapbook with
newspaper cuttings from his time in Palestine 1944-1948; an Arabic Language Textbook produced
by the Palestine Police Force; four travel guidebooks covering Jerusalem, Syria, Lebanon,
Transjordania; a printed Palestine Police Old Comrades’ Association leaflet covering the history
of the Palestine Police Force; a printed speech made by H.M. George VI thanking the Palestine
Police; remembrance items including a roll of honour and latter printed editions, correspondence
regarding the roll of honour and a remembrance cross; Palestine Police Old Comrades’
Association Newsletters from 1950-2012, produced Quarterly (tri-annually from 2007), giving
information on association news, regional meetings, annual dinners, obituaries, and purchasable
association clothing. 7 boxes. Handlist.
KITCHENER, Field Marshal Sir Horatio Herbert, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum.
(1850-1916). GB165-0173
Three letters from Kitchener to Major P.G. Elgood, May, June and October 1901, about the
purchase and maintenance of an island at Aswan, with related documents, 1902. 10 sheets.
KLINGEMAN, Clara, née Struve. (b. 1907). GB165-0174
“Palestine of Yesteryears,” an account of the establishment of Christoff Hoffman’s Temple
Society in Palestine, 1861, and the Struve family’s life in Haifa as members of a Temple Colony
there, 1872-1936. Photocopied illustrated typescript, 1983. 286 sheets.
KNAPP, Wilfrid Francis. (1924-2011). GB165-0554
Draft manuscript of an unpublished book ‘International Politics in the Middle East’ by Wilfrid
Knapp consisting of 7 chapters covering events from the 1950s to 1991 including Iran
(Mossadegh), Egypt (Suez Crisis), the oil revolution, religious fundamentalism, the 1973 October
War, Camp David, Afghanistan, the war in Lebanon and Israeli and Syrian relations and the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process up until 1991 but with a focus on the 1980s. 1 file. Handlist.
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KUHL, Carl Heinrich Leopold. (b. 1844). GB165-0175
Grants of honours received from European sovereigns and Ottoman Sultan, with associated
correspondence, 1872-1911; 3 Danish passports for himself, his wife and son. 116 sheets.
LAMOND, Alex. GB165-0400
Papers and photographs mainly relating to Alex Lamond’s service in Oman between 1970-1972
including administrative papers on training of Desert Regiment soldiers and planning of various
Desert Regiment operations. There is also some material relating to the visit of Major General M
Janes MBE, Director Royal Artillery to the Sultan’s Armed Forces (SAF) and the Oman Artillery,
as well as a script of the BBC broadcast ‘Guerillas in the Persian Gulf’, including comments, and
newspaper and magazine articles. 3 boxes. Handlist.
LAMPSON, Sir Miles Wedderburn, 1st Baron Killearn. (1880-1964). GB165-0176
MS and TS diaries, 1926-51, in 25 volumes covering his service in China, Egypt and the Sudan,
and South-East Asia. 7 boxes. Handlist.
LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward. (1888-1935). GB165-0177
Photocopied letter to Col. S.F. Newcombe,17 January 1917; letter to King Hussein of the Hijaz,
25 June 1918, on the state of operations of the Arab Revolt; copy of a letter to J.W.A. Young
February 1921 commenting on an article describing a visit to Jidda; letter from Rennell Rodd to
Liddell Hart, 5 April 1954, about Lawrence’s being offered the Secretaryship of the Bank of
England; press-cuttings about The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia with a letter from A.W.
Lawrence, 1969; TS account of the Lawrence memorial in St. Martin’s Church, Wareham; TS list
of Lawrence letters at Harvard University. 36 sheets.
LAYARD, Sir Austen Henry. (1817-94). GB165-0178
Photocopies of 6 letters to Edward Mitford, 1841-50, on his travels in Persia, Iraq and Turkey. 23
sheets.
LEACHMAN, Col. Gerard Evelyn. (1880-1920). GB165-0179
Diaries: 1900-02 (South African War); 1904 (Syria and Iraq); undated (Iraq); 1907 (overland
journey from India to England); press-cuttings of his death, 1920. 1 box.
LEADBEATER, Roy. GB165-0412
Oral history interview of Roy Leadbeater, who served in the Palestine Police, interviewed by
Eugene Rogan on 22 May 2007. Sound file 163 minutes. Transcript 37 sheets. 2 items.
LEBANON. GB165-0180
Photocopy of an Arabic map of Lebanon divided into 21 pieces according to province. 21 items.
LE RAY, Hugh Granville. (b.1895). GB165-0181
Annual reports of the Director of Surveys, Palestine, 1920-39; some material on land laws, land
tax, cadastral surveys, and the distribution of land in Palestine during the Mandate period; report
on “Operation Elephant”, 1947. 1 box.
LIENHARDT, Peter Arnold. (1928-1986). GB165-0415
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Printed booklet ‘A Note on the Alawites’ (produced as British intelligence information by the
Middle East Intelligence Centre in Feb 1943) giving an account of the Alawites’ history, religious
and cultural divisions, economic life, politics and geographical distribution. Photocopy of an
article by Ahmed Al-Shahi ‘Peter Lienhardt 1928-1986: Biographical Notes and Bibliography’
published in the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Vol 27 no 2 in 1996. 2 items.
Handlist.
LLOYD, Sir George Ambrose, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran. (1879-1941).
GB165-0182
Letters written from Egypt to his sister Mrs. Gwen Carleton, 1900-01, 1905-07 & 1910; two
personal letters to Maj. Gen. F.S. Piggott, May 1940. 2 sheets; 87 sheets.
LLOYD PHILLIPS, Ivan. (1910-1984). GB165-0183
Report by R.E.H. Crosbie on conditions in the Southern District of Palestine, September 1938;
two series of Ordnance Survey maps compiled 1925-29 by the Historical Section (Military
branch), showing the dispositions of British/Ottoman troops in Egypt and Palestine during the 1st
World War. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic collection.
LODER, John de Vere, 2nd Baron Wakehurst. (1895-1970). GB165-0184
Letter-book/diary of the Gallipoli and Palestine campaigns, 1915-18, with photographs, postcards
and ephemera pasted in; copy of Bartholomew’s War Map of Europe and the Mediterranean;
Ottoman Turkish map of coastline dated 24 November 1915. 1 box.
LOMAS, Ernest Gabriel. (1878-1947). GB165-0586
Letter from Ernest Lomas to Latimer, 30 May 1930, explaining that he had left Cairo in Nov
[1929] and had taken over as Consul General in Tunis in Jan [1930] and that he had sent Latimer’s
letter back to the Consul General at Cairo to deal with. Lomas also explains that the proper
procedure ‘if you are not sure of the identity of a Consular officer’ was to ‘always address it to his
title, not name’ otherwise the letter would be treated as a private letter and forwarded to the named
person, even if they had moved post. 1 item. Handlist.
LONGRIGG, Brig. Stephen Hemsley. (1893-1979). GB165-0185
Report on Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, Cyrenaica, 14 Oct. 1941-31 Jan. 1942 with
other reports on Cyrenaica, 1941-42; notes on O.E.T.A. in general. 122 sheets.
LORAINE, Sir Percy Lyham. (1880-1961). GB165-0186
Press-cuttings from British and local newspapers, including many cartoons, covering his service as
High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, 1929-33, and as Ambassador in Turkey, 1933-39.
11 vols. Photographic collection. Handlist.
LOTBINIÈRE, Helen Ruth Mildred Joly de. (1912-1953). GB165-0411
Volume entitled ‘Scrap Book Eddie and Helen de Lotbinière’ containing TS extracts from letters,
diary entries and latter accounts by Helen de Lotbinière describing the struggle to join her husband
in Aden and her life and work in Aden from Oct 1939-Mar 1941. Also includes photographs,
letters, pressclippings, Christmas dinner menu for 1940, identity card and special permit to enter
vulnerable areas. 1 vol. Handlist.
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LOWE, Eric. (b. 1928). GB165-0428
Palestine Scrapbook issues 1-15, 1998-2003, consisting of a ‘journal for those who served in the
RAOC [Royal Army Ordnance Corps] in Palestine’ containing a variety of articles remembering
life and service in Palestine as well as extracts from letters of Palestine Scrapbook subscribers,
news of events for veterans’ and information to help veterans to get in touch with each other.
DVD video of an interview of Eric Lowe in June 2005 covering his service in Palestine, the
interviewer was Philip Knightly and the presenter Lady Michelé Renouf. 1 file. Handlist.
LOXTON, John Willoughby. (b.1913). GB165-0187
“The Survey of Palestine 1937-38: A Personal Memoir”: photocopied TS covering his recruitment
to the Colonial Service and description of his work and the work of the Survey. 39 sheets.
LUCAS, Ivor. (b.1927). GB165-0561
TS article ‘Reflections on a diplomatic career in the Arab and Muslim worlds 1951-84’ by Ivor
Lucas covering his work in the Foreign Service relating to the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Libya,
Aden and Syria and giving his reflections on the changing face of Islam. 1 file. Handlist.
LUKE, Sir Harry Charles. (1884-1969). GB165-0188
MS diaries 1903-59, including World War I service in Cyprus and Palestine; papers on the
Wailing Wall dispute of 1929; League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission, 17th session
- collected observations re. Palestine, 9 May 1930; notes on a memo of the Jewish Agency; order
of service of Memorial Service, with address given by Stewart Perowne, 1969. 6 boxes. Handlist.
LUNT. Maj. Gen. James Doiran. (b. 1917). GB165-0189
Photocopied TS of Address given at the service of thanksgiving for the life of Lt.-Gen. Sir John
Bagot Glubb held in Westminster Abbey, 17 April 1986. 4 sheets.
LYON, Wallace Adelbert. (1892-1977) GB165-0190
Photocopied offprint of “Southern Kurdistan in the annals of Ashurnasirpal and today” by
Ephraim A. Speiser, reprinted from The Annual of the American. Schools of Oriental Research
vol. VIII, 1928. 19 sheets. Photographic collection.
LYON, Wallace Adelbert (1892-1977) and FIELDHOUSE, David GB165-0343
Photocopied TS of the Memoir of Lieutenant Colonel W.A. Lyon; an edited version of this
memoir by David Fieldhouse entitled ‘Kurds, Arabs & Britons, The Memoir of Wallace Lyon in
Iraq 1918-44 and one letter from Mary Bliss to Professor Fieldhouse commenting on the book. 1
box.
MACAN, George. (1803-1866) GB165-0191
MS letter to Major Henry Spencer written from Cairo 15 February 1844, describing his travels in
Egypt and the Levant; incomplete MS letter dated 1829; photocopy of edited transcript by Prof.
Martin Harrison and TS copy. 13 sheets.
