1926-1933
Notes on the history, language and ethnography of Darfur, including:

1932 Feb 10
Report by P.J.S. on the political aspects of the Bir Natrun reconnaissance

1933 Jan 18
Report on Zalingei Amirate administration, by P.J.S.

1933 Feb 28
Notes by P.J.S. on the use of the Bagnold sun compass for plotting roads in Zalingei District, with related correspondence from S.L. Milligan, Director of Surveys and G.T. Whitehouse, Inspector of Surveys

[n.d.]
Family tree showing the descendants of Sultan Muhammad al Fadl `Abd al-Rahman, sultan of Darfur and grandfather of `Ali Dinar

[n.d.]
Plan of the palace of Sultan Muhammad al-Fadl `Abd al-Rahman at El Fasher

[n.d.]
Plan of Sultan `Ali Dinar's palace and grounds at El Fasher (2 copies)
Size: 37 x 24 cm

[n.d.]
Key to the plan above of `Ali Dinar's palace and grounds with chronological table of events in Darfur

[n.d.]
Note by A.J. Arkell on a case of witchcraft tried by him in Dar Erenga

[c. 1937]
Paper on economic policy for the Sudan, first and second drafts

1940 Jul 9-1941 Jan 16
Official correspondence between P.J.S. at Tindelai and Aroma and province staff at Sinkat during the Italian occupation of Kassala:

1940 Aug 2 - Nov 1
Child's guide to the Gash by P.J.S. (original with amended version)

1940 Aug 12 - 15
Note by the Governor-General on the protection of the native population during current hostilities, with explanatory letter from B. Kennedy-Cooke to P.J.S.

1940 Aug 18
Memorandum by P.J.S. at Tindelai re the loss of government money during the evacuation of Kassala

1940 Sep 5
Note on the arrival of reinforcements in Kassala District

1940 Sep 8
Note on the Bija and Red Sea Districts of Kassala by B. Kennedy Cooke, Governor (2nd edition)

1940 Sep 21
Note by P.J.S. on “The local authority at war”

1940 Sep 22 - Nov 24
Telegrams re the use of railway trolleys and the transfer of police from Aroma

1940 Sep 24
List of points raised with B. Kennedy Cooke at Tindelai

1940 Oct 15 and n.d.
Notes on Atbara administration

1940 Oct 30
Note by B. Kennedy Cooke, Governor Kassala on Gash area plans, including instructions on the movement and control of local population, the formation of Frostyforce, evacuation plans, etc

1940 Nov 13
Note by D.C. Cumming on the duties of a security officer in the Southern district

1940 Nov 20
Evacuation orders for Gash District

1940 Nov 24
Memorandum on the organisation of the police force into province police, static guards and gendarmerie

1940 Nov 25
Note by B. Kennedy Cooke of preliminary arrangements for the reoccupation of Kassala

1940 Dec 4
List by P.J.S. of points raised by the note above (730/3/48 49)

1940 Nov 26
Note on the reoccupation of Kassala by E.C. Haselden

1940 Nov 30, Dec 20
Memoranda by B. Kennedy-Cooke on the re occupation of Kassala

1940 Dec 7
Memorandum by P.J.S on public security in the Gash area

1940 Dec 26
Memorandum from the Colonel Commanding Gazelle re the administration of Frostyforce

1940 Dec
Note on population control in areas of military operations

1941 Jan 11
Note of alterations to evacuation orders above (730/3/41-46)

1941 Jan 2
Memorandum on the hostile aircraft warning system

1941
Gazelle intelligence summary no.9 for the period ending 2 Jan 1941

1941 Jan 16
Memorandum by B. Kennedy Cooke re stores required at Aroma in the event of a re occupation of Kassala

1941 Jan 18
Note of arrangements for the re-occupation of Kassala

1941 Feb 27
Copy of a document captured from the Italians on their failure to infiltrate the area north of Kassala due to the actions of Frostyforce, with covering letter from D. Newbold, Civil Secretary

[n.d.]
“A history of the Beja tribes of the Sudan”, by P.J.S. (ts.)

