History - African & Middle Eastern

Digitized archives based on ‘Confidential Print’ documents issued by the United Kingdom Foreign and Colonial Office and detailing the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the 19th century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, upwards to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Three archival collections drawn from the British Foreign Office files on the countries of South Asia from shortly before Indian partition and independence up to 1980. The archival documents are divided into the following sections: (1) Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-1964, (2) South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1965-1971 (3) Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-1980.

Full-text digital access to these historic documents.