MECA Catalogues
MECA Catalogues
Online Guides and Handlists
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Contents
Main Guide (provides a brief overview of the Archive's holdings)
- 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
- Christian Missionary Collections' Guide
- Economic Development Guide
- Education Collections' Guide
- Medicine Collections' Guide
- Oil Guide
- Palestine Police Guide
- Palestine Police Oral History Guide
- Women Collections' Guide
- Nineteenth Century Material
- Maps Collections' Guide
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
- 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 (1891-1941)
- Arab Development Society (1945-)
- Aramco - please see Mulligan, William E.
- 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
- Bailey, Sheilagh Elizabeth (b.1929)
- Baird, Nina Isabel (d.1919)
- Baker, John Slade (d.1966) Colonel, Journalist (Slade Baker Collection)
- Ball, Robert (1919-1987) Palestine Policeman
- 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)
- Barren, Minna A.
- Barrington, Peter Roland Austin (1928-2017)
- Bauer, Yehuda (b.1926) Historian
- BBC Documentary: No Plan, No Peace
- Beasley, Ina M. (1898-1994) Sudan Education Service
- Beaumont, Sir Richard Ashton (1912-2009) Knight, Diplomat and Arabist
- Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian (1868-1926) Traveller, Archaeologist and Government Official
- Bennett, Arthur L.
- Bennett, Jean Margaret (1928-2000)
- Bentwich, Norman de Mattos (1883-1971)
- Besly, Ernest Francis Withers (1891-1965) Judge
- Billingsley, Laurence (b.1927)
- Blackburn, Donald (1902-1996)
- Blenkinsop, Frederick William Geoffrey (1907-1946)
- 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
- Brebber, Alexander (1896-1991)
- Bremridge, Thomas James (b.1944)
- Brian Lapping Associates Ltd (Fifty Years War Collection)
- British Middle East Forces (Parade Collection)
- British Palestine Police Association
- British Syrian Schools Association
- Broadhurst, Ronald Joseph Callender (1906-1976)
- Brodie, Donald Haig (1917-1981) Palestine Policeman
- Brown, David Oliver (b.1926)
- Brown, Eden Tatton- (1877-1961), Customs Administrator
- Brunton, Chisholm Dunbar (b.1887) Soldier, Major.
- Bryce, James (1838-1922) Viscount
- Buccianti, Alexandro (b.c1772)
- Bullard, Sir Reader William (1885-1976) Knight Diplomat
- Burt, John (b.1925)
- Butler, Michael Paul (b.1940)
- Cairo Scientific Society (1898-1951)
- Cannings, Victor Henry Douglas (1919-2016) 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
- Chirol, Sir Ignatius Valentine (1852-1929)
- Clark, Fred (1911-1939) Palestine Policeman
- Cleaver, Percy (1915-1998) Policeman
- Clive, Nigel David (1917-2001)
- Coate, Winifred A. (1893-1977)
- Coghill, Sir Marmaduke Nevill Patrick Somerville (1896-1981) Baronet
- Collard, Jack M
- Cooper, Derek (1912-2007) and Cooper, Pamela (1910-2006)
- Content Productions Ltd
- Cooke, Sir John Fletcher- (1911-1989) Knight
- Coppin, David Midleton (b.1939)
- Corkill, Norman (1898-1966)
- Cornwallis, Sir Kinahan (1883-1959)
- Cox, Sir Percy Zachariah (1864-1937) Knight, Major General, Colonial Administrator and Diplomat
- Cramer-Roberts Collection - please see Roberts, Frank Cramer- (d.1943), Engineer
- Crossman, Richard Howard Stafford (1907-1974)
- Crowdy, J.D. (d.1920) Soldier
- Cromer Collection - please see Baring, Evelyn (1841-1917) 1st Earl of Cromer
- Crowe, Dr Sibyl Eyre (1908-1993) Academic
- Cunningham, Sir Alan Gordon (1887-1983) Knight, General
- Dale, Thomas
- Deane-Drummond Collection - please see Drummond, Antony John Deane- (b.1917)
- Deedes, Brigadier-General Sir Wyndham Henry (1883-1956) Army Officer, Civil Administrator, Zionist and Social Worker
- Dickson, Arthur G.M.
- 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)
- Digby - see Mezrab, Jane Elizabeth Digby El (1807-1881)
- Dowson, Sir Ernest MacLeod (1876-1950) Knight
- Drummond, Antony John Deane- (b.1917)
- Edenborough, Richard Oakley Montagu (1906-1995)
- Edmonds Cecil John (1889-1979) Diplomat
- Edwards, Francis Millward (1886-1976)
- Edwards, Francis William (b.1931) (Frank Edwards Collection)
- Edwards, Stephen Herbert St George (1912-1997) Palestine Policeman
- Elphinston, William Graham (1886-1952) Colonel
- Emery, Susanna Pearce (1896-1986) Teacher
- Emery, Victor (b.1924)
- Ensor, Andrew Fisher (1918-2008)
- Everett, Sir William (1844-1908) Knight, Colonel, Diplomat
- Ewers, Gordon Etrick (1924-2000) Palestine Policeman
- Faraday, John Alexander Mulloy (1899-1986) Soldier and Police Officer
- Farnall, Harry de la Rosa Burrard (1852-1929)
- Farrell, Wilfrid Jerome (1882-1960)
- Felgate, Frederick Albert (1915-1976) British Mandate Palestine Policeman.
- Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs - please see Brian Lapping Associates Ltd
- Fletcher-Cooke Collection - please see Cooke, Sir John Fletcher- (1911-1989) Knight
- Flinn, Walter Leonard (1883-1969)
- Forster, Elliot David (b.1905) Doctor
- Foster-Turner Collection - please see Turner, Frederick Wentworth Foster- (1893-1989)
- Frankfurter, Felix (1882-1965)
- Fraser, Thomas Howden (d.1975)
- Fraser, William Archibald Kenneth (1886-1969) Major-General
- 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
- Garstang, John (1876-1956) Professor, Archaeologist
- Gibbs, Brian Conaway (1912-1946)
- Giesler, Rodney William Aldous (1931-2016)
- Giles, Peter (1929-2014) British Mandate Palestine Policeman
- 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
- Grafftey-Smith - please see Smith, Sir Laurence Barton Grafftey- (1892-1989) Knight
- Granada Television End of Empire
- Graves, Richard Massie (1880-1960)
- Grenfell, Francis Wallace (1841-1925) 1st Baron Grenfell, Field Marshall
- Gurney, Betty (d.1981) Missionary
- Gurney, Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworth (1898-1951) Knight, High Commissioner Colonial Service
- Hallward, Cecil Marsham
- Hamilton, Robert Ernest (1925-2006) Palestine Policeman
- Hanson, Henry James (1838-1935)
- Harrison, Helena Austen (c.1895-1986)
- Hawley, Sir Donald Frederick (b.1921) Knight
- Hay, Sir William Rupert (1893-1962) Knight, Lieutenant Colonel Indian Administrator
- Haycraft, Sir Thomas Wagstaffe (1858-1936) Barrister, Chief Justice, Knight
- Hayter, Sir William Goodenough (1869-1924)
- 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
- Holdsworth, Dick (Leslie Leonard David) 1913-1988
- Holmes, Richard J (1928-1977)
- Holt, Sir Vyvyan (1896-1960)
- Hope Gill Collection - please see Gill, Cecil Gervase Hope (1894-1984) Diplomat (Hope Gill Collection)
- Hornsby, Sir Bertram (d.1943) Knight, Egyptian Civil Servant
- Hubbard, Laurence Arthur (b.1936) Reverend
- Hunt, John (b.1931) Soldier
- Hutson, George Chrystal (1908-1967)
- Ingrams, William Harold (1897-1973) Colonial Administrator, Author
- Jackli, R
- Jamali, Mohammed Fadhel (1903-1997) Politician
- Jerusalem and East Mission
- Jerusalem Photograph Album Collection
- Johns, Cedric Norman (1904-1992)
- Jones, Frank William
- Keating, Rex (1910-2005) Palestine Broadcasting Service
- Kent, Derek Frederick John (b.1925)
- Keown-Boyd, Sir Alexander William (1884-1954)
- Kerr, William (1930-2012) Lieutenant Colonel
- Kessler, Leopold (1864-1944)
- Kirby, Trevor Roland (1923-2015) Palestine Policeman
- Knapp, Wilfrid Francis (1924-2011) Academic
- Lamond, Alex
- Lampson, Sir Miles Wedderburn, 1st Baron Killearn (1880-1964)
- Large, Robert Walter Canning
- Leachman, Gerard Evelyn (1880-1920) Soldier
- Le Ray Collection - please see Ray, Hugh Granville Le (b. 1895)
- Libyan Newspapers 1969 Coup
- Lienhardt, Peter Arnold (1928-1986) Anthropologist
- Linaker, Christopher (b.1945) Soldier
- Lloyd - Phillips Collection - please see Phillips, Ivan Lloyd (1910-1984)
- Lomas, Ernest Gabriel (1878-1947) Diplomat
- Longrigg, Stephen Hemsley (1893-1979) Brigadier
- 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
- MacGillivray, Sir Donald (1906-1966) Knight, Colonial Administrator
- MacGuffie, Alexander (b.c1888)
- 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
- Meinertzhagen, Richard (1878-1967) Soldier
- Melville, Robert Kenneth (b.1918) Colonel
- Mezrab, Jane Elizabeth Digby El (1807-1881)
- Middle East Command Pamphlet
- Middle East Development Division (1946-1983)
- Middle East Supply Centre (1941-1945)
- Monckton, Reginald Francis Percy (1896-1975) Soldier, Major
- Monroe, Elizabeth (1905-1986) Journalist, Academic
- Morgan, Dorothy Blanche (b.1906) Teacher
- Philip Morris Collection - please see British Mandate Palestine Police (1920-1948)
- Morrison, Daniel Kerr (1911-1994) Policeman
- Morton, Desmond (1927-2005)
- Mulligan, William E. (1918-1992)
- Murray, John (1912-1986)
- Murly-Gotto Collection - please see Gotto, Anthony Murly- (b.1942)
- Mylrea, C. Stanley G. (1876-1952) Physician