1944 - 1947
Papers re Italian land settlement in Tripolitania:

1948 Mar 5 - 8
Memoranda from H.E. Bannister, Administrative Officer, to P.J.S. re the terms under which settlements were made by ENTE and I.N.P.S.

1957 Sep 9 - 1959 Dec 29
Personal correspondence from the Fabian Colonial Bureau concerning P.J.S.' review of The labour movement in the Sudan 1946-55 by Saad el Din Fawzi and from H. Maule re his research into the campaigns of Sir Frank Messervy

1948 Oct 15
Lecture by P.J.S. on “Recent developments in Libya” given to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Middle East Group

1934 Jan
“The Libyan Desert again”, an account by P.J.S. of an airborne reconnaissance trip to Bir Natrun and Merga Oases (Ts. copy with ms. draft)

“The Mrs. Grey”, an account by P.J.S. of a hunting trip near Bor in search of a Nile lechwe (known also as a Mrs. Grey). Two ts. copies with slight alterations in the second copy

“Round the bend”, parts 1 and 2, an account by P.J.S. of his involvement in hunting, both as a child and during his years in the Sudan

“Joe Snooks remembers. Travelling in the desert” ... and “Travelling in the south”

“Locusts”, an account of locust control measures in the Sudan

“Hyenas laugh in Grosvenor Square”, a description of P.J.S.' house in Mongalla

1957
Article on Libya by P.J.S. intended as a section in Survey of North West Africa edited by N. Barbour for Chatham House. The article covers the geography and history of Libya up to independence and government, health, education, agriculture, industry, justice, etc. (Draft copy included)

1956 - 1958
Papers relating to the article above including synopsis (730/6/103-106) and correspondence between P.J.S. and the editor N. Barbour and with other friends and former colleagues who provided information, statistics, etc. on Libya since independence

1928 - 1932
The unfinished memoirs of P.J.S. covering service as A.D.C. in Mongalla and Darfur

1936 Apr 12
Xerox copy of English Fur vocabulary by P.J.S., with amendments by G.E. Wickens, 17 Jul 1968

1947-1948
History of Tripolitania by P.J. and A.M. Sandison (ts.). Section I deals with the history of Tripolitania from 700 B.C. to 1930 A.D. Section II deals with the development of modern Tripolitania, 1922 - 1940

“Consul Warrington, Master of Tripoli”, an account of the Consul generalship of Colonel Hanmer Warrington, 1814 - c.1846, (author unknown), with notes on his military career and family

1934 - 1936
Photographs of the Sudan and Tunis:

Photographs of Libya, including one of the Governor-General, Maresciallo Balbo, originally enclosed in a book

Newspaper photograph of the ruins of a temple from Leptis Magna in Tripolitania, erected at Virginia Water in 1746

Original cinefilms taken by P.J.S. in the Sudan and Kenya during the 1930s and 1940s. Most of the films are unidentified but they include scenes shot in Khartoum, Mongalla, Equatoria and Kassala. The quality is generally fairly poor.

1935 - 1936
Khartoum zoo including birds and giraffe; saqiyah at edge of Nile; steamer at Shambe; looking for game through binoculars; Juba Dec 1935; men sawing wood, cutting wood and carrying bundles of grass; P.J.S.'s new house; duck shoot, 1936; pygmy elephants on bank by Nile steamer; loading elephants on to steamer; carrying bananas on to steamer
8mm, black and white, 5 minutes

Digital copy

[n.d. c. 1929 - 1935]
Crossing the Wadi Azum in the rains with horses and camels; Goraan camel saddle; unsaddling camel; horse jumping competition at El Fasher; camel race; gymkhana and polo; hearing a legal case, sitting under a tree; French doctor's boat at Adré; children drawing water; men and women spinning thread and weaving; Sudanese children with home-made carts; view from moving car in Rhodes; Acropolis; Corinth canal
8mm, black and white, 10 minutes

