1950 Aug 17
Memorandum by H.R.P. Harrison, A/Governor Khartoum with draft report by Udal on non-official prison visitors and the aftercare of adult prisoners

1951
Middle East Centre for Arab Studies final examination papers

1951 Dec
Confidential report by Udal on his travels in Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Jordon, Jul-Aug 1951, during his summer break from the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies

1952 Apr 15
Report by Udal on the ceremonies performed at the installation of Reth Kur Fafiti at Fashoda, 6-9 Feb 1952

[1952 Aug]
“A note on the future of the southern Sudan”, a memorandum submitted by Udal to the Civil Secretary's Office (ts. copy, with draft)

[1953]
Shilluk sub-district annual report 1952-53 (draft), by Udal, covering general matters, personnel, local government, local politics, local news of interest, public security and justice, labour, climate, agriculture and forests, public health, education, veterinary, wildlife, communications, posts and telegraphs, water supply, buildings, trade and finance

1954 Jan 16-20
Copy letter from A.E.S. Charles, Director of Establishments to the General Secretary, Expatriate Civil Servants' Association on the revaluation of the former “C” scale, with covering letter from A.C. Beaton to all governors

1954 Jan 17
Circular letter from A.C. Beaton, Permanent Under-Secretary, to all governors re the revaluation of posts in the administrative service, with confidential memorandum by Udal written in response to this letter (ts. with draft)

1954 May 14
Shilluk sub-district annual report 1953-54 by Udal. Subjects as above in 1952-53 report

1950's
Kodok markaz handing-over notes by Udal, covering administration, tribal administration, local government, justice, markaz police, inter-tribal problems, agriculture and fisheries, public health, education, water supply, veterinary, communications, Kodok town, forests, trade and taxation

1958
List of members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, arranged by province

1950 May 5-Jun 23
Letters from E.J.N. Wallis, Governor Khartoum, to N.R. Udal concerning his son's progress

1950 Mar 19-1951 Jan 14
Personal letters home from Udal to his parents, chiefly from Khartoum, and covering his arrival in Khartoum with an account of the flight from Britain via Malta (SAD 781/3/3-4); early days in Khartoum, meetings with various members of the Political Service and assessment of local opposition to British rule (SAD 781/3/9-11); visit to the Assembly with `Abd al-Rahman Ali Taha, Ali Badri and others and a tour of Gordon College (SAD 781/3/12); meetings with local dignitaries, including Shaikh Babikr Badri, Siddiq (son of `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi) and Muhammad Saleh Shingetti, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and a visit to a cooperative pump scheme on the Nile (SAD 781/3/13-16); death of Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman's eldest sister and the schoolboys' strike at Wadi Seidna, (SAD 781/3/17); resignations from the Legislative Assembly and account of his daily routine (SAD 781/3/19); tea with Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman (SAD 781/3/20); strikes and Umma Party support for increasing the cost of living allowance (SAD 781/3/21); meeting with Sayyid `Ali Mirghani and farewell party for Whistler, the Qaid (SAD 781/3/23); house tax assessments, silver jubilee for Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman's Dairat and opening of the new civil hospital in Khartoum North (SAD 781/3/24); political difficulties facing Sayyid `Ali Mirghani and birth of a new anti-Sectarian party closely linked with the communists (SAD 781/3/27-28); meeting with a number of Sudanese qadis at Omdurman (SAD 781/3/29); dinner with Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman (SAD 781/3/32-33); farewell parties for E.J.N. Wallis, Governor Khartoum (SAD 781/3/38); heavy rains and flood damage (SAD 781/3/42-45); moves towards a coalition of the Unity parties (SAD 781/3/52-55); preparations for a move to Beirut to attend the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (SAD 781/3/52-57, 60-61); the unlikelihood of an agreement between Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman and Sayyid `Ali Mirghani (SAD 781/3/60-61); Isma`il Azhari's campaign for a plebiscite (SAD 781/3/62-64); government reaction to demands for a plebiscite (SAD 781/3/65-68); memorial service for Huddleston, former Governor-General and the arrival of Scoones, the new Qaid (SAD 781/3/69-76); deplorable state of education in the country, with continuing strikes (SAD 781/3/77-82); temporary post as Assistant clerk of the Legislative Assembly (SAD 781/3/83-87); vote of confidence in the Legislative Assembly in `Abd al-Rahman Ali Taha over the strike at Khor Taggat School (SAD 781/3/88-89); from Asmara on medical leave, with a description of the town and assessment of future prospects for Eritrea (SAD 781/3/90-92); failure of the British Government to exploit pro-British sentiment in the Sudan, shortage of educated Sudanese capable of governing the country and an Umma Party protest meeting (SAD 781/3/93-96); threat of general strike by the newly elected Workers' Federation of Unions (SAD 781/3/97-104); proposed new Commission to consider the amendment of the Legislative Assembly debate on the resolution for self-government and the Executive Council Ordinance and consideration of a resolution signed by 50 Legislative Assembly members calling for self-government for the Sudan by the end of 1951 (SAD 781/3/101-108); dismissal of striking firemen (SAD 781/3/105-108); reaction to the Legislative Asembly debate on the resolution for self-government and public renunciation by Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman of designs on a crown (SAD 781/3/109-110); prospects for a reconciliation between Sayyid Ali Mirghani and Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman (SAD 781/3/115-117); possibility of Khatmiyyah participation in the Commission to consider the amendment of the Executive Council and Legislative Assembly Ordinance (SAD 781/3/118-120); from Cairo re Umma Party reaction to British opposition to their self-government motion (SAD 781/3/121-123)

