Middle East Centre Archive

Main Guide

Guide to the Middle East Centre Archive
This provides an alphabetical overview of our holdings.

Country Guides

The following country guides have been compiled from the main guide but only collections with material relating to the specific country or geographical area have been included.

• Afghanistan
• Egypt
• Gulf [Persian Gulf, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar]
• Iran/Persia
• Iraq/Mesopotamia
• Israel/Palestine
• Jordan/Transjordan
• Lebanon
• Libya/Cyrenaica
• North Africa [Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia]
• Oman
• Saudi Arabia
• Sudan
• Syria
• Yemen/Aden/South Arabia

Subject/Time period and Map Guides

• Arab Revolt Palestine 1936-1939 Collections' Guide
• British Mandate Palestine Police
• Christian Missionary Collections' Guide
• Education Collections' Guide
• Women Collections' Guide
• Nineteenth Century Material
• Maps Collections' Guide

MECA Handlists

The MECA Handlists represent our most detailed catalogues. The following list is arranged by the Name of the Creator of the collection.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S TUV W XYZ

A

• Abdülmecid II (1868-1944) Last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (Whitehouse Collection)
• Adamson, Richard Colonial Policeman
• Addison, Herbert
• Allard, William (b.1889)
• Allen, Geoffrey Francis (1902-1982) Anglican Bishop
• Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman (1861-1936) 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo, Field Marshal
• Amos Collection - please see Wallas, Graham
• Amzalak, Mayer H. and Amzalak, J.B.
• Ancketill, Matthew
• Anderson, Margaret Grace (b.1931)
• Antonius, George (1892-1941)
• Arab Development Society (1945-)
• Archibald, S G (fl 1912-1920) Lawyer
• Ardagh, Sir John (1840-1907) Knight, Major General, Diplomat
• Aref, Aref, El- (1892-1973)
• Armitage, Henry St John Basil (1924-2004)
• Arthur, Sir Geoffrey (1920-1984) Knight, Diplomat
• Ashley, Edward (1934-2001) Soldier

  B

• Baird, Nina Isabel (d.1919)
• Baker, John Slade (d.1966) Colonel, Journalist (Slade Baker Collection)
• Ball, Royston Arthur (b.1928)
• Barbour, Nevill (1895-1974)
• Baring, Evelyn (1841-1917) 1st Earl of Cromer, statesman and Baring, Rowland Thomas (1877-1953) 2nd Earl of Cromer (Cromer Collection)
• Beasley, Ina M. (1898-1994) Sudan Education Service
• BBC Documentary: No Plan, No Peace
• Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian (1868-1926) Traveller, Archaeologist and Government Official
• Bennet, Arthur L.
• Billingsley, Laurence (b.1927)
• Blackburn, Donald (1902-1996)
• Brebber, Alexander (1896-1991)
• Brian Lapping Associates Ltd
• Brown, Eden Tatton- (1877-1961), Customs Administrator
• Bullard, Sir Reader William (1885-1976) Knight Diplomat
• Boustead, Sir John Edmund Hugh (1895-1980) Knight Colonel Colonial Administrator
• Bowen, Harold C.
• Bowman, Humphrey Ernest (1879-1965) Director of Education Colonial Service
• Boyle, Harry (1863-1937) Diplomat
• British Mandate Palestine Police (1920-1948)
• British Middle East Forces (Parade Collection)
• British Syrian Schools Association
• Brown, David Oliver (b.1926)
• Alexandro, Buccianti (b.c1772)
• Burt, John (b.1925)

  C

• Cairo Scientific Society (1898-1951)
• Cannings, Victor Henry Douglas (b.1919) Palestine Policeman
• Card, John Glenville (b.1926) Palestine Policeman
• Chancellor, Sir John Robert (1870-1952) Knight Colonial Administrator
• Chehab, Farid (1908-1985)
• Clayton, Sir Iltyd Nicholl (1886-1955) Knight, Brigadier
• Cheetham, Sir Milne (1869-1938) Knight
• Cleaver, Percy (1915-1998) Policeman
• Coghill, Sir Marmaduke Nevill Patrick Somerville (1896-1981) Baronet
• Collard, Jack M
• Cooper, Derek (1912-2007) and Cooper, Pamela (1910-2006)
• Content Productions Ltd
• Corkill, Norman (1898-1966)
• Cox, Sir Percy Zachariah (1864-1937) Knight, Major General, Colonial Administrator and Diplomat
• Cramer-Roberts Collection - please see Roberts, Frank Cramer- (d.1943), Engineer
• Crowdy, J.D. (d.1920) Soldier
• Cromer Collection - please see Baring, Evelyn (1841-1917) 1st Earl of Cromer
• Cunningham, Sir Alan Gordon (1887-1983) Knight, General