Digital copy

[n.d. ca. 1929 - 1935]
El Obeid - Fasher road; lorry stuck in sand; mule trekking to Zalingei; loading-up; Fur band of musicians; horses at Geneina; watering horses; baby giraffe; cheetah cubs; Arab girls; wild leopard; suq at Geneina; British official with horse
8mm, black and white, 5½ minutes

Digital copy

[ca. 1941]
Kassala. Bija tribesmen in mock fights; camel with `utfah ; camel race; large herd of cattle
8mm, black and white, 3 minutes

Digital copy

[ca. 1938]
Imatong Mountains and Kenya. British family on picnic; children playing in garden and on swing
8mm, black and white, 3½ minutes

Digital copy

[ca. 1937]
Garden scenes; British children with toy car; picnic in garden; open-topped car
8mm, black and white, 3 minutes

Digital copy

[ca. 1934]
Aeroplane; desert convoy; aeroplane taking off
8mm, black and white, 2½ minutes

Digital copy

[ca. 1934]
Marquee; camel; hay market; women making road
8mm, black and white, 3 minutes

Digital copy

[ca. 1938]
Sailing boats on Nile with British crew; combing flax; rope making
8mm, black and white, 2½ minutes

Digital copy

[ca. 1937]
Sudanese dancing; British men and women bathing in pool at Amadi and playing with rowing boat; group of young men lined up at Juba; British officials handing out clothing (?)
8mm, black and white, 3 minutes

Digital copy

[n.d. ca. 1928 - 1935]
Weaving on hand loom at Lui; Bari women grinding corn; British women and children on picnic
8mm, black and white, 2½ minutes

Digital copy

[ca. 1935]
Ancient Fur headdress; C.G.D. getting his C.B.E. before guard of honour; lorry on road; Aswan dam; aeroplane ready for take-off
8mm, black and white, 2½ minutes

Digital copy

[ca. 1940]
Suakin: fishing from boat; view of houses; euphorbia in Kassala; swimming pool; horses
8mm, black and white, 3 minutes

Digital copy

[ca. 1938]
Locust control
8mm, black and white, 1½ minutes

Digital copy

[ca. 1938]
Azande village; sudd ; steamer on Nile; baby in pram; Malakal boats; ambach canoe
8mm, black and white, 2½ minutes

Digital copy

1937 Nov
Descent from Imatong Mountains with porters; paying porters; driving car; Annette being carried down by chair from Okaru R.C. Intermediate School
8mm, black and white, 2½ minutes

Digital copy

1936
Christmas at Juba mission station
8mm, black and white, 1 minute

Digital copy

1937
Dead lion, shot by “Rudolf” ; Bussere ferry; getting car on and off ferry; anqarib leg turning; men carrying loads; tame buffalo; Azande family
8mm, black and white, 3 minutes

Digital copy

Time-coded VHS video copy of films 692/1 - 692/8 above

Time-coded VHS video copy of films 692/9 - 692/17 and 730/7 above

1930 Apr
Map of the Bija Districts of Kassala Province by the Sudan Survey Department
scale:   1 to 3,000,000
Size: 25 x 34 cm

1939
Sketch map showing the distribution of forest on the Imatong - Acholi ranges, made by P.J.S. during a flight with Col. Cave, 1 Nov 1939 (2 copies)
1 in. to 4 miles
Size: 21.5 x 35 cm

1947
Ethnographical sketch map of Tripolitania, also showing the distribution of various tribes in adjacent territories. Government press, Tripolitania
scale:   No scale
Size: 61 x 30 cm

[n.d.]
Road map of Libya. Government press, Tripolitania
scale:   1 to 2,000,000
Size: 86 x 47 cm

1958
Review by A. Aziz Allouni of The labour movement in the Sudan, 1945 1955 by Saad El Din Fawzi (O.U.P. 1957), from The Middle East journal v.12 no.1 (1958)