McARTHUR, Arthur (b.1913) GB165-0380
Photographs of the Palestine Police Rugby Team, official group photographs of Palestine
Policemen, a few photographs of armoured cars, one photograph of a derailed train and a wooden
Palestine Police Shield, 1942-1948. 1 item and 23 photographs. Handlist. Photographic Collection
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McCRINDELL, Andrew L. GB165-0192
“Reflections on the Middle East - thirty years on”; photocopied article in The Review, 4 November
1977 on insurance in Palestine during the Mandate and his career as an insurance officer in Haifa,
1946-52. 3 sheets.
MacGILLIVRAY, Sir Donald Charles. (1906-1966). GB165-0193
Papers relating to Sir Donald MacGillivray’s work in Palestine, including a minute on the Arab
revolt c1938; appointment diaries 1938-1945 and passes and permits during his time in Palestine.
There are letters written to and from MacGillivray, a collection of thanksgiving, memorial and
parade programmes 1944-1948, land transfer regulations, staff lists and propaganda leaflets. Also
included are reports and conversations on MacGillivray’s work for the UN as Liaison Officer for
the Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) relating to the United Kingdom’s withdrawal and
the future of Palestine. 2 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
MacGUFFIE, Lt.-Col. the Revd. Alexander H. GB165-0194
Papers relating to his service as Chaplain of the Church of England Diocesan Mission in Aden; his
ordination training by correspondence course through Wolsey Hall, Oxford, 1940-44; retirement
curacy in Cumberland, 1954; various sermons and notes. 1 box.
McKEOWN, J.H. GB165-0339
OMAN ARCHIVE: Dissertation: Britain and Oman: The Dhofar War and its Significance.
A dissertation submitted by Mckeown for the degree of Master of Philosophy in the University of
Cambridge, July 1981. 1 box. Handlist.
McMAHON PROMISE. GB165-0195
Photocopies of correspondence between Sir Henry McMahon and Sir Edward Gray with draft
telegram as sanctioned by Kitchener and the India Office, October 1915, and Clayton’s comment,
December 1915; correspondence on the subject between Elizabeth Monroe, Elie Kedourie and
B.C. Busch. 1 folder.
MacMICHAEL, Sir Harold Alfred. (1882-1969). GB165-0196
Correspondence with prominent officials including Lord Lloyd, Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, Sir
Reginald Wingate and Ormsby Gore, 1922-1941; Correspondence relating to Palestine, Syria and
Sudan including letters from Chaim Weizmann, Judah Magnes, Sir H. Maitland Wilson, Sir
Huddleston and Edgar Bonham Carter; Papers relating to MacMichael’s Palestine
Commissionership and also the Peel Commission recommendations of 1938; correspondence and
papers relating to Palestine charities; texts of speeches and broadcasts by MacMichael 1938-1944;
Anglo-Arab Association correspondence and papers 1945-1961; four volumes of press-cuttings,
1934-1967. 5 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
McNEIL, Brig. Gen. Angus John. (1874-1950). GB165-0197
Papers relating to service in Palestine as Commandant of the British Gendarmerie, 1922-26; as
manager of the Government Stud Farm, Acre, and Stock Breeding Officer for Palestine, 1927-31;
as a resident in an Arab village north of Acre, 1932-49. 1 box. Handlist.
MACRO, Squadron Leader Eric L. GB165-0198
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“Yemen - a brief survey”: TS by Macro giving historical background, c.1948. 10 sheets.
MAGAN, Brig. W.M.T. and ROGER, Alan. (1909-97). GB165-0199
Description and photograph of the hand-over to the British of four German officers, apprehended
by members of the Qashgai tribe, Iran, Spring 1944. 15 sheets; 1 print.
MANCE, Brig.-Gen. Sir H. Osborne. (1875-1966). GB165-0200
Papers on the operations of the Ottoman Bank throughout the Middle East, including dealings
over railways, trade agreements, oil, mines and other operations, 1911-60. 8 boxes. Handlist.
MAYERS, Norman. (1895-1986). GB165-0201
Diaries, correspondence, and press-cuttings covering Mayers’ career in the consular service in
Egypt, Turkey and Iran, 1927-79; correspondence and papers relating to Norman Mayers’ work in
the consular service in the Lebanon and Egypt, 1920s-30s; papers on service in Latin America. 3
boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
MEINERTZHAGEN, Col. Richard. (1878-1967). GB165-0202
Photocopy of a letter, 10 January 1964, to - Landman, published in Ha’aretz 3 November 1967,
about the precise geographical area envisaged by Balfour and Lloyd George as the Jewish National
Home; photocopy of a letter, 25 March 1919, to Lloyd George on the growth of Jewish and Arab
nationalism, and the possibility of Britain annexing Turkish Sinai. 3 sheets.
MELLOR, Aubrey Rollo Ibbetson. (1892-1977). GB165-0409
Memoir written by Aubrey Mellor giving an account of his service in the Egyptian Civil Service
from 1919-1930 in the Police CID, as Director of Registry and Archives and also work in the
Ministry of Finance. Articles on Egyptian history, a letter of appreciation of Mellor’s work in
Egypt and an obituary for Sir Frank Watson and Aubrey Mellor. 1 box. Handlist.
MIDDLE EAST DEVELOPMENT DIVISION. GB165-0203
Project papers and reports, 1939-1980s, dealing with agriculture, co-operatives, education,
finance, fisheries, forestry, health provision, industry, mineral resources, public administration,
transport, water resources, and other development projects, mainly in Jordan (including the West
Bank territory), but also covering Aden, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Oman, Israel and Palestine;
correspondence files; some papers on the South-East Asia Development Division and the
Overseas Development Institute. 39 boxes. Handlist.
MIDDLE EAST SUPPLY CENTRE. GB165-0204
Memoranda on land tenure in Palestine, 1942-44; papers on land tenure in various countries of the
Middle East, 1943-44; documents on a transport conference in Cairo, 1943; memo on the Council
of Agriculture, 1945; articles on railways in Palestine and Persia. 1 box.
MILLS, Eric. (1892-1961). GB165-0205
Five MS letters to Elizabeth Monroe, May-August 1961, concerning Palestine, Zionism and the
Negev. 9 sheets.
MONCKTON, Major Reginald Francis Percy. (1896-1975). GB165-0206
Papers and letters home from his period of service in Palestine and Transjordan,1917-25,
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including material on the period before Amir Abdullah’s installation; reminiscences of
Transjordan; notes on the Somerset papers; correspondence with the Israel State Archives, Prof.
Uriel Dann and others; Staff List, Palestine Government, 1930; material on excavations at
Solomon's Quarries, Jerusalem, 1924-69; diary of a visit to Israel, November-December 1967. 1
box. Photographic collection.
MONROE, Elizabeth. (1905-86). GB165-0207
Translation of documents from Tsarist archives on the break-up of the Ottoman Empire,1914-15;
a note on the Arab Bureau, 1916-19; letters from C.J. Edmonds on recollections of Mosul
Commission, Kurds and Anglo-Iraq treaty of 1926; letters from Freya Stark, 4 November 1943-18
June 1944, on her mission to America; notes on British policy in Palestine 1945-48 with special
reference to Ernest Bevin; letters on Jordan Waters situation, 1951-55; Nasser's propaganda in the
Persian Gulf, 1955-57; effects of the Suez crisis on Iraqi politics; letters on developments in 1957
in Iraq and Iran; memo “Saudi Arabia 1970-71”; map of the Hijaz railway; material on Egypt’s
campaign to spread its influence by dispatch of Egyptian teachers abroad; TS copies of 2 letters
from Elizabeth Monroe about her travels in Morocco and Algeria in 1935. 1 box. Photographic
collection.
MORGAN, Miss Dorothy Blanche. (b. 1906). GB165-0208
Material relating to Palestine during and after the Mandate, covering her career as a history teacher
at the English High School, Haifa, including letters from S. P. Emery, reports from the office of
the Bishop in Jerusalem on the situation during the period May 1948-March 1950, copies of Bible
Lands and Lines of Communication, and a report by Winifred A. Coate on the Abdelliyeh Village
Project, Jordan, 1977. Handlist. 2 boxes. Photographic collection.
MORRIS, Philip GB165-0379
Palestine Police training materials, 1945-1946, giving information on the history and organisation
of the Palestine Police, Jewish Military Organisations, Jewish and Arab military forces in
Palestine, the Arab Legion, instructions with regard to curfew passes for troops manning road
blocks and Guidance in the use of search lights. Also includes two TS accounts probably by the
same unknown author entitled ‘La Regence’ giving an account of the bombing of the King David
Hotel in 1946 and ‘Jerusalem’ giving an account of a short stay in Jerusalem commenting on
accommodation and terrorism c1946. Handlist. 1 file.
MORRIS, Sir Willie. (1919-82). GB165-0209
Text of Arab-Israeli Truce Agreement, 11 June 1948 signed by Count Bernadotte; printed edition
of a speech by Fuad Serag el Din when about to revive the Wafd Party in 1977. 3 sheets; 1 item.
MORRISON, Michael Andrews. (b. circa 1854) GB165-0210
MS and TS copy of Ethel Morrison’s account of her father’s travels as a colporteur for the British
and Foreign Bible Society in Russia, Daghestan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkestan, Romania,
Serbia and Germany, 1877-1917; with related articles and press-cuttings by, or about, Morrison. 1
box.
MORTON, Desmond (1927-2005) GB165-0405
Papers and photographs relating to Desmond Morton’s service as a British Constable in the
Palestine Police between 1946-1948 including papers relating to his recruitment, training and
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police work such as his role as liaison with Spinney’s for police food rations. Also includes a
small amount of material relating to Morton’s social life, including the ‘The Candid Carmelite
Clarion’ mess-hall newssheet, as well as Jewish and Arab propaganda and newspaper clippings
relating to attacks on British Policemen. Correspondence from Desmond Morton to his parents
describing his journey out to Palestine and his life as a policeman with descriptions of the
deteriorating security situation and the shock at the decision to withdraw. Includes a small amount
of administrative material relating to the end of Desmond Morton’s service (such as information
on plans to help Palestine Policeman find new jobs after withdrawal) and papers relating to the
Palestine Police Old Comrades’ Association. Also includes a small number of artefacts consisting
of a police badge, a police whistle and Desmond Morton’s General Service Medal with clasp
‘Palestine 1945-8’. 2 boxes. Handlist.
MOTT-RADCLYFFE, Sir Charles Edward. (1911-92). GB165-0211
Memo on the British Army in the Canal Zone, with reports of a meeting with Nasser and Neguib,
May 1954. 23 sheets.
MUMFORD, Richard. (1894-1960). GB165-0212
Photocopied TS reminiscences as confidential clerk to H. St. J. B. Philby in Transjordan. 12
sheets.