  D

• Deane-Drummond Collection - please see Drummond, Antony John Deane- (b.1917)
• Dickson, John (1847-1906) Consul at Damascus and Jerusalem
• Dickson, Harold Richard Patrick (1881-1959) Lieutenant Colonel Colonial Administrator
• Dickson, Dame Violet Penelope (1896-1991)
• Drummond, Antony John Deane- (b.1917)

  E

• Edmonds Cecil John (1889-1979) Diplomat
• Edwards, Francis M. (b.1886) (Sadlier Collection)
• Edwards, Francis William (b.1931)
• Elphinston, William Graham (1886-1952) Colonel
• Emery, Susanna Pearce (1896-1986) Teacher
• Emery, Victor (b.1924)
• Everett, Sir William (1844-1908) Knight, Colonel, Diplomat

  F

• Faraday, John Alexander Mulloy (1899-1986) Soldier and Police Officer
• Felgate, Frederick Albert (1915-1976) British Mandate Palestine Policeman.
• Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs - please see Brian Lapping Associates Ltd
• Flinn, Walter Leonard (1883-1969)
• Foster-Turner Collection - please see Turner, Frederick Wentworth Foster- (1893-1989)
• Fraser-Tytler Collection - please see Tytler, Sir William Kerr Fraser- (1886-1963) Knight Minister to Afghanistan
• Furness, Sir Robert Allason (1883-1954) Knight, Egyptian Civil Servant

  G

• Gibbs, Brian Conaway (1912-1946)
• Giesler, Rodney William Aldous (b.1931)
• Gill, Cecil Gervase Hope (1894-1984) Diplomat
• Gotto, Anthony Murly- (b.1942) (Murly Gotto Collection)
• Gorst, Sir John Eldon (1861-1911) Knight, Consul General in Egypt
• Gould, Lorraine Macdonald (1898-1935)
• Graham, John David Carew (b.1923) Major General
• Graves, Richard Massie (1880-1960)
• Grenfell, Francis Wallace (1841-1925) 1st Baron Grenfell, Field Marshall
• Gurney, Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworth (1898-1951) Knight, High Commissioner Colonial Service

  H

• Hallward, Cecil Marsham
• Hamilton, Robert Ernest (1925-2006) Palestine Policeman
• Hanson, Henry James (1838-1935)
• Hawley, Sir Donald Frederick (b.1921) Knight
• Hay, Sir William Rupert (1893-1962) Knight, Lieutenant Colonel Indian Administrator
• Hazelden, John Winston (b.1942)
• Hepworth, Charles (b.1943)
• Herbert, Mervyn Robert Howard Molyneux (1882-1929) Diplomat
• Hogarth, David George (1862-1927) Arab Historian and Archaeologist
• Holmes, Richard J (1928-1977)
• Hope Gill Collection - please see Gill, Cecil Gervase Hope (1894-1984) Diplomat (Hope Gill Collection)
• Hunt, John (b.1931) Soldier

  I

• Ingrams, William Harold (1897-1973) Colonial Administrator, Author

  J

• Jackli, R
• Jamali, Mohammed Fadhel (1903-1997) Politician
• Jerusalem and East Mission
• Jerusalem Photograph Album Collection
• Jones, Frank William (b.1928) Palestine Policeman

  K

• Keating, Rex (1910-2005) Palestine Broadcasting Service
• Kent, Derek Frederick John (b.1925)
• Knapp, Wilfrid Francis (1924-2011) Academic

  L

• Lampson, Sir Miles Wedderburn, 1st Baron Killearn (1880-1964)
• Leachman, Gerard Evelyn (1880-1920) Soldier
• Le Ray Collection - please see Ray, Hugh Granville Le (b. 1895)
• Lienhardt, Peter Arnold (1928-1986) Anthropologist
• Lloyd - Phillips Collection - please see Phillips, Ivan Lloyd (1910-1984)
• Lotbinière, Helen Ruth Mildred Joly de (1912-1953)
• Loraine, Sir Percy Lyham (1880-1961) Baronet
• Eric, Lowe (b.1928)
• Lucas, Ivor (b.1927) Diplomat
• Luke, Sir Harry Charles (1884-1969) Knight, Colonial Governor

  M

• MacGillivray, Sir Donald (1906-1966) Knight, Colonial Administrator
• MacMichael, Sir Harold (1882-1969) Knight
• Mance, Sir Henry Osborne (1875-1966) Knight, Brigadier-General
• Mayers, Norman (1895-1986)
• McKeown, J.H.
• Mellor, Aubrey Rollo Ibbetson (1892-1977)
• McArthur, Arthur (b.1913)
• McNeil, Angus John (1874-1950) Brigadier General
• Middle East Development Division (1946-1983)
• Morgan, Dorothy Blanche (b.1906) Teacher
• Philip Morris Collection - please see British Mandate Palestine Police (1920-1948)
• Morton, Desmond (1927-2005)
• Murray, John (1912-1986)
• Murly-Gotto Collection - please see Gotto, Anthony Murly- (b.1942)

