1953
Voting instructions for 1953 election in the Sudan
Language: Arabic

1954 Apr 6
Handing-over notes for Northern Province compiled by Arber upon his retirement from the Sudan Political Service and his position as Governor, Northern Province in 1954. Arranged under the following headings: “Frontiers”, “Local Government”, “Public Security”, “Economics and Trade”, “Justice”, “Agriculture”, “Lands”, “Communications”, “Public Health”, “Education”, “Finance”, and “Labour”

1954-1955
Draft scripts written by various contributors for a series of programmes broadcast by the BBC Arabic Service on issues surrounding Sudanese independence, the British legacy in the Sudan and future prospects for the country. Includes:

1954 Sep 1-1956 Feb 15
Letters to Arber from various people at the BBC concerning Arber's involvement in a series of programmes on Sudanese independence and the British legacy in the Sudan, created for the BBC Arabic Service, along with Arber's involvement in another one off programme on Sudan independence, created for the BBC Overseas Service. Includes: letter from G. Waterfield, Head of the Eastern Service, outlining plans for the series of talks (SAD.89/4/122); letter from J. Whitehead, Arabic Programme Organiser, concerning criticisms of J.W. Robertson's script on the “Constitution” (SAD.89/4/126-127); letter from W.A. Richardson, Features Producer, BBC Overseas Talks and Features Department, concerning a programme to be transmitted on the BBC Overseas Service to mark the occasion of Sudan's independence (SAD.89/4/149). Attachments include:

1939
An account of Arber's return to the Sudan from London

[c. 1982]
Memoirs of Arber's life in the Sudan Political Service from 1928 to 1954, covering his personal background (736/2/5); service as A.D.C., El Obeid (736/2/6-7); Civil Secretary's Office, Khartoum (736/2/7-8); A.D.C., Torit (736/2/8-10); A.D.C., Rashad (736/2/10-13); P.R.O., Khartoum, working on press propaganda and censorship during the war years (736/2/13-17); D.C., Kassala (736/2/17-18); return to the P.R.O. in the crucial years after the setting up of the Advisory Council in 1945 and the Legislative Assembly in 1948 (736/2/19-21); Governor, Northern Province during the years immediately preceding independence, including references to the visit of the Electoral Commission and anti-British demonstrations during a visit by the Governor-General (736/2/21-27)

[1940]
An account of the part played by the S.D.F. in the East African Campaign

[1944 Oct 28]
Contribution by Arber (as P.R.O.) to the Greek language newspaper The Chronicle on the part played by Greece in the second world war

[n.d.]
An account of the Equatorial Corps' role in the Battle of Tirru

1942
Account of a visit by Arber, Ahmad Yusuf Hashim, Editor al-Sudan al-Jadid and Ismail al-Atabani, Editor al-R`y al-Amm to S.D.F. units on guard duty on the N. African coast from Benghazi to the Tunisian border

1944 Dec 30
“A remarkable year in the Sudan” - a review of the year 1944

1945 Aug 30
“The typical Sudanese”

[1945]
Notes for a lecture on War correspondents covering the East African Campaign, given by Arber to the Clergy House Supper Club, Khartoum

1953 Nov 30
Speech made by Arber to the Khartoum Caledonian Society at the Caledonian Dinner

[1940]
“The Sudan Defence Force 1925-1940” by E.N. Corbyn

[1943]
Account of the Nuba Territorials by G.N.I. Morrison

1956
Ts copy of “Conditions in the Southern Sudan” by [G. Jansen Smith], largely discussing the mutiny of August 1955 in Equatoria Province

[1928-1940]
H.B. Arber, in jodhpurs and tie, standing in garden compound

[1936-1940]
H.B. Arber with Sudanese policeman in Eliri, Kordofan

1939 Apr
3 photos of H.B. Arber, Assistant District Commissioner, Rashad, Kordofan

1939
Group photo of British officials and wives taken at an agricultural show at Abbassiyah, Kordofan. Left to right: P.N. Arber, H.B. Arber's wife; W.A. Porter, Inspector of Agriculture, Talodi, Nuba Mountains; G.D. Lampen, District Commissioner of Rashad, Kordofan; Alec Groves, Inspector of Agriculture, Rashad; I.A. Gillespie, Veterinary Inspector, El Obeid; R. Colvin, Senior Inspector of Agriculture, El Obeid; H.B. Arber, Assistant District Commissioner, Rashad; Dora

[1930s]
H.B. Arber seated by the bank of the Blue Nile near his sailing boat, sail numbered 5