MURRAY, Dr. John. (1912-86) GB165-0322
“Iran Today: an economic & descriptive survey” prepared by Dr. Murray for the information of
delegates to the International Islamic Economic Conference, Tehran, October 1950 and newspaper
articles,1955-1964, relating to oil, economics and development in the Middle East by John Murray
and a TS text of a radio broadcast for ‘The World Today’ on ‘Oil – Politics and Power’ broadcast
in 1966. 1 box. Handlist.
MURLY-GOTTO, Anthony (b.1942) GB165-0367
TS article entitled ‘From War to Peace Oman 1975-1978 Snaphots’ by Anthony Murly-Gotto
giving a personal account of his service in Oman and in particular an account of the development
and management of the finances and budgets of Oman’s military. 36 sheets. Handlist
MYER, Henry Dennis. (b.1892). GB165-0213
TS excerpts from letters to his wife written during service with the Jewish Battalion serving under
Allenby, 1918-19; “Soldiering of Sorts”: TS autobiographical account of his war service, n.d.. 1
box.
MYLREA, Dr. C. Stanley G. (1876-1952). GB165-0214
“Before oil came to Kuwait” and “Kuwait before oil”: two TS versions of the memoirs of Dr.
Mylrea, pioneer medical missionary of the Arabian Mission in Bahrain and Kuwait, 1907-47,
including comment on local affairs and the ruling families as well as descriptions of the medical
work of the mission. 1 box. Handlist.
NAIRN TRANSPORT COMPANY. GB165-0215
Press-cuttings relating to Norman and Gerald Nairn, and the formation and work of the Nairn
Transport Company's Beirut to Baghdad passenger, mail and freight service, 1923-46. 1 box.
Handlist
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NALDER, Leonard Fielding. (1888-1958). GB165-0216
Translations of eight messages sent by Feisal to his father during the Arab rising against the Turks,
1917, with two original Arabic texts; Arabic MS on the Yezidis prepared for Nalder by Sidd_q
Al-Daml_j_, 1949; administration reports of the Mosul Division, 1919-21; report “Personalities:
Mosul, Arbil and the Frontier; diary of 1927 Iraqi-Turkish Boundary Demarcation Commission,
with some official correspondence. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic collection.
NEWCOMBE, Col. Stewart Francis. (1878-1956). GB165-0217
Copy of a letter from T.E. Lawrence, 17 January 1917; letters to Ismet Karado_an Bey,18
November 1917, 14 December 1932 and 24 April 1936. 8 sheets.
NICHOLLS, R.K. (b.1921) GB165-0335
OMAN ARCHIVE: Oman Visit Report 1st – 11
th June 1964: Report written by Nicholls for
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO). The report considers suitable marine locations in the Saih
al Malsh Bay area near Muscat for ocean tanker crude oil loading facilities, a barge jetty, and other
problems relating to crude oil off-takes; Oman ‘93: Booklet published by the Ministry of
Information about development within Oman. The booklet was sent to Nicholls as a gift from
Ayild Waleed a former colleague of Nicholls’ and it is annotated to this effect. 1 box. Handlist.
NICHOLSON, William Ewart. (1890-1983). GB165-0218
Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the system of education of the Jewish Community in
Palestine,1945; TS diary as Secretary of the Commission of Enquiry into Jewish Education in
Palestine, 8 October 1945-Feb. 1946, and related material; Handbook of the Jewish Communal
Villages in Palestine by Edwin Samuel, 1945; The Children’s Community of the Hashomer
Hatzair at Mishmar Haemek by Edwin Samuel, [1944]. 1 box
NORMAN, Miss Dorothy Aston. (1907-c.1993). GB165-0219
Letters written to her family during the course of her career as a mathematics teacher at Jerusalem
Girls' College and the English High School, Haifa, 1934-48; letters to her sister, Evelyn, while in
charge of St. George’s Hostel, Jerusalem in the absence of the Warden, September-December
1955. 1 box.
NORTON, Sir Clifford John. (1891-1990). GB165-0220
British Military Administration in Egypt: Arabic proclamation warning villages to be burned,
issued 1918-19; details of a play “The Victory of the Arabs over the Foreigner” presented
Jerusalem (?), 1919, under the patronage of the Amir Feisal; threatening letter received at British
Forces HQ. 4 sheets.
NOTT, Lewis Herbert William. (1869-1964). GB165-0221
Photocopies of letters of appreciation of Nott’s service as Civil Administrator, Gaza, from Sir
Louis Bols, Viscount Samuel, Viscount Allenby, Sir Wyndham Deedes and the Mayor of Gaza,
and others, 1920-22. 22 sheets.
O'MALLEY, Sir Owen St. Clair. (1887-1974). GB165-0222
Photocopy of letter from Sir Harold Nicolson, 23 August 1927, discussing his despatch no. 486 of
30 September 1926 from Tehran, criticising Sir Percy Loraine’s optimism about Anglo-Persian
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relations and giving O’Malley the reasons for his probable resignation from the Foreign Service.
4 sheets.
OWEN, Geoffrey. GB165-0403
Oral history interview of Geoffrey Owen, who served in the Palestine Police 1937-1938,
interviewed by John Knight on 13 Jun 2006. Sound file 92 minutes. Summary of interview 2
sheets and transcript 24 sheets. 3 items.
PALESTINE. GB165-0223
Bound TS proceeedings of “Conferences on Palestine: United Kingdom-Arab Meetings, 7
February-17 March 1939”; Maps relating to the Report of the Anglo-American Committee of
Enquiry regarding the problems of European Jewry and Palestine, HMSO, 1946, supplement to
Cmd. 6808. 1 vol.; 5 items.
PALESTINE AND LEBANON NURSES’ MISSION. GB165-0373
Papers consisting mainly of personal correspondence to and from Miss Ward between 1903-1913,
amongst other letters addressed to women based in the Palestine and Lebanon Nurses’ Mission,
Baakleen. The two diaries of Miss Ward’s relate to her life in Lebanon and England. In addition
to this, there are six pamphlets relating to the mission, giving accounts, committee listings and
reports from the field, dating from between 1903-1909. 1 box. Handlist.
PALGRAVE, William Gifford. (1826-88). GB165-0225
Five MS letters, all missing their final pages, written by Palgrave from various places in Asia
Minor (where he was Consul), 7 February-24 October 1867, to Miss Clara Jekyll, later Lady
Henley, with a note by Albert Hourani; photocopies of 18 letters to his father, and brothers Inglis
and Frank, giving details of his life and travels in the Middle East, 1854-71, with 4 panoramic
sketches of Palestine landscapes. 1 box.
PALIT, Maj.-Gen. Dharitri Kumar. (b.1919) GB165-0226
Military Attaché’s reports from the Indian Embassy, Cairo, to the External affairs Ministry, New
Delhi, concerning Egyptian internal affairs (including the Royal Family), relations with foreign
powers, and military affairs. 1 box.
PARADE MIDDLE EAST WEEKLY GB165-0376
13 Magazines containing war news, advertisements, drawings, cartoons, features, photographs,
stories and puzzles. Published by the Headquarters, British Middle East Forces for the troops in
the Middle East, 1941-1945. 1 box. Handlist.
PARKER, A. Stanley. (b. circa 1895) GB165-0227
Copy of The Egyptian Gazette, 25 May 1921 containing an account of riots in Alexandria; MS
account, 14 February 1966, of a meeting with Lord Lloyd in1925 in connection with Parker’s
report in The Times of an Egyptian Cabinet crisis. 5 sheets.
PARTINGTON, F.M. GB165-0337
OMAN ARCHIVE: File of miscellaneous materials put together by Partington consisting of
photographs of Muscat, Muttrah, Ruwi, and Bait Al Falaj in 1970 and 1980 (stored seperately); a
‘wanted by the Sultanate Government’ poster which was given to Partington by a colleague from
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SAF; a publication by the Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman in London entitled Oman; and a
bound guide to the SAF museum in Bait Al Falaj. 1 box. Handlist.
PAXTON, Julian, F.E. (b.1937) GB165-0331
OMAN ARCHIVE: Miscellaneous collection of PDO (Petroleum Development Oman) company
files mainly from the PDO office in Muscat, which was closed in 1976. The files were retained by
Paxton as part of a salvage operation and would otherwise have been destroyed. The papers
contain some reports, but mainly consist of subject and organisational files used by the staff of the
Muscat office for reference. The collection also contains a small amount of Paxton’s own research
papers arising from his interest in Bertram Thomas an early explorer in Oman, and some printed
materials relating to Oman and other Middle Eastern countries. 14 boxes. Handlist.
PERKINS, William Jackson. (c1892-1969). GB165-0370
Papers relating to William Perkins’ work as a solicitor in Istanbul from the 1930s-1950s, including
newspaper clippings relating to maritime legal cases and judgements of the Supreme Consular
Court of Constantinople, as well as printed judgements of the Court, from the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. There are also several files relating to the court cases concerning the
collision of the Turkish submarine ‘Dumlupinar’ and the Swedish cargo vessel ‘Naboland’ on 4
April 1953 off Nagare Point in the Dardanelles. There is also a collection of personal
correspondence, comprising mainly of letters from William Perkins to his daughter Glen Perkins
between 1933 and 1969. There are also several letters to Glen Perkins from other family members
and friends, some of which refer to William Perkins. 5 boxes. Handlist.
PEROWNE, Stewart Henry. (1901-89). GB165-0228
Personal letters to his family from school, university and throughout his career, 1913-47;
correspondence with friends and colleagues written from Iraq, 1941-47; correspondence with King
Faisal II of Iraq, the Regent Abdulillah, and Nuri As-Said, 1942-57, general correspondence,
1937-71; broadcasts, lectures and articles on the Middle East, 1929-49; miscellaneous personal
papers. 5 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
PEYTON, William Durham. (1917-1991) GB165-0330
OMAN ARCHIVE: The main scope of the papers consists of materials collected by Peyton during
his time in Oman, through his own interest in the country and through his position as Trade
Relations Manager with PDO. The papers also contain materials relating to other countries,
particularly the Yemen, in which Peyton held an interest. 6 boxes. Handlist.
PHILBY, Harry St. John Bridger. (1885-1960). GB165-0229
Political and personal correspondence, memos, travel diaries, exploration reports, engagement
books, published and unpublished literary MSS, c.1915-57, covering Transjordan, Iraq, Palestine,
Arabia and including correspondence and minutes of meetings of Sharqieh Ltd. and Mitchell
Cotts Ltd. 89 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
PIRIE, Charles. (b.1943) GB165-0516
Account of Charles Pirie’s tour of Oman in 1966 entitled ‘Chas’ Muscat & Oman Patrol with
QDG’ by Hugh Nicklin and 41 colour slides taken by Charles Pirie whilst on the tour consisting of
images of Muscat, Nizwa and Sohar and including images of a tribal delegation going to see the
Sultan, Muscat and Nizwa forts, Sultan’s Armed Forces soldiers and outpost, market scenes and
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the Oman coastline. 18 sheets, 41 slides. Handlist. Photographic collection.
