Guides: British Foreign Relations and Colonial Documents: Middle East and North Africa

Foreign Office and Related Collections

British Documents on Foreign Affairs, Middle East and Egypt: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print
The Confidential Print comprises diplomatic dispatches and other papers that in general span from the 1830s to the 1960s. They were printed for limited circulation within the British government and were not available to the public.
British Documents on Foreign Affairs, Africa (including North Africa except Egypt): Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print, 1834-1966
The Confidential Print comprises diplomatic dispatches and other papers that in general span from the 1830s to the 1960s. They were printed for limited circulation within the British government and were not available to the public.

Middle East Online Series 1: Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970
A sampler of more than 1,000 documents providing more than 200,000 pages of documents from the National Archives UK covering Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict from the Balfour Declaration (1917) to the Black September War (1970-1971). Almost two-thirds of the documents are Foreign Office general correspondence, with the Palestine Sessional Papers and other Colonial Office documents and documents from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Cabinet Office, Admiralty, Office of the Prime Minister, and Treasury. Reproduces in searchable fulltext page images, every document in relevant PRO files with no editorial intervention.
Middle East Online Series 2: Iraq 1914-1974
A sampler of more than 3,000 documents from the National Archives UK selected to illustrate internal politics in Iraq, British colonial and foreign relations with Iraq, and Iraq in world politics during World War I through 1974. Most documents are Foreign Office general correspondence, with documents from the Foreign and Colonial Office, War Office, Colonial Office, Air Ministry, Cabinet Office, and Air Ministry included.

British Campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918
This new collection provides the opportunity to review the telegrams, correspondence, minutes, memoranda and confidential prints gathered together in the India Office Military Department on Mesopotamia.