1951 Jan 19-Nov 26
Personal letters home from Udal to his parents during a year-long intensive Arabic course at the Middle East Centre for Arab studies at Shemlan in Beirut. Include descriptions of his fellow students and progress of the course, social life and visits to neighbouring countries. The letters also cover the journey to Beirut via Cairo and meeting with G.W. Bell, the Assistant Sudan Agent there (SAD 781/4/1-3); arrangements for Udal's parents to visit the Sudan (SAD 781/4/4-5); criticism of misleading statements in Muhammad Saleh Shingetti's broadcast (SAD 781/4/6-8); increasing Khatmiyyah involvement in the affairs of the Legislative Assembly as a result of British opposition to the Umma motion and support for the British line from the tribal leaders and southern politicians (SAD 781/4/9-12); invitation to Udal's father from Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman to visit the Sudan and the unlikelihood of Sayyid Ali Mirghani backing the Commission to revise the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Ordinance (SAD 781/4/17-19); terms of reference for the Sudan Commission (781/4/23-25); from Jerusalem re changes there since the war (SAD 781/4/26-29); from Aleppo in Syria and Shemlan re his visit to Amman, Bosra, Damascus, Palmyra and Antioch in Turkey (SAD 781/4/30-40); the composition of the Governor-General's Commission on the future of the Sudan under Judge Stanley-Baker (SAD 781/4/44-45); short trip to Syria (SAD 781/4/54-56); police strike in the Sudan (SAD 781/4/64-66); progress of the Anglo-Egyptian talks on the future of the Sudan (SAD 781/4/67-68); political developments in the Sudan and a visit to southern Lebanon (SAD 781/4/69-71); from Tripoli and Cairo re study leave in Tripoli to improve his Arabic (SAD 781/4/76-79); trip to Jordan (SAD 781/4/80-81); reports of a speech by Siddiq al-Mahdi in which he threatened an Umma Party boycott of the Assembly if self-government was not forthcoming by the end of the year (SAD 781/4/91-94); visit to Damascus (SAD 781/4/97-101); appointment of Udal's father as Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman's personal and political adviser in the U.K. (SAD 781/4/102-103); reaction to the abrogation of the Anglo-Egyptian agreements on the Sudan (SAD 781/4/104-107); resignation of members of the Constitutional Commission (SAD 781/4/120-121)