PLANT, Capt. Samuel Cornell. (c.1860-1921). GB165-0230
TS copy of account of his experiences, 1884-91, on the Upper Karun River, Persia, as captain of
the “Shushan”, a river-steamer of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company, with an
account of a trip to the tomb of the prophet Daniel and the palace of Shushan. 133 sheets.
Handlist.
POLLOCK, James Huey Hamill. (1893-1982). GB165-0231
Letters and reports relating to religious affairs in Palestine, 1921-49, including Foreign Office
pamphlet “Status quo in the Holy Places of Palestine”; notes, 1943, on censorship procedure and
cinematograph films ordinance (Palestine, 1927); household account book, 1945-46; three TS
letters from W.A. Kerr, 1949, on the situation in Palestine; album of pictures of Tel Aviv by
Abraham Soskin, c.1926. 1 box. Photographic collection.
POOLE, John GB165-0431
Papers, photographs and artefacts relating to John Poole’s service as a British Constable and
Wireless Telegraph Officer in the Palestine Police from 1938 to 1943. Papers relating to his police
work include daily crime reports, summaries of Arabic and Hebrew press items, a propaganda
leaflet and curfew order poster, as well as a Palestine Police Old Comrades’ Association
newsletter from 1955. The photographs cover both his police service and general life in Palestine.
There is also a small collection of artefacts dating from his service in Palestine including badges,
buttons, coins, police whistle and a General Service medal. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic
Collection.
PRICE, Morgan Philips. (1885-1973). GB165-0232
Notes “Zeitun: a remarkable Armenian stronghold”, 2 January 1914; memo on a Persian visit in
October 1953; unpublished MS entitled “The National Revolution in Turkey, Persia and the
Middle East”; diaries of travels in Iran, Iraq and Turkey, 1947; memos, notes and interviews
relating to Afghanistan, Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, 1946-53, including interviews with the
Shah; correspondence 1941-59; press-cuttings relating to the Middle East 1889-1972. 8 boxes.
Handlist. Photographic collection.
QUILLIAM, Brig. Cyril David. (1899-1972). GB165-0233
Cutting from The Times, 2 October 1953 about the death sentence, later commuted, passed on
former Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Abdel Hadi, and Quilliam’s correspondence with Lester
Pearson about this; letter from Lord Stansgate, 12 January 1954 referring to the failure of
negotions with Sidqi Pasha; undated letter from M.F. Nokrashy [but before he went to Lake
Success] declining to comment “on the present situation and the points raised by Mr. Bevin”. 5
sheets.
RAMIREZ, Rosalind Cecilia. (1912-1999). GB165-0408
Papers relating to Rosalind Ramirez’s life and work as governess to King Faisal II of Iraq from
1943 to 1946 and her subsequent life, including letters from King Faisal II, letters of condolence
received upon his death, and the research for and publication of a number of essays on the subject
of Iraq and King Faisal II. 3 boxes. Handlist.
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RAPP, Sir Thomas Cecil. (1893-1984). GB165-0234
Unpublished TS memoirs covering his service in the Canal Zone, 1920-22, 1924-25, 1950-53;
Egypt, 1922-25, 1950-52; Arabia (Hijaz) 1924; Morocco 1926-30; and Persia (Azerbaijan) 1943-
44 including some details of the wartime supply route to Russia and the Kurdish Republic of
Mahabad. 1 box. Handlist.
RATHBONE, Brig. Reginald Blythe. (b. 1895). GB165-0235
MS memoir of service in Palestine, November 1946-April 1948. 7 sheets.
RAWLINSON, Sir Henry Creswiscke. (1810-1895). GB165-0236
Photocopy of Rawlinson’s obituary in The Times, 6 March 1895. 1 sheet.
REILLY, Lt.-Col. Sir Bernard Rawdon. (1882-1966). GB165-0237
Letter, 18 November 1946, to H.R. Cowell about financial arrangements after the Aden Settlement
ended in 1944/45. 1 sheet.
RENDEL, Sir George William. (1889-1979). GB165-0238
“Notes on the proposed Greek participation in the War” TS report written while First Secretary in
the British Legation, Athens during the First World War; TS correspondence between Rendel,
Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, Amir Saud, Yusuf Yassin and Hafiz Wahba following Rendel's visit to
Saudi Arabia, June-July 1937; correspondence with Sir Colin Crowe, December 1964, about his
papers, with recollections of Ibn Saud and Saudi Arabia; TS note, 1965, on the modification of the
Syria-Iraq frontier, 1929-31; TS note, 1966, on the transfer of the Residency from Bushire to
Bahrain; TS note, 1966, on the Kuwait oil concession; photocopied MS diary of his visit to Saudi
Arabia, February-March 1937 1 box. Photographic collection.
RENTON, Maj.-Gen. James Malcolm Leslie. (1898-1972). GB165-0239
Papers relating to the Assyrians, Iraq Levies, and the Iraq Army; correspondence with Members of
Parliament, Save the Children Fund, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church of England
Council on Foreign Relations about the plight of Assyrian refugees, including Eshai Mar Shimun
XXI, the Assyrian Patriarch, and his family. 1 box.
RICE, Col. Harry Patrick (1886-1973). GB165-0240
Memos on the protection of Palestine Government officials during the Arab Rebellion, written by
Rice as Acting Inspector-General of Police, November 1937. 8 sheets. Handlist.
RICHARDS, Herbert Arthur. (1866-1957). GB165-0241
Notebooks and accounts of H.A. Richards’s life in Mesopotamia and Persia, 1896-1909, including
a journey from Ahwaz to Isfahan, and sighting of oil deposits in Shuster; article from a Persian
newspaper on the death of Nasr ed-Din Shah; valedictory letter from Richards’ Persian staff in
Tehran, 1904; letter of thanks from the Office of Works to Richards for his report on the
Associated Khanats in connection with the water supply to the Legation in Tehran, 1904. 1 box.
Photographic collection. Handlist.
RICHARDS, Peter Clifton (b.1909) and RICHARDS, Dolly. GB165-0242
Where am I going?: preliminary draft memoirs. Peter Richards’ autobiography, 1982, covering
the period 1896-1940, including extracts from material written by H.A. Richards in Persia. 1
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folder.
RICHMOND, Sir John Christopher Blake. (1909-90). GB165-0243
Photocopied TS lecture on British policy in Palestine between the First and Second World Wars
given at the Middle East Centre, December 1969. 27 sheets.
RIDLER, Miss Hilda M. (1880-1980). GB165-0244
Off-prints of two lectures given by Miss Ridler to the Barbados Museum and Historical Society,
“The Palestine I Knew. 1914-1948”, 1949, and “Palestine Revisited”, 1952; trilingual Form of
Service commemorating the deliverance of Jerusalem, n.d.; Palestine: a brief description of the
Holy Land, specially written for children, n.d. 27 sheets.
ROBERTS, William Hamish. (b.1927). GB165-0435
Papers relating to Hamish Roberts’ life in Aden while employed by the Halal Shipping Company
Ltd. between 1953-1957 and the Aden Port Trust 1957-1959. There are a number of photographs
of Aden and surrounding areas and material relating to the development and maintenance of Port
Aden. There are also copies of the publication ‘Little Aden Mercury’ documenting the events of
the colonial community, as well as Hamish Roberts’ memoirs of this period. 1 box. Handlist.
Photographic Collection.
RODRICK, Roy. GB165-0395
Oral history interview of Roy Rodrick, who served in the Palestine Police 1945-1948, interviewed
by Katja Zvan on 10 May 2006. Sound file 72 minutes. Summary of interview 1 sheet and
transcript 13 sheets. 3 items.
ROSS, Henry James. (1820-1902). GB165-0245
28 MS letters and 2 undated fragments, chiefly to Sir Henry Layard from Mosul, 1847-48,
(internal politics, defeat of Kurds by Turks, etc.); Malta, 1848-49; London, 1849; Samsoon, 1849,
1851 and 1855-56 (trade, agriculture, Crimea, Turkish attitude towards Christian nations);
Alexandria, 1852 (interview with Abbas Pasha, Viceroy’s attitude to the Porte, etc.); 1 letter to
Ross from Layard, Therapia, 19 July 1849. 107 sheets.
ROSSER, Kevin. (b.1970). GB165-0398
Notes made of research interviews carried out by Kevin Rosser as part of his MPhil work. The
interviewees were Yemenis sent to Egypt and Lebanon for education in the early 1960s, who were
known as the ‘Famous Forty’, 1997-1998. 1 file. Handlist
ROWLATT, Sir Frederick Terry. (1865-1950). GB165-0246
Photocopies of minutes of a meeting of British merchants, Alexandria, 1864; map of Alexandria,
1882; letters on his appointment as Deputy, Egyptian Govt., and Governor of the National Bank of
Egypt, 1898; 1 photocopy and 1 MS letter from Lord Cromer, 1906; photocopy of residential map
of Gezira, Cairo, with names and functions of residents,1917. 35 sheets. Photographic collection.
ROWLEY, Noel. (b.1926). GB165-0578
Photocopy of a volume containing letters from Noel Rowley to his father and then diary entries
relating to his army service in Palestine 1946-1947 and TS memoir ‘The Army Years 1945-1948’
written by Noel Rowley in 1997 with a postscript written in 2013, giving an account of his army
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service in Palestine. 1 file. Handlist.
RUSSELL, Francis Mark. (1927-2007). GB165-0396
Oral history interview of Francis Mark Russell, who served in the Palestine Police 1946-1948,
interviewed by Eugene Rogan on 16 May 2006. Sound file 119 minutes. Summary of interview 1
sheet and transcript 43 sheets. 3 items. Handlist.
RUSSELL, Sir Thomas Wentworth. (1879-1954). GB165-0247
Photocopied MS report on Camel Patrols in Western Desert, 1906; Milner Report, 1921, and other
official papers on Egyptian internal affairs, 1922; papers, 1925, relating to the murder of Sir Lee
Stack in 1924; papers relating to Black Saturday, 1952; photocopied MS and TS letters to his
family giving details of police work in Egypt, 1904-47. 1 box. Handlist.