  N

• Nairn Transport Company, Beirut
• Nalder, Leonard Fielding (1888-1958) Colonial Governor

  O

  P

• Palestine and Lebanon Nurses Mission
• Parade Collection - please see British Middle East Forces
• Partington, Frank (b.1925)
• Paxton, Julian F.E. (b.1937)
• Perkins, William Jackson (c1892-1969)
• Perowne, Stewart Henry (1901-1989) orientalist and historian
• Philby, Harry St John Bridger (1885-1960) Explorer and Orientalist
• Phillips, Ivan Lloyd (1910-1984) (Lloyd Philips Collection)
• Pirie, Charles (b.1943)
• Popham, Reginald Philip (1900-1999)
• Poole, John (1912-1977) Palestine Policeman
• Price, Morgan Philips (1885-1972)

  Q

  R

• Ramirez, Rosalind Cecilia (1912-1999) Teacher and Governess
• Ray, Hugh Granville Le (b. 1895) (Le Ray Collection)
• Roberts, Frank Cramer- (d.1943), Engineer
• Roberts, William Hamish (b.1927)
• Rosser, Kevin (b.1970)
• Russell, Sir Thomas Wentworth (1879-1954) Knight, Commandant of Cairo Police 'Russell Pasha'
• Russell, Francis Mark (1927-2007) Palestine Policeman
• Ryan, Sir Andrew (1895-1958) Knight, Diplomat

  S

• Sadlier Collection - please see Edwards, Francis M. (b.1886)
• Saunders, Alan (1886-1964) Colonial Policeman
• Searle, Pauline (b.1922)
• Scholes, Carpenter Civil Engineer
• Scrivener, Rupert Frederick (1890-1951) Chief Engineer of Palestine Railways and Ports
• Shepherd, Sir Francis Michie (1892-1962) Knight, Diplomat
• Shlaim, Avi (b. 1945) Political scientist and historian
• Sims, Les (b.1926)
• Sinderson, Sir Harry Chapman (1891-1974) Knight, Physician
• Skeet, Ian (b.1928)
• Slade-Baker Collection - please see Baker, John Slade (d.1966) Colonel, Journalist
• Smiley, David (b.1916)
• Smith, Arthur Lionel Forster (1880-1972) Educationalist
• Smith, John Allan (1894-1966)
• Spears, Sir Edward Louis (1886-1974) Knight, Major General, Politician and Author
• Spry, Sir John Farley (1910-1999) Knight
• Stainton, Benjamin (1856-1927)
• Strange, Robin R (d.1997)
• Sultan’s Armed Forces Association
• Sykes, Herbert Rushton (1870-1952) Engineer
• Sykes, Edward Molesworth (1910-1992)
• Sykes, Sir Mark 6th Baronet (1879-1919)

  TUV

• Tegart, Sir Charles Augustus (1881-1946) Knight, Indian Police Officer
• Tatton-Brown, Eden see Brown, Eden Tatton- (1877-1961), Customs Administrator
• Thames Television Palestine Series
• The Star Newspaper
• Thesiger, Wilfred (1910-2003) Knight, Diplomat, Author and Traveller
• Turner, Frederick Wentworth Foster- (1893-1989)
• Tweedy, Owen Meredith (1888-1960) Journalist and Civil Servant
• Tytler, Sir William Kerr Fraser- (1886-1963) Knight Minister to Afghanistan

  W

• Waddington, Sir James Hilary Sheffield (1903-1989) Knight, Architect Inspector, Archaeologist
• Wallas, Graham (Amos Collection)
• Walmsley, Malcolm Thomas (b.1927)
• Ward, Richard Joseph (b.1921) Economist
• Waterfield, Gordon (1903-1987)
• Watt, Donald Cameron (b.1928)
• Webb, Cecil Richard (1887-1974)
• Wells, Edward (b.1924) Palestine Policeman
• Wheeler, Geoffrey Edleston (1897-1990) Indian Army Officer
• Wheeler, Percy D'Erf (1861-1944) Missionary and Physician
• Whitehouse Collection - please see Abdulmecid II (1868-1944) Last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire
• Wilson, H.M. (d. c1992) School teacher
• Wingate, Sir Ronald Evelyn Leslie (1889-1978) Baronet, Civil Servant and Author
• Wood, Barbara (b. 1926)
• Wood, Sir Richard (1806-1900) Knight Diplomat

  XYZ

• Yale, William (1887-1975)
• Young, Sir Hubert (1885-1950) Knight, Soldier and Administrator

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