Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 153., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0053, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953363, BIB-ID: 2346520

Title from item; date devised by Library staff. The photograph is signed with blind stamp, numbered (n.2) and captioned on the negative. Pencil caption on the verso of the print., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0001-0001, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i23900519, BIB-ID: 2553516

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 154., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0054, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953430, BIB-ID: 2346521

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 155., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0055, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953442, BIB-ID: 2346522

In this picture the subject is posing for the photographer, looking into the camera., Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 142., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0042, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2195110x, BIB-ID: 2346397

The woman in the photograph could be Gertrude Bell. Soon after obtaining her degree in 1898 she travelled many times in Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula and published her account of those experiences in numerous books. After the eruption of World War I, she was recruited by British Intelligenc ...

Portait of Abdullah bin Hussein, commander of the Arab Eastern Army. He played a key role in the guerrilla revolt, in particular because of the besiege of Taif and Medina and of the sabotage of the Hejaz Railway. He was the ruling Emir of Transjordan under the British Mandate from 1921 to 1946, when ...

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 164., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0064, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953739, BIB-ID: 2346539

The Shammar are a tribal confederation made up of three main branches: the Abdah, the Aslam, and the Zoba. Dhari ibn Tawala was the chief of the Aslam Shammar, a group that also nowadays counts most of his members between Arabia and Iraq. He met John Philby in November 2017, in Zubayr, where the lea ...

Portait of Faisal bin Hussein, the commander of the Arab Northern Army during the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. He spent most of the war in Hejaz and he enjoyed a particularly close relationship with T. E. Lawrence, as described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He was King of Syria from 1918-19 ...

Portait of Faisal bin Hussein, the commander of the Arab Northern Army during the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. He spent most of the war in Hejaz and he enjoyed a particularly close relationship with T. E. Lawrence, as described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He was King of Syria from 1918-19 ...