RYAN, Sir Andrew. (1876-1949). GB165-0248
Papers relating to the Levant Consular Service in Turkey, Rabat and Jidda,1897-1958; personal
and official correspondence; autobiographical notes; MS and TS of autobiography Last of the
Dragomans; literary papers; scrapbooks. 6 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
RYDER, Col. Charles F. (d. 1961). GB165-0249
TS extracts from Ryder’s memoirs relating to the public security of British officials in Egypt,
1922, including letters from Viscount Allenby. 14 sheets.
SADLEIR, Capt. George Forster. (1789-1859). GB165-0250
2 TS copies of P. Ryan’s 1866 Byculla edition of Diary of a journey across Arabia from El Katif
in the Persian Gulf to Yambo in the Red Sea, during the year 1819; F.M. Edwards’ research on
Sadleir’s life (published in the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, January 1957), his
family and the sword presented to him after his Persian mission; photograph of the sword;
original lease of Killwine, King’s County, Ireland, made between Edward, Earl Digby and the
Revd. Dr. Francis Sadleir, 1 September 1825. 1 box.
SALMON, Frederick John. (1882-1964). GB165-0251
Photocopies of correspondence with Lt.-Gen. Sir John Dill, November 1936 on the supply of
maps and plans to British forces in Palestine; photocopied TS note on 12th century church at
Qariat al-Enab, one of the traditional sites of Emmaus; photocopied TS notes compiled for
Squadron Leader T.C. Traill on a flight over the area covered by the southern sheet of Palestine
map 1/250,000; obituary notice from the Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 1964. 6 sheets.
SAMUEL, Sir Herbert Louis, 1st Viscount Samuel. (1870-1963). GB165-0252
Official papers, 1914-39, including some photocopies and carbon copies, on the future of
Palestine, Zionism, the McMahon Correspondence, and a Palestine settlement, also
correspondence with Lord Curzon on Arab nationalism, the French in Syria etc.; photocopies of
letters, 1920-22, to the Hon. Philip Samuel written from Jerusalem by his parents and other
members of his family. 2 boxes; 5 reels of film.
SAUNDERS, Col. Alan. (1886-1964). GB165-0253
Farewell autograph book from Palestine Police colleagues on his transfer to Nigeria, 1935;
Nigerian Police Reports, 1936-37; Tripolitania Police Force and Prison Service Administration
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Reports, 1946-51; maps of Kenya, 1947, and Tanganyika, 1957; article on the Tripolitania Police
in Soldier: The British Army Magazine, vol. 6, no. 5, July 1950, pp.18-21; printed ephemera;
epaulettes, badges and buttons from Palestine and Nigeria Police uniforms. 1 box. Handlist.
Photographic collection.
SCHLEIN, -. GB165-0254
Photocopy of pamphlet Circular of a project for the erection of Palestine into an independent
state, advocating the creation of a Christian state in Palestine, independent of the Ottoman Empire,
c.1841. 3 sheets.
SCHOLES, Carpenter GB165-0371
Papers including a passport, account book, language exercises and religious instruction and 29
photographs of Persia including studio portraits, street scenes some of which are of Tehran, roads
and bridges in the 1890s. 6 items and 29 prints. Handlist. Photographic Collection
SCOTT, Frank Montgomery. (1892-1974). GB165-0255
Official letters of thanks and appreciation, 1928-48, for his work in the Palestine Police and
Prisons Service, and the Control Commission for Germany; medical reports for injuries sustained
by Scott in the discharge of his duties in Jaffa, 1930; press-cuttings; Palestine Prisons Service
Administration report, 1946. 21 sheets; 1 item.
SCOTT, Sir Robert. (1903-1968). GB165-0256
Photocopy of a proclamation in Arabic, English and Hebrew, prohibiting the carrying of arms and
disturbance of the peace, signed by Robert Scott as Acting Chief Secretary, Palestine, 15
November 1945. 1 sheet.
SCRIVENER, Rupert Frederick. (1890-1951). GB165-0257
Papers relating to Scrivener’s service as Chief Engineer of Palestine Railways and Ports, 1923-48,
including reports on sabotage; historical development of railways in Turkey, Palestine and Syria;
1882-1946. 4 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
SEARLE, David. (b.1933) GB165-0562
OMAN ARCHIVE: Papers and photographs relating to David Searle’s service in the Royal Oman
Police, 1980-1984, including his certificate of service, Royal Oman Police Officer’s Club Rules,
official parade programmes, a PDO (Petroleum Development Oman) News magazine and digital
copies of photographs from his service in Oman. 1 file; 119 digital images. Handlist.
SEARLE, Pauline. (1922-2011) GB165-0328
OMAN ARCHIVE: The papers cover the nine year period which Searle spent in Oman as a
journalist for Reuters, relating mainly to the Dhofar war in southern Oman, which was ongoing
during the time Searle lived there, and military operations connected with the war. A significant
part of the papers relate directly to Searle’s work for Reuters, and her communications with
Reuters personnel in Bahrain and London. Other papers are working notes, and written articles
created and collected by Searle in the course of her work. There is a small amount of personal
papers and printed material. Some of the materials look at the wider context of life in Oman for
the local people. c1968-1979. 4 boxes. Handlist.
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SHAHAK, Prof. Israel. (b.1933) GB165-0258
Two duplicated copies of “As-sahy_n_ya: al-haq_qa bi-k_milh_” [“Zionism: the truth in its
entirety”] by Israel Shahak with an introduction by Emil Thoma, 5 January 1975; duplicated
translations from the Israeli press, annotated by Prof. Shahak, on the treatment of Arabs in Israel
and the Occupied Territories, with other examples of eye-witness testimony, January-June 1975
and April-September 1976; duplicated TS of “What are my opinions” by Israel Shahak, n.d. 1
box.
SHEPHERD, Sir Francis Michie. (1892-1962) GB165-0372
Unpublished memoirs of Sir Francis Shepherd entitled ‘Never Trouble Trouble’ consisting of a TS
hardbound photocopy including photographs and a bound incomplete MS version. The Memoir
covers Sir Francis Shepherd’s childhood and career, including an account of his wartime service in
Mesopotamia in 1915 in which he took part in the military campaign to relieve General
Townshend at Kut and also his service as British Ambassador to Persia in 1950-1952. 2 boxes.
Handlist.
SHLAIM, Avi. (b. 1945) GB165-0348
Unedited typescript of the book The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World published by W.W.
Norton in the US and by Penguin Books in the UK. The unedited transcript is about 30,000 words
longer than the published version. The section ‘Israel’s International Orientation’ in chapter 2,
pp74-85 was not included in the published version and the conclusion was rewritten, shortened
and renamed Epilogue. The cuts were made by Avi Shlaim or were approved cuts suggested by the
editor. 2 boxes. Handlist.
SHONE, Sir Terence Allen. (1894-1965). GB165-0259
MS account of events leading up to the accession of Yugoslavia to the Tripartite Pact and of the
coup d’état in Belgrade, 1941; report on conditions in the Levant, April-August 1945, with diary
notes by Lady Shone on events in Damascus, May-June 1945, and of a visit to Latakia, Hama, and
Selimieh, 9-15 September 1945. 2 folders. Photographic collection.
SIDQI PASHA, Isma’il. (1875-1950). GB165-0260
MS note in French, 18 November 1946, on his conversation with Ernest Bevin, on his
conversations in London, 17-25 October, with Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary, concerning
the revision of the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, with typed transcript. 5 sheets.
SIMS, Les. (b.1926). GB165-0490
TS Memoir ‘A Private’s Story’ written by Les Sims giving an account of his wartime service from
his call up on 25 July 1944 to his demobilisation in 1947 and covering his training and Army
service in France, Palestine and Transjordan with a more detailed description of his duties in
Palestine, such as road blocks and searches during 1946. The memoir also includes copies of
photographs of Aug 3 Squad and Les Sims and his brother Arthur Sims on Christmas Day 1945. 1
item (6 sheets). Handlist.
SINDERSON, Sir Harry Chapman. (1891-1974). GB165-0261
“Physician to Iraq’s Royal Family 1923-46: the memoirs of Sir Harry Sinderson Pasha, KBE,
CMG, MVO, FRCP (Edin.), being the full manuscript version of Ten Thousand and One Nights
published by Hodder and Stoughton 1973”: TS produced by Derek Hill, 1991, from Sinderson’s
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original MS; press-cuttings on Iraq, taken mainly from The Iraq Times, 1920, 1925-27, 1929-46,
1953. 1 box and 11 oversize files. Handlist. Photographic collection.
SKEET, Ian. (b.1928) GB165-0329
OMAN ARCHIVE: The main scope of the papers are research materials for two books about
Oman, written by Skeet: Muscat and Oman: the End of an Era Faber and Faber, London 1974;
and Oman: Politics and Development Macmillan, 1992. Other materials relate to Skeet’s interest
in other Middle Eastern countries, and there are a few personal documents. Broad subjects
covered by the papers are: The Sultanate and life in Oman before 1970, and the development of
the country under the new Sultan Qaboos from 1970. A large number of the materials focus on
the development of law and the economy in Oman from 1970. 5 boxes. Handlist.
SKRINE, Sir Clarmont Percival. (1888-1974). GB165-0262
Off-print of “The Quetta earthquake” [31 May 1935], a paper read by C.P. Skrine to the Royal
Geographical Society, 8 June 1936, published in The Geographical Journal, vol. 88 no. 5, 1936.
11 sheets.
SLADE-BAKER, Col. John Bigelow. (d. 1966). GB165-0263
Diaries, despatches and memoranda relating to the Middle East and North Africa, 1948-66, mostly
compiled by Slade-Baker during his work as a correspondent for The Sunday Times, 1952-60;
press-cuttings; maps. 16 boxes; 4 vols. Handlist. Photographic collection.
SLUGLETT, Peter. GB165-0264
TS note compiled by Peter Sluglett of extracts from papers in the Public Record Office relating to
the Assyrian massacre of 1933. 3 sheets.
SMART, Sir Walter Alexander. (1883-1962). GB165-0265
Walter Smart, by Some of His Friends, (Chichester Press, n.d.): a series of essays in appreciation
of Sir Walter Smart by Julian Amery, Maie Casey, Lawrence Durrell, Robin Fedden, Allanah
Harper, John Hamilton, Patrick Kinross, Patrick Leigh-Fermor, Freya Stark and Christopher
Sykes. 1 item.
SMILEY, David. (1916-2009) GB165-0336
OMAN ARCHIVE: The papers relate to the later part of Smiley’s career as CSAF (Commander
Sultan’s Armed Forces) in Oman, and consist mainly of correspondence between Smiley and
colleagues, and the Sultan Said bin Taimur, and a report by Smiley on the SAF. 1 box. Handlist.