1951 May 8
Letter from J.W. Robertson, Civil Secretary, to Udal re political developments in the Sudan

1951 Dec 31-1952 Dec 29
Personal letters home from Udal to his parents from Kokok, Upper Nile Province where he was A.D.C. Shilluk. Subjects covered include the journey up the Nile (SAD 781/5/3-5); arrival at Malakal, description of Kodok and district, needs of the Shilluk and conference with neighbouring officials on the infiltration of Arab Nomads into Shilluk country for grazing (SAD 781/5/6-9); N.R. Udal's visit to Omdurman and Udal's feelings on being posted to the south (SAD 781/5/10-13); trek through the district visiting one of the new cultivation areas and a native court centre at Athodwai (SAD 781/5/14-16); visit to the new Reth of the Shilluk (SAD 781/5/17-19); views on lack of progress in the south, particularly in education and report of the Constitution Commission (SAD 781/5/20-23); installation of the new Reth (SAD 781/5/24-27); exploration of the area between Atara and Fama with Aubrey Davidson (SAD 781/5/28-30); native court meeting at Kaka (SAD 781/5/31-33); support for the Socialist Republican Party, illegal grazing by Hawazma-Baqqarah cattle in the Shilluk lands (SAD 781/5/36-38); British views on their future prospects after Sudanisation and the Shilluk Education Council meeting (SAD 781/5/39-42); preparations for the May elections (SAD 781/5/43-44); details of the new constitution and the spread of cerebro-spinal meningitis (SAD 781/5/45-48); court duty and collection of tribute at Biu, views of southern Sudanese on self-determination and Udal's plans for his future career (SAD 781/5/49-52); dealings with the Reth of the Shilluk (781/5/53-54); efforts to clean up Kodok (SAD 781/5/55-56); invitation to Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman to send a delegation to Cairo (SAD 781/5/59-61); description of Kodok (SAD 781/5/62-64); trip by steamer to Western Nuer District with P. Bowcock and A.W. Polden (SAD 781/5/70-72); from Malakal re his return journey at the end of leave (SAD 781/5/73-74); progress of negotiations in Cairo (SAD 781/5/77-78); mounting opposition in the south to self-determination (SAD 781/5/84-86); Umma Party views on special safeguards for the south (SAD 781/5/91-94); N.R. Udal's article on the history of Gordon Memorial College and the arrival of journalists and politicians in the south (SAD 781/5/95-97); Christmas festivities in Malakal, refusal of the journalists to visit the Reth at Fashoda as a protest against the Yambio incident and growing distrust between north and south (SAD 781/5/98-101)

1953 Jan 4-Dec 28
Continuation of personal letters from Udal to his parents from Kodok, Upper Nile Province including references to the presentation of a robe of honour to the Reth, reports of the progress of an Egyptian delegation in Equatoria and proposals by `Abd Allah Mirghani for the spread of Islam in the south (SAD 781/6/1-3); the Egyptian delegation to the Reth, led by Salah Salim, news of an agreement between all the Northern parties on a complete handover of power in 3 years (SAD 781/6/4-8); visits by British journalists to the south to report on the situation there (SAD 781/6/11); the Shilluk “fighting season”, alarm in the south at the Khartoum agreement (SAD 781/6/13-15); delays to the elections and increasing Egyptian propaganda in the south (SAD 781/6/20-22); visit of Yaq`ub `Uthman, Assistant Secretary General of the Umma to Malakal and the holding of a trial for sedition at Malakal (SAD 781/6/23-25); Selwyn Lloyd's visit to Khartoum (SAD 781/6/26-28); Shilluk/Dinka/Nuer meeting on the Zeraf river (SAD 781/6/29-31); departure of J. Longe, the Governor and reaction in Khartoum to Selwyn Lloyd's visit (SAD 781/6/32-34); delay in the elections (SAD 781/6/35-36); trial at the Reth's court of Shilluk accused of murder and accusations against Udal of partiality in the trial of an onbashi (SAD 781/6/44-46); from Khartoum re Udal's return journey from leave (SAD 781/6/49); continued pressure on the Reth from the Egyptian Irrigation Service to go to Egypt and news of Udal's stay in Khartoum (SAD 781/6/50-51); deteriorating situation in Kodok and visit of the Reth's advisers to Egypt (SAD 781/6/52-54); public disturbance in Kodok as a result of a illegal gathering of Arab merchants (SAD 781/6/55-57); first major court held by Udal (SAD 781/6/60-61); restrictions imposed by the Electoral Commission on elections to the Senate (SAD 781/6/62-63); candidates for the Shilluk constituency (SAD 781/6/64-66); continuing interference from the Egyptian Irrigation Department (SAD 781/6/69-71); visit of Ismail al-Azhari to Malakal and Udal's attendance at a Shilluk funeral dance for one of the Reth's wives (SAD 781/6/74-75); British press coverage of events in the Sudan and a visit from Sefton Delmer, journalist for the Daily Express (SAD 781/6/76-78); N.U.P. objections to the presence of the Reth and Sefton Delmer at the election station at Kaka (SAD 781/6/79-80); results of the Shilluk election and elections in general (SAD 781/6/81-83); approaches by northern politicians to southern delegates with a view to forming an “Independence front” and the appointment of northern Deputy Governors to southern provinces (SAD 781/6/84-85); success of the N.U.P. in the elections (SAD 781/6/86-87); first meeting of the new Shilluk council (SAD 781/6/88-90)

