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Map of the Arabian Peninsula
The map is based on a 19th century commercially produced British map of Arabia (likely circa 1870 or earlier). The slide has been altered by painting over the areas showing Africa, Iran, and the Levant. The area left shows Arabia and the British mandate in Iraq though it excludes British Mandatory P ...
Photographs taken in Afghanistan during the campaigns of 1878-1879 and 1879-1890
Photograph album documenting the British campaigns in Afghanistan during the so-called Great Game. Most of the photographs portray British troops, officers, camps, views of cities, ruins, pieces of artillery, antiquities, Buddha statues, and landscapes. Most of the photographs were taken by professi ...
Portrait of a tribesman
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
Abdullah bin Hussein
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 ...
Faisal bin Hussein
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. He was King of Syria from 1918-1920 and later King of Iraq from 1921 to 19 ...
Faisal bin Hussein
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. He was King of Syria from 1918-1920 and later King of Iraq from 1921 to 19 ...
Faisal bin Hussein
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. He was King of Syria from 1918-1920 and later King of Iraq from 1921 to 19 ...
St. John Philby
Together with T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, Sergeant John Philby was a key figure in the Arab Revolt. Like Lawrence and Bell, he was, first and foremost, an Arabicist and an explorer, best known for his works Heart of Arabia (1922) and The Empty Quarter (1932). In 1917, Philby arrived in al-Zuba ...
Sheikh Ibrahim of al-Zubayr
Sheikh Ibrahim of al-Zubayr participated in organizing the Arab Revolt, assisting Sergeant John Philby in bringing together the leading tribal chiefs. In Heart of Arabia, Philby states that '[...] the desert alliance in this sector [i.e., Mesopotamia] was formally completed with the inclusion of Ibr ...
Watercolour and memorabilia sketchbooks on British Egypt and Sudan
Sketchbooks illustrate travels and excursions done in Egypt and Sudan by the British lady Florence Attwood Mathews, the second daughter of British writer and doctor James John Garth Wilkinson (1812 – 1899). The contents of the sketchbooks stretch over the period 1898–1916, with particular emphas ...