SMITH, Arthur Lionel Forster. (1880-1972). GB165-0266
Correspondence with Humphrey Bowman, Sir Reader Bullard, Sir Arnold Wilson and others,
including material on education in Iraq and Palestine, and other Iraqi affairs, 1920-31;
correspondence from Jerome Farrell and C.J. Edmonds, 1959-60. 5 boxes. Photographic
collection. Handlist
SMITH, John Allan. (1894-1966). GB165-0510
Papers relating to the life and work of John Allan Smith at Gellatly, Hankey and Co (Sudan) Ltd
consisting of a newspaper article entitled ‘J.A. Smith leaves’, along with a 4 sheet extract from a
history of the firm that mentions John Allan Smith and his work at Gellatly, Hankey and Co.
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Souvenir photographs showing the Hajj before the end of Ottoman rule, that were sent to John
Allan Smith in 1923 by a friend who had been on the pilgrimage. 2 files. Handlist. Photographic
Collection.
SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME BELGE-EGYPTIENNE DE L’EZBEKIEH.
GB165-0267
Correspondence and agreements, 1921-27, relating to the purchase by the New Egyptian Company
and M. Josse Allard of shares belonging to His Highness Abbas Hilmi II, ex-Khedive of Egypt, in
the Société Anonyme Belge-Egyptienne de l’Ezbekieh. 52 sheets
SOMERSET, Fitzroy Richard, 4th Baron Raglan. (1885-1964). GB165-0268
Photocopied papers on the British administration in Transjordan, including Hon. Fitzroy
Somerset’s letters to his parents, memoranda and correspondence on border and security matters,
1919-21; minutes of the Jerusalem conference, 1921; correspondence between Elizabeth Monroe,
Major Monckton and Lt-Col. F.G. Peake, 1967-68, about the Somerset Papers. 1 box.
SPEARS, Maj.-Gen. Sir Edward Louis, 1st Baronet. (1886-1974). GB165-0269
Papers relating to Syrian and Lebanese affairs including the Spears Mission, 1941-44; the
Lebanese constitutional crisis, 1943; Syrian and Lebanese independence; the future of Palestine;
Anglo-Arab Association correspondence, 1946-66; Mt. Scopus case, 1953; Anglo-Arab Club
correspondence, 1962-70; British-Tunisian Society correspondence; Middle Eastern affairs in
general; press-cuttings on Syria and Lebanon, Palestine, Arab refugees, the Arab-Israeli conflict.
28 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
SPRY, Sir John Farley. (b.1910) GB165-0315
Papers relating to land law and land tenure in Palestine, 1919-48. 1 box. Handlist.
STAINTON, Benjamin Whitelaw. (1856-1927). GB165-0270
Baptismal certificate of Elsie Stainton, Shiraz, 1884; 2 menus for dinners given by the Shah, 1901
and 1902; 2 letters from General A. Houtum Schindler to Stainton, 1907 and 1912; MS notes for
Stainton’s Persian dictionary/grammar; series of articles on Persia by Stainton published in The
Financier, 1912-13; press-cuttings from British newspapers on Persian affairs, 1914-31; signed
off-prints of 15 articles on Persia, India and Central Asia from The Scottish Geographical
Magazine, 1916-20, by Lt.-Col. A.C. Yate. 1 folder. Handlist.
STANLEY, Sir Henry Morton. (1841-1904). GB165-0271
Typed transcript of a letter to Charles Sterling, 2 July 1898, on the prospects of an advance
beyond Khartoum to Fashoda. 1 sheet.
STEINFELD, Rebecca: Fertility Policy in Israel GB165-0574
A series of interviews undertaken by Rebecca Steinfeld in support of her DPhil for the Department
of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, entitled “The History and Politics of
Fertility Policy in Israel, 1948-2010”. Topics covered in the interviews include discussions of
policy, reproductive culture, demographic issues, religious issues, fertility tourism and the
interviewees’ roles in the process and development of fertility policy. 2 boxes, 21 Mp3 recordings.
Handlist.
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STORRS, Sir Ronald. (1881-1955). GB165-0272
TS notes on Pt. 1 of the Arab Bulletin, n.d.; Reuter’s duplicated text of a lecture by Storrs on T.E.
Lawrence, 18 June 1935. 15 sheets.
STRAHAN, Alec J. (b. 1918) and HARRIS, Martin. (b.1915) GB165-0273
Photocopied TS extract from the diary of Captain Strahan RA, 8 February 1942 relating to the
Abdin Palace incident, with an account by Capt. Martin Harris RHA of the same incident; two
letters from Alec Strahan, January and February 1990, supplementing these accounts. Chapters 9 –
17 of Alec Strahan’s Memoirs. One black and white photograph of Alec Strahan, April 1944. 1
folder. Handlist.
SULTAN’S ARMED FORCES ASSOCIATION GB165-0333
OMAN ARCHIVE: A full serial of the Association publication (Newsletters, later Journals), and a
small amount of printed ephemera. The Newsletters reports on the activities of the SAF, and
social events of the Society. Activities of the Anglo-Omani Society are also documented in the
later issues. The publication is intended to be a journal of record containing illustrated articles of
historic as well as current interest, book reviews relevant to SAF and to Oman and personal details
of members, including obituaries. The publication provides insight into the development and
achievements of the military in Oman over a period of thirty years, as well as regular descriptions
of the development of the country itself in a context not solely military. 3 boxes. Handlist.
SYKES, Herbert Rushton. (1870-1952). GB165-0274
Tour diaries and survey reports relating to the construction of the Indo-European Telegraph line,
1902-04, and lectures on Persian geography, 1903, 1905 and 1907. 2 boxes. Handlist.
Photographic collection.
SYKES, Sir Mark, 6th Baronet. (1879-1919). GB165-0275
Photocopies and microfilms of documents 1-130 from Section 11 of the Sledmere Papers,
including material on the Arab revolt; 1915-16, Sykes-Picot agreement 1916-17; liberation of
Baghdad 1917; agreements on Asia Minor; Zionism; Palestine settlements 1917-19. 2 boxes.
Handlist.
SYKES, Edward Molesworth. (1910-1992). GB165-0344
Photographs of construction work in the late 1930s of the railway from Abadan to Tehran with a
short account by Edwards Sykes of his work on the railway. One photograph, taken in April 1944,
showing Edward Sykes seated in a tent with the Khans of the Qashqai tribe, negotiating the
handover of some escaped German agents and one page of an account written by Edward Sykes
detailing his journey to Tehran in August 1942 and the work assigned to S.O.E. 30 items.
Handlist.
SYKES, Sir Percy Molesworth. (1867-1945). GB165-0276
Reports of a mission 1892; a reconnaissance through Persian Baluchistan and Eastern Persia,
1893-94; routes and notes of a third journey in Persia (War Office, 1894); Perso-Baluch Boundary
Commission papers, 1896; foundation of the Sistan Consulate; despatches to Lord Salisbury on
current events, 1899-1900; report on the agriculture of Khorasan (Simla, 1910); bombardment of
the Meshed shrine, 1912; reports and despatches of South Persia Rifles, 1917-18; miscellaneous
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writings on Persia, Anglo-Russian occupation, modern Turkey, etc; reports, despatches,
correspondence and miscellanea relating to Sykes’ work in Persia 1905-18; correspondence with
Allenby, the Foreign Office and others 1934-45; lectures, articles and press-cuttings on Central
Asian affairs 1897-1982. 6 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
TASSELL, Robert. (1784-1867) GB165-0277
Letter-book containing copies of Robert Tassell’s letters to his daughter Mary describing his
journey to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria with his son Robert, 30 October 1839-25 July 1840; diary,
11 April-9 May 1840, of same journey illustrated with pencil sketches. 1 box. Handlist.
TATTON-BROWN, Eden. (1877-1961) GB165-0433
Papers relating to Eden Tatton-Brown’s life and work in Egypt in the Ministry of Education and
then in the Customs Administration, including an account of a journey to Mt. Sinai, letters to his
wife and mother and his memoirs, 1877-1932, 2003. 1 box. Handlist.
TAYLOR, Major Charles Theodore Cochrane. (b. 1895). GB165-0278
TS draft autobiography “Many Happy Returns”, indexed, and illustrated with photographs,
covering Major Taylor's early life, training at Sandhurst, military service in France and Turkey
during the First World War, emigration to Southern Rhodesia under the Empire Settlement
Scheme to take up tobacco farming, military service in Turkey during the Second World War, and
postwar white Rhodesian politics, with a MS postscript dealing with Rhodesian affairs from 1976.
1 box.
TEAGUE, Mrs. Heather, née Fairley. (d.1966). GB165-0279
Duplicated TS letters, April 1936-June 1940, to her parents and brother Harold from Jerusalem
where her husband, Col. John Teague, was working for the Government of Palestine. 44 sheets.
TEESDALE, Capt. Frank Robinson. (d.1916) GB165-0280
Photocopied TS biographical notes on Capt. Teesdale and summary of a ten page diary of his
journey from Aleppo to Basra , 20 December 1909-15 January 1910, while serving with the 75th
Cavalry (Frontier Force) Indian Army. 3 sheets.
TEGART, Sir Charles Augustus. (1881-1946). GB165-0281
Papers relating to British policy in Palestine, internal security, the reorganisation of the Palestine
Police, construction of border defences, and police work in general, 1937-39; personal papers
relating to the attempt on his life, 31 December 1938; press-cuttings. 5 boxes. Handlist.
Photographic collection.
THAMES TELEVISION. GB165-0282
Photocopied transcripts of research interviews with British officials, Jews and Arabs, used in the
three-part series Palestine, produced by Richard Broad and transmitted by Thames Television, 27
June-11 July 1978. Handlist. 2 boxes.
THE STAR NEWSPAPER ARMISTICE EDITION GB165-0434
Armistice edition of The Star newspaper, 11 Nov 1918, announcing ‘The War is Over (Official).
Armistice Signed at 5am’ reporting on the end of fighting, the abdication of the Kaiser as well as
some short articles on the arrival of British troops at Dedeagatch in Turkey and the appointment of
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Admiral Gough-Calthrope as High Commissioner at Constantinople to maintain ‘contact with the
Turkish Government during the present transitional period’. Handlist. 1 item.
THOMPSON, Barbara M., née Sherrell. (1904-1992). GB165-0283
Travels of Tatah 1938-45 by Barbara M. Thompson: illustrated account by the wife of Jack
Thompson, Senior Medical Officer Palestine Railways, of her journey to Palestine and subsequent
wartime journeys between Palestine and South Africa, edited by Michael Thompson; additional
biographical information by Michael Thompson. 78 sheets. Photographic collection.
THORNE, Charles GB165-0347
Photocopy of the original diary kept by Charles Thorne 29 Aug 1915 – 19 Jan 1918, TS
transcription of Charles Thorne’s diary entitled ‘A Wartime Diary by Trooper Charles Thorne of
the Warwickshire Yeomanry 1915 to 1918’. 1 box. Photographic Collection.