1954 Jan 3-Dec 3
Continuation of letters home from Udal to his parents from Kodok, Upper Nile Province including references to discussions with Sa`d al-Din Fawzi, a lecturer at the University of Khartoum on future prospects for the Sudan (SAD 781/7/1); appointment of Udal's sub- ma`mur as minister without portfolio (SAD 781/7/2-3); invitations to the opening of the new parliament (SAD 781/7/4-5); prospects for future employment (SAD 781/7/6-7); refusal of the Southern Party to co-operate under an Umma Party opposition leader (SAD 781/7/8-9); refusal of the Shilluk to accept the presence of a northern fishing team in their khor (SAD 781/7/10-11); festivities to mark the first anniversary of the Khartoum agreement and the failure of Robertson and Howe to ensure safeguards for the south (SAD 781/7/12-13); Shilluk/Dinka meeting at Tonga in the aftermath of serious inter-tribal fighting (SAD 781/7/14-15); reinstatement of Neguib and attempts to isolate Egypt in the Middle East (SAD 781/7/16-18); demonstration in Khartoum when Neguib was temporarily overthrown and criticism of the Self-Government Constitution of 1952 (SAD 781/7/19-21); mounting tension in Khartoum between the N.U.P. and the Umma (SAD 781/7/22-23); tribute collection and attendance at a peace-making ceremony at Fashoda (SAD 781/7/24); visit of the Reth to S. Kordofan (SAD 781/7/25-27); visit from the new Sudanese Deputy Governor (SAD 781/7/34-36); proposed early Sudanisation of some posts, resulting in delayed leave (SAD 781/7/39-40); Shilluk inter-village fight over fishing rights (SAD 781/7/41-42); refusal of the Shilluk to accept a chief appointed by the Reth (SAD 781/7/43-44); grain shortage due to steamers' strike (SAD 781/7/47-49); departure of a number of British officials on final leave (SAD 781/7/50-51); arrival of Udal's notice (SAD 781/7/54-55); trek to Tonga area to inspect ruined crops and make arrangements for famine relief (SAD 781/7/58-60); meeting arranged between the Reth and some division chiefs and Azhari at Malakal and Azhari's agreement to demands of the south regarding promotion, pay, etc. (SAD 781/7/61-62); hardening of opinion among educated southerners (SAD 781/7/63-64); attempted assassination of Azhari in Malakal and Udal's handover of the district to Fadl Ubayd (SAD 781/7/65-67); hostility towards new northern Sudanese D.C.'s in the south (SAD 781/7/68-69); reasons for the attempted assassination of Azhari and Shilluk mistrust of the Reth as a result of his visit to Khartoum (SAD 781/7/70-72)

1947 Mar 10-1948 Jan 15
Letters to Udal from A.W. Nejumi in Cairo offering to meet Udal on his way to Palestine. A.W. Nejumi was the son of `Abd al-Rahman al-Nejumi and was picked up as a baby from the battlefield of Toski in Aug 1889.