- Nairn Transport Company, Beirut
- Nalder, Leonard Fielding (1888-1958) Colonial Governor
- Nelson, Valerie see Robinson, Valerie Winifred (b.1934)
- Nicholson, William Ewart (1890-1983)
- Norman, Dorothy Aston (1907-c1993)
- Norton, Sir Clifford John (1891-1990) Knight
- Nott, Lewis Herbert William (1869-1964)
- Palestine and Lebanon Nurses Mission
- Parade Collection - please see British Middle East Forces
- Parlby, Joshua (1889-1975) Colonial Financial Administrator
- Partington, Frank (b.1925)
- Partridge, Austin Roger (1927-2020)
- Paxton, Julian F.E. (b.1937)
- Plant, Samuel Cornell (c.1860-1921) Captain
- Perkins, William Jackson (c1892-1969)
- Perowne, Stewart Henry (1901-1989) orientalist and historian
- Peyton, William Durham (1917-1991)
- 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)
- Ramirez, Rosalind Cecilia (1912-1999) Teacher and Governess
- Rapp, Sir Thomas Cecil (1893-1984) Knight, Diplomat
- Ray, Hugh Granville Le (b. 1895) (Le Ray Collection)
- Reid Collection - please see Bennett, Jean Margaret
- Renton, James Malcolm Leslie (1898-1972) Solider, Major-General
- Richards, Herbert Arthur (1866-1957)
- Rice, Harry Patrick (1886-1973)
- Roberts, Frank Cramer- (d.1943), Engineer
- Roberts, William Hamish (b.1927)
- Robinson, Valerie Winifred (b.1934)
- Rosser, Kevin (b.1970)
- Rowley, Noel (b.1926)
- 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
- Sadleir, Captain George Forster (1789-1859)
- Salmon, Frederick John (1882-1964)
- Saunders, Alan (1886-1964) Colonial Policeman
- Searle, David Courtis (b.1933)
- Searle, Pauline (1922-2011)
- Schlein
- Scholes, Carpenter Civil Engineer
- Scrivener, Rupert Frederick (1890-1951) Chief Engineer of Palestine Railways and Ports
- Scott, Frank Montgomery (1892-1974)
- Shepherd, Sir Francis Michie (1892-1962) Knight, Diplomat
- Shlaim, Avi (b. 1945) Political scientist and historian
- Sichel, Peter (b.1946)
- 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)
- Smith, Sir Laurence Barton Grafftey- (1892-1989) Knight
- Spears, Sir Edward Louis (1886-1974) Knight, Major General, Politician and Author
- Spry, Sir John Farley (1910-1999) Knight
- Stainton, Benjamin (1856-1927)
- Steinfeld, Rebecca: Fertility Policy in Israel
- Stewart, William David (b. 1928) Palestine Policeman
- Strange, Robin R (d.1997)
- Sultan's Armed Forces Association
- Sweeney, Daniel (b.1945) Soldier
- Sykes, Herbert Rushton (1870-1952) Engineer
- Sykes, Edward Molesworth (1910-1992)
- Sykes, Sir Mark 6th Baronet (1879-1919)
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Sykes, Sir Percy Molesworth (1867-1945) Knight Lieutenant Colonel Colonial Administrator
- Tassell, Robert (1878-1867 or 1874)
- 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
- Thomas, Noel Edward Ivor (1901-1984) Teacher, Club Secretary and Scout Master
- Tibawi, Abdul-Latif (b.1910)
- 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
- Waddington, James Hilary Sheffield (1903-1989) Architect Inspector, Archaeologist
- Wade, Harry Llewellyn (1908-1983)
- Wallas, Graham (Amos Collection)
- Walmsley, Malcolm Thomas (b.1927)
- Ward, Richard Joseph (b.1921) Economist
- Warton, Keith (1940-2010) Soldier
- 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
- White, 'Chalky' Harold (1922-1946) Palestine Policeman
- Whitehouse Collection - please see Abdulmecid II (1868-1944) Last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire
- Williams, Vivian Embassy Worker Yemen
- Williamson, Graham Frank (b.1926)
- Wilson, Hilda Mary (1904-1990) School teacher
- Wilson, Monica (b.1920) radio broadcaster, journalist and civil servant
- Wilson, Thomas Woodrow (1856-1924) President United States
- Wingate, Sir Ronald Evelyn Leslie (1889-1978) Baronet, Civil Servant and Author
- Wolseley, Garnet Joseph (1833-1913) 1st Viscount Wolseley, General
- Wood, Barbara (b. 1926)
- Wood, Sir Richard (1806-1900) Knight Diplomat
- Wright, Sir Denis (1911-2005) Knight
- Yale, William (1887-1975)
- Young, Sir Hubert (1885-1950) Knight, Soldier and Administrator
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