TIBAWI, Abdul-Latif. (b. 1910). GB165-0284
Two printed letters from the Patriarchs of Jerusalem and Antioch,1887, probably intended for
private circulation; Jihad, 1914 - photocopies of Ottoman proclamations in Turkish and French;
map of the administrative divisions in Greater Syria, 1914; two letters in Arabic from Prof. Anis
al-Maqdisi,1932; Arab Revolt, 1936 -Qawuqji's 1st and 8th proclamations; monthly Newsletter
no. 2 of the 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regt.; three letters written by A.L. Tibawi but published
under the name or initials of his friend Alfred Haik; pact of 1919 submitted to the Palestine Royal
Commission, Jan. 1937, with associated articles, letters and press-cuttings; pamphlet “The Husain
McMahon correspondence, or, Palestine is covered by the British pledge of 1915 regarding the
Arab independence”, Jaffa, 1939; report on education in the Southern District, Palestine Feb. 1941
- Oct. 1945; letters from A.J. Arberry and H.A.R. Gibb relating to Guillaume's translation of the
Sirah; essay on Islamic biographical dictionaries by Tarif Khalidi,1973; essay entitled “The Basic
features of Arabic poetry at the beginning of the Abbasid period” by V.K. Belayer, 1960. 4 boxes.
Handlist.
TOD, George (b.1914) GB165-0349
Photocopy of ‘From Pillar to Post. The family and autobiography of George Tod’ who worked in
the oil industry, including material on Iraq 1940-1965, Lebanon 1950-1953, Syria 1953-1956 and
South East Arabia 1956-1962. 1 box
TOMLINSON, David GB165-0360
TS memoir written by David Tomlinson in October 2003 describing his arrival in Palestine and
evacuation in Operation Polly 1946-1947 and including a brief description of his work as Shell’s
District Sales Manager in Aden and the Federation of South Arabia in 1964-1967. 24 photographs
of rescue work, mainly showing the clearing of the debris, after the bombing of the King David
Hotel, 1946. 5 sheets; 24 photographs. Handlist.
TOTTENHAM, Percy Marmaduke. (1873-1975). GB165-0285
TS copy of a letter, 11 March 1905, to his mother describing the Sobat to Bor expedition; Times
press-cutting, 20 April 1972, of Tottenham’s recollections, as Under-Secretary of State for Public
Works, of the discovery of the tomb of Tutunkhamun; TS note on the history of the Egyptian
Irrigation Service written for the Sudan Diocesan Review, May 1972. 27 sheets.
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TRIPE, William Borrowdale. (b.1906). GB165-0287
TS report, 1942, on the political development of Transjordan with a view to the possibility of
applying its system of government to Cyrenaica at some future time; explanatory note, unsigned,
on the background to the creation of the report. 32 sheets.
TUDOR-POLE, W. (1884-1968). GB165-0288
Photocopied TS reminiscences of the Balfour Declaration and of personalities in the Zionist
Commission to Palestine, 1918, with a photocopy of a covering MS letter to Mrs. Grieve, October
1967, an explanatory note by Lord Wakehurst, November 1967, and notes by Elizabeth Monroe,
1971, and Bernard Wasserstein, 1972. 13 sheets.
TYRRELL, John. GB165-0413
Oral history interview of John Tyrrell, who served in the Palestine Police 1945-1948, interviewed
by Anziska Seth on 8 Jun 2007. Sound file 49 minutes. Summary of interview 1 sheet and
transcript 17 sheets. 3 items.
TWEEDY, Owen Meredith. (1888-1960). GB165-0289
Papers, diaries and press-cuttings relating to his service in the Middle East, journalism and
exploration, 1926-52, with diaries of trips to Russia, 1930, and Germany, 1933, forming the basis
of his published works. 7 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PALESTINE. GB165-0290
TS report of a conference between UNSCOP representatives Mr. Emil Sandstrom, Dr. Victor Hoo
and Dr. Ralph Bunche, and the Commander and two other representatives of the Irgun Zvai
Leumi, 24 June 1947, giving details of the movement’s origins and policies; TS transcript of an
anti-British broadcast, 13 August 1947, from The Voice of Fighting Zion, the broadcasting station
of the Irgun Zvai Leumi. 14 sheets.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. GB165-0291
Microfilms of American diplomatic documents relating to the internal affairs of the Ottoman
Empire and Turkey, 1910-29, and of Iraq, 1930-44. 35 reels.
VAUX, Sir Richard Augustus. (1869-1946). GB165-0293
“Egyptian and Other Episodes, Personal, Political and Legal”: TS unpublished memoirs, 1941, of
his youthful travels to Australia and New Zealand, legal training in London and Paris, and later
career in Egypt, 1903-39, by a former President of the Mixed Court of Appeal of Egypt. 1 box.
VIVIAN, Sir Hussey Crespigny, 3rd Baron Vivian. (1834-93). GB165-0294
Correspondence, mainly with Lord Salisbury, and press-cuttings concerning the British
Government’s promotion of reform in Egypt, the difficulties encountered, and Vivian’s removal
from office as Consul-General, 1879; correspondence relating to Vivian’s transfer to Berne, 1879,
and to his appointment as Ambassador to Italy, 1892, and offer of posting to Russia, 1892. 1 box.
WADE, Harry Llewellyn. (1908-1983). GB165-0592
Biographical account and photo album relating to Harry Wade’s Royal Air Force service in Iraq
and India between 1928 and 1934. The photo album includes photos of landscapes, aircrafts, and
military life, taken, ordered and labelled by Harry Wade. It also includes photographs with an
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anthropological interest such as ‘Iraqi types’ and ‘Kurdish and Indian types’. 1 file, 1 box.
Handlist. Photographic Collection.
WADDINGTON, James Hilary Sheffield. (1903-89). GB165-0323
Photographs and papers relating to the survey of Athlit Castle, Palestine, 1930-1936 including
photographs of the ruins of Athlit Castle, map of Athlit, financial accounts of the survey and
temperature charts. Photographs showing scenes north of Jericho 1930-1935; Album of
illustrations to accompany note on Madreseh el Khatuniyeh Jerusalem; photographs of Ramleh
and a pot makers photograph exhibited at the R.I.B.A Camera Club; as well as an architectural
sketch plan of a house near Herod’s Gate, Jerusalem. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic Collection.
WARD, Richard Joseph. (b.1921) GB165-0427
Papers relating to the life and work of Richard J Ward, Senior Economist and Program Director
for U.S. Aid, in Jordan from 1961-1963, including U.S. AID Memorandums, Reports and Tables;
Social observations on local habits and customs; and Travel Notes. 2 boxes. Handlist.
WARTON, Keith. (1940-2010) GB165-0569
Papers and photographs relating to Keith Warton’s secondment from the Royal Air Force to the
Sultan of Oman’s Air Force (SOAF) between September 1966 and May 1968. The papers include
maps of Oman, captions for slides and notes written by Keith Warton for talks given on a trip to
Oman in 2008. The notes include general notes on equipment, facilities, tactics and operations; an
account of an ambush on an oil convoy in 1967 and an account of evacuating casualties from
Raven’s Roost airstrip in 1968. The photographs consist of 2 boxes of 35mm colour slides taken
by Keith Warton during his service in Oman 1966-1968 and include images of daily life in Oman,
army movements, roads, aircraft, street scenes, aerial photography, official ceremonies and
landscapes. 2 folders; 2 slide boxes. Handlist.
WATERFIELD, Gordon. (1903-87). GB165-0295
Research material for a biography of Sir Percy Loraine including copies of correspondence with
Gertrude Bell and copies of official documents in the Public Record Office, 1921-23; research
material on Sir Henry Layard, including speeches, 1854 and 1868, and miscellanea;
correspondence, 1933-74, with Gerald Delany and others relating to Egyptian affairs of the1920s-
40s. Handlist. 5 boxes.
WEBB, Cecil Richard. (1887-1974). GB165-0297
Palestine Railways Annual Report, 1930; letter from Webb to his wife about his trip across the
desert from Damascus to Baghdad in the Nairn Transport bus 16 April 1934; photocopy of
Beatrice Webb’s TS account of the evacuation of families of British officials at Suez, 1941; menu
of a dinner at the King David Hotel, 19 January 1931; two membership cards of the Sodom and
Gommorrah Golfing Society Dead Sea Golf Course, 3 January 1941. 18 sheets; 4 items.
Photographic collection. Handlist.
WELLS, Edward H. (b.1924) GB165-0393
Oral history interview of Edward Wells, who served in the Palestine Police 1944-1948,
interviewed by Josephine Delap on 27 Apr 2006. Sound file 44 minutes. Summary of interview 1
sheet and transcript 13 sheets. Also includes a photocopy of letter from B.N. Hinga
(Commissioner of Police, Kenya) to Mr Wells summarising his career and giving thanks for his
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devoted service, 23 Aug 1965. 4 items. Handlist.
WHEELER, Lt.-Col. Geoffrey Edleston. (1897-1990). GB165-0298
TS memoirs “Fifty years of Asia” concerning his career in the Indian Army, linguistic pursuits,
Intelligence work in Turkey, Persia, India and Iraq, work for the Ministry of Information in India,
and the foundation of the Central Asian Research Centre; TS article on orientalists in the Soviet
Union, 1960. 1 box. Handlist.
WHEELER, Percy D’Erf (1861-1944) and Grace (b.1872). GB165-0355
Papers relating to the life and work of Dr. Percy D’Erf Wheeler, especially in the London Jews
Society Mission Hospital in Jerusalem 1892-1944; Published articles mainly concerning mission
work, such as the work of St Luke’s Boarding School for Boys in Haifa and material collected by
Mrs Whishaw including papers relating to the death of the Palestine Policemen Captain J.
Mackenzie in 1922 and two reports on the Coptic Orthodox Church in 1985. 1 box. Handlist.
Photographic collection.
WHEELER, Brig. Ralph Pung. (1898-1977). GB165-0299
MS notes on a visit to Wadi Ballut, 23 March 1946, while serving with the Survey Directorate,
Palestine, with maps showing military positions of Wheeler's company there March-August 1918.
4 sheets.
WHITE, Harold ‘Chalky’. (1922-2012) GB165-0600
Two printed pamphlets relating to Chalky White’s service in the Palestine Police consisting of the
Criminal Code Ordinance Consolidated Edition (as in Force on 1st March 1945) published by P.
Kadi, Jerusalem and the Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry regarding the
problems of European Jewry and Palestine, Lausanne, 20th
April 1946 Miscellaneous No 8 (1946)
His Majesty’s Stationery Office Cmd. 6808. 1 file (2 items). Handlist.
