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The collection contains documents from the British National Archives on the history of the Middle East and North Africa. These range from one-page letters or telegrams to extensive<\/span> Dispatches, investigation reports and treaty texts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The collection is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research. It arose from the need to preserve the most important papers produced by the foreign and colonial offices.<\/p>

The documents range from one-page letters or telegrams to extensive dispatches, investigation reports and treaty texts. All items labelled \"confidential print\" were printed and immediately distributed to senior officials in the Foreign Office, the Cabinet and the heads of British missions abroad.<\/p>

The archive consists of the confidential prints for the countries of the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan. Beginning with the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the 1830s, the documents trace the events of the following 150 years, including the Middle East Conference of 1921, the mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia, the partition of Palestine, the Suez Crisis of 1956 and Western foreign policy after the Suez Crisis as well as the Arab-Israeli conflict.<\/p>

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The collection contains documents from the British National Archives on the history of the Middle East and North Africa. These range from single-page letters and telegrams to extensive dispatches, investigation reports and treaty texts. About the archive Description of the provider Adam Matthew Digital The collection is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research. 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