1952
Card from `Abd Allah Khalil to Udal acknowledging his congratulatory message on the occasion of Ramadan

1954 Nov 1
Farewell telegram from Muhammad `Uthman Yassin to Udal on his departure from Kodok

1958-1968
Personal letters to Udal from friends and former colleagues in the Sudan, including John G. Warrabeck concerning his dislike of life in London and with news of former colleagues in the Sudan administration (SAD 781/8/31-33); Anthony Mann of the Daily Telegraph to J.C.N. Donald (forwarded by Donald to Udal) concerning election results in the south, economic, military and administrative conditions there and increasing Soviet influence in the Sudan (SAD 781/8/34-35); Mohammed Osman Yassin, Governor Upper Nile Province concerning agricultural schemes for the Shilluk and Dinka and plans to meet on Udal's trip back from Rhodesia (SAD 781/8/36-38); Ahmed Hasan El Daw regarding the death of J.O.U's father (SAD 781/8/44); and letters of thanks for hospitality

1964-1996
Personal letters and postcards to J.O.U. from Richard Hill, founder of the Sudan Archive, with some copy replies, chiefly concerning Hill's research for A black corps d'élite and J.O.U.'s work for his history of the Nile. Enclosed is one letter from Peter Hogg (Hill's co-author) and obituaries for Hill from The Times and the Independent.

1961-1967
Letters to J.O.U. from members of the Mahdi family, chiefly exchanging greetings, extending thanks for hospitality and re arrangements to meet up in either London or Khartoum

1995 Feb 15-22
Personal letters to Udal from Sam Richardson (former A.D.C. Northern Kordofan 1947-1950, A.D.C., and D.C. El Fasher, Darfur 1950-1953 and Resident Dar Masalit 1953-1955) concerning his experiences in the Sudan, in particular antiquities visited while on trek in Dar Kabbabish and the origins of the Zaghawa

1950-1954
Contact prints from an original album of photographs still in the possession of the Udal family, covering Udal's service at the Middle East Centre for Arab studies in the Lebanon, with trips to Israel, Syria, Turkey, South Lebanon, Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Jordan and Iraq.
(For duplicates of those photographs marked * and photographs of similar subject matter, particularly from the years 1952-1954. See under (b) Loose Photographs, below)
Includes the following:

1954
Contact prints from an original album of photographs still in the possession of the Udal family, covering Udal's service with the Shilluk and the journey home in 1954.
(For duplicates of those photographs marked * and photographs of a similar subject matter, see under (b) Loose Photographs, below)
Includes the following:

[ c.1952-1954]
Many of the following loose photographs are duplicates of photographs in the albums, arranged here in a similar order, with cross-references, and interfiled with photographs of a similar subject matter. Most were taken by Udal

[c.1950-1954]
Enlargements of photographs, some originally taken by Udal and repeated in the albums above, others taken by the photographer for Life Magazine

1953 Jan 26
“Alarm in South Sudan. Unwelcome news from Khartoum”, from The Times

1953 Nov 23
“I call this tragedy. Take pride in men like young John Udal - but tomorrow holds trouble”, from the Daily Express, with thank you card from the author, Sefton Delmer, for Udal's hospitality

1953 Nov
“The king and I go to an election”, by Sefton Delmer, from the Daily Express

1958
Transcript of BBC broadcasts by W.V. Harcourt, on “Egypt's failure in the Sudan”

Two pipes with wooden stems and clay bowls, one stem with additional leather and metal decoration (one stem detached from bowl)

1897-1948
Set of Sudan stamps, collected, mounted and labelled by Udal on A4 card. The set consists of 236 individual stamps on 30 sheets, three of which have suffered some damage from damp

[n.d.]
Article by J.O. Udal on “Britain's landing in Egypt: 1882”