WHITEHOUSE, Frank GB165-0359
Letter from Abdul Mecid (last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire) to Canon Frank Whitehouse 9
September 1920 and a photocopy of a letter discussing the background of Abdul Mecid’s letter. 3
items.
WHITTALL & CO. GB165-0300
TS account of the Whittall family and their business, C. Whittall & Co., in Istanbul and Izmir
(Smyrna), 1812-1938. Booklet ‘The Genealogy of the Whittall Family of Turkey’ compiled and
produced by Betty and Paul McKernan, Nov 1996. 15 sheets; 1 booklet
WILSON, Henry Beckles. (Canadian journalist). GB165-0301
TS copy of a letter, 15 October 1918, from Wilson to Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of
Canada, recounting T.E. Lawrence’s description of the capture of Damascus, with comments on
the proposed French mandate and the situation in Palestine. 7 sheets.
WILSON, Miss H. M. (d. circa 1992). GB165-0302
“School year in Palestine, 1938-39”: TS account of a teacher’s life at the Arab High School, Bir
Zeit, during the Arab rebellion; curfew pass; notice in Arabic. 79 sheets; 2 items; 13 photographs.
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WILSON, Monica (b. 1920). GB165-0573
Papers relating to Monica Wilson’s work in Palestine as a radio broadcaster, journalist and civil
servant, consisting of letters to her parents, 1943-1948 which include accounts of the bombing of
the Palestine Post and the King David Hotel as well as the siege of Jerusalem; a statement from
Monica Wilson regarding her letters from Palestine (c.2010); an overview of Monica Wilson’s
letters by Roger Hardy, 2013; 14 transcripts of letters written by Monica Wilson, transcribed by
Roger Hardy 2013. 2 boxes. Handlist.
WILSON, (Thomas) Woodrow. (1856-1924). GB165-0303
Photocopy of letter to the Hon. A.J. Balfour 19 May 1917, acknowledging his explanation of the
Allied case. 1 sheet. (Original in PRO: F.O./208).
WILTSHIRE, Edward Parr. (b.1910) GB165-0318
Photocopied TS account, 1984, of his experiences in Lebanon in the 1930s and his friendship
with Antun Sa’ada while studying Arabic at the American University of Beirut, with a résumé of
subsequent Lebanese history. 22 sheets. Photographic collection.
WINGATE, Sir Ronald Evelyn Leslie, 2nd. Baronet. (1889-1978). GB165-0304
TS copy of proclamation of the deposition of the Khedive and establishment of a British
Protectorate in Egypt, December 1914; papers on Wingate’s service in Mesopotamia, and Muscat
and Oman, 1917-22, with TS of a lecture on this subject, including an account of the Treaty of
Sib, given at the Middle East Centre, 1965; TS article on the papers of Sir Samuel Baker for the
period 1875-93. 1 box. Handlist.
WOLSELEY, Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley. (1833-1913).
GB165-0305
Photocopies of 19 private letters, 7 August 1882-18 June 1885 written from Egypt and the Sudan
by Wolseley to H.R. Hopkins, Adjutant General, War Office. 31 sheets.
WOOD, Barbara (b.1926) GB165-0375
Mainly consisting of copies of a diary of life in Saudi Arabia kept during the 1960s and 1970s,
typed up by their creator in the 1990s. Additional papers, comprising of an introduction to events
leading up to the beginning of the diaries, and a key to the pseudonyms used in the typed version
of the diary, augment the major papers. Further to this there are also 14 sheets of photocopied
photographs which were taken in around the same period as the original diary. Handlist. 1 box.
Photographic collection.
WOOD, Sir Richard. (1806-1900). GB165-0306
Personal and career papers, 1824-98; political correspondence, 1831-98, including service in
Damascus ands Tunis; travel diaries and notebooks, including a journey from Baghdad to Ali
Pasha’s camp at Harir, 1836, and through Kurdistan; memorandum of Wood’s services to the
British Government; papers concerning Wood’s landholding in Syria; family correspondence.
Handlist. 8 boxes.
WRIGHT, Sir Denis. (b.1911) GB165-0316
TS edited extracts of letters and diaries covering his service as a British Vice-Consul in Romania
and Turkey, 1939-45 1 box.
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WYLIE, Sir Francis Verner. (1891-1970). GB165-0307
Duplicated TS copy of a letter, 11 February 1954, from Wylie to E.B. Boothby, Foreign Office,
about the policy of the Egyptian Government to the Suez Canal Company. 4 sheets.
YALE, William. (1887-1975). GB165-0308
Microfilm and photocopies of Yale’s reports 1-31 (lacking nos.4 and 30) from Cairo, Jerusalem,
London, etc., 1917-18, and Paris Peace Conference, 1919; papers on his appointment to Cairo,
1917; letter of thanks from Lord Allenby, 28 January 1919; interview with Elizabeth Monroe,
1960s; portions of unpublished MS memoir “It takes so long” on Palestine, 1914, and events in
Damascus, 27 September-5 October 1918, written in 1938; correspondence with Elizabeth
Monroe. 2 boxes. Handlist.
YOUNG, Sir Hubert Winthrop. (1885-1950). GB165-0309
Photocopies of papers relating to a journey across the Ottoman Empire, 1913; service in the
Middle East, 1917-32, chiefly in Iraq, but including the Sherifian campaign, 1917-18; the future of
Palestine. 1 box. Handlist.
YOUNG, J.W.A. GB165-0310
TS and MS memoirs “A Little to the East: Experiences of an Anglo-Egyptian Official, 1899-
1925”; TS accounts of 3 months in Jidda, 1916, and a journey to Baghdad before the First World
War; TS memoir of his Egyptian syce, El Usta Mohammed; TS dramatised account of the
appointment and punishment of Egyptian village omdas and sheikhs; off-print of an account of a
journey to survey the Khedive’s estates in Dalaman Valley, Anatolia, published in The Cairo
Scientific Journal no.38, vol.III, Nov. 1909. 1 box.
ZANANIRI, Fr. Gaston. (b. 1904) GB165-0311
TS of “Histoire contemporaine de l’Egypte, 1800-1962", Zananiri’s unpublished book on the
modern history of Egypt,1965; photocopied TS of an English translation of his unpublished book
“Problems of Egypt”, 1940s. 1 box.
ZISSU, Theodore A.L. (1916-42). GB165-0312
Two duplicated undated TS reports on the Negev, with maps: “A report embodying the data at
present available relating to the Negeb: the Negeb and partition.”; “Notes on the Negeb,
Palestine’s empty half.”. 2 items.
UNCATALOGUED MATERIAL
Access to uncatalogued material is restricted, please contact the archivist for further details. In
some cases draft handlists are available.
ALTOUNYAN, Dr. Ernest Huie Riddall. (1890-1962). GB165-0006
Papers relating to medical work in Syria. One file (94 sheets) containing typescript lectures by
Altounyan 1946-1959 is open. The rest of the collection has restricted access and a draft
catalogue. 12 boxes.
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ANGLO-PALESTINE ARCHIVES PROJECT. GB165-0010
Working files of correspondence with individuals and institutions leading to the publication of
Britain and Palestine 1914-1948: Archival Sources for the History of the British Mandate,
compiled by Philip Jones and published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,
1979; handlists and guides to various collections and institutions; Anglo-Palestine Archives
Committee: minutes of meetings, etc. Uncatalogued. 4 lever-arch files; 3 boxes.
BICKERSTETH, Revd. Edward Monier. (1882-1976). GB165-0027
Papers relating to his work as Secretary of the Jerusalem and the East Mission,1915-32. Draft
Catalogue. 8 boxes.
BUTT, Charles Richard (1935-2006) GB165-0043
TS account illustrated with 4 photographs by Sgt. Charles Butt, 2nd Battalion Aden Protectorate
Levies, of a border incident at Merta, Aden Protectorate, in June 1958. Copies of Al-Aqsa and
other uncatalogued material relating to the Sultan’s Armed Forces, Oman. 2 boxes. Photographic
Collection.
CAFFERATA, Col. Raymond Oswald. (1897-1966). GB165-0044
Photocopies of press-cuttings and notes on the life of Col. R.O. Cafferata, Palestine Police 1922-
48 (54 sheets) plus additional papers and photographs covering his childhood, service in the First
World War, the Royal Irish Constabulary, the Palestine Police also including some post Palestine
Police papers such as articles, correspondence and obituaries. Draft Catalogue. 5 boxes.
GLUBB, Lt.-Gen. Sir John Bagot. (1897-1986). GB165-0118
Memoranda, reports, telegrams and correspondence relating to Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan,
1920s-50s. 14 boxes. Draft Catalogue.
HENDERSON, Alexander, 1st Baron Faringdon. (1850-1934) GB165-0313
Papers relating to the formation and commercial activities of the National Bank of Turkey,
especially in relation to Mesopotamian oil, and various building contracts and loans; negotiations
with the Foreign Office over the extent of the bank’s influence; correspondents include Louis
Mallet, Sir Edward Grey, Sir Arthur Nicholson, Sir Henry Babington Smith, H.P. Kingham, and S.
de Bilinski. Draft Catalogue. 50 boxes.
ORIENTAL CARPET MANUFACTURERS LTD. (1908-1986) GB165-0488
Papers relating to the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers Ltd including Articles of Association,
Contracts, Agreements, Minutes of Board Meetings, Reports and Accounts presented at Annual
General Meetings, correspondence, branch reports, printed galley proofs of book 'The Persian
Carpet' by A. Cecil Edwards, an unpublished history of the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers by Dr
Matthew Lee and a small number of photographs. Draft Catalogue. 11 boxes.
PALESTINE POLICE OLD COMRADES’ ASSOCIATION GB165-0224
Records of the Palestine Police Old Comrades’ Association, such as newsletters and membership
certificates, 1946-2000; personal papers of Palestine Policemen 1920s-1990s; mandate period
material such as police training manuals, official publications and newspapers 1920-1948; and
material compiled by Edward Horne as official historian of the Palestine Police Old Comrades’
Association. Draft Catalogue. c50 boxes.
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PALESTINE POLICE SERVICE RECORD CARDS GB165-0365
Service record cards for British and Palestinian (Jewish and Arab) Palestine Policemen who
served at the end of the Palestine Mandate including information such as places they served in and
information on training received, 1940s. Draft Catalogue. 58 bundles and 5 boxes. Please note
that the service record cards are subject to Data Protection Legislation. Access can only be
granted in line with this legislation. Further details on access are available from the
Archivist.
VATIKIOTIS, Panayiotis J. (1928-97). GB165-0292
Articles, broadcasts and correspondence relating to Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Egypt, 1980s. 2 boxes.
Uncatalogued.