[1930s]
H.B. Arber sailing on the Blue Nile

[1930s]
H.B. Arber, in watching Sudanese group, drinking milk from a gourd whilst on trek

[1930s-1940s]
3 photos of Sudanese men and various British officials, including H.B. Arber and D. Lampen, boring for water in Gebeit, Red Sea Province

1940
H.B. Arber sat reading in his house at 2 Wingate Avenue, Khartoum

1941
Bimbashi H.B. Arber with Murray-Smith seated [on the funnel of a steamer in the Sud]

1941
Bimbashi H.B. Arber, in uniform, seated [on the funnel of a steamer in the Sud]

May 1941
Bimbashi H.B. Arber, in uniform, at Port Sudan

1942
H.B. Arber painting a cradle on the collonaded verandah of his house at 2 Wingate Avenue, Khartoum

1942
H.B. Arber with his wife P.N. Arber standing in a garden at the christening of David Watt

1942
H.B. Arber standing in a garden at the christening of David Watt

1945-1946
H.B. Arber, in uniform and pith helmet with provincial emblem, District Commissioner of Kassala

1945-1946
H.B. Arber, District Commissioner of Kassala, at compound gateway on his way to a meeting with J.M. Humphry, Governor of Kassala

1945-1946
H.B. Arber, District Commissioner of Kassala, returning home from the office

[1946-1951]
H.B. Arber in Sudan Political Service uniform and with flywhisk on his way to attend a garden party at the Governor-General's Palace

[1946-1954]
H.B. Arber, in civilian dress, in Khartoum

[1940s-1950s]
H.B. Arber standing outside a guesthouse

[1940s-1950s]
H.B. Arber on his horse

[1930s]
Four Sudanese policemen, Mohammed, Mohi, Tombul and Shegg el Hagar, standing on and around an open truck

[1930s]
2 photographs of H.B. Arber's servant, Ali

[1930s]
Sudanese servants holding horses belonging to H.B. Arber, C.H.L. Skeet, Deputy Governor, Equatoria, and D. Hawkesworth, District Commissioner, Tonj, Equatoria, standing outside a colonaded building

[1930s]
P.N. Arber, wife of H.B. Arber, drinking milk from a gourd whilst on trek, watched by Sudanese

[1936 x 1940]
Sudanese servant girl watching [Hassan El Hakim, Medical Officer, Sudan Medical Service] dress the injured finger - caught in sewing machine - of P.N. Arber, wife of H.B. Arber, seated on a verandah [at their house at Rashad]

[1930s]
P.N. Arber, wife of H.B. Arber, lying in a mosquito net reading The Times

[1930s]
2 photos of P.N. Arber, wife of H.B. Arber, on Arber's horse, “Silver Shred”

[1930s]
Sudanese servant holding Arber's horse, “Silver Shred”

[1930s]
[D. Hawkesworth, District Commissioner, Tonj, Equatoria] and Dr J. Simms inspecting a Ford car owned by Simms, beside a tebeldi tree

[1930s]
2 photographs of an unidentified British official and family standing around a Ford car, owned by Dr John Simms, at a picnic at Abu Sinun, Kordofan

[1930s]
Mollie Wallace [possibly wife of C.A.G. Wallis, District Commissioner, Central District, Kordofan], standing on a rocky outcrop

[1930s]
Mary Longe, wife of J. Longe, District Commissioner, Umm Ruaba, Kordofan, painting

[1936-1940]
P.N. Arber, wife of H.B. Arber, with Sudanese policeman in Eliri, Kordofan

April 1939
P.N. Arber, wife of H.B. Arber, in Rashad, Kordofan, with bandaged left elbow

Dec 1940
P.N. Arber, wife of H.B. Arber, in Gebeit, Red Sea Province, at Christmas during a stay with Dudley Lampen

Dec 1941
P.N. Arber, wife of H.B. Arber, in a swimming pool in Port Sudan at Christmas

1942
P.N. Arber, wife of H.B. Arber, standing in a garden at the christening of David Watt

[1940s]
3 photos of P.N. Arber, wife of H.B. Arber, standing in a garden

[1930s-1940s]
Four unidentified uniformed British officials

[1930s-1940s]
Unidentified British official asleep on the deck of a ship

[1930s-1940s]
Two unidentified British officials standing outside a building

[1930s-1940s]
Unidentified British officials and ship's crew on the deck of a ship

[1930s-1940s]
Four unidentified British officials and a Sudanese man looking at a baboon

1946 Jan-Feb
Photos of a meeting between the Beni Amer tribe and the Hadanduwah to arrange an amnesty, held at Jebel Gulsa, near Kassala

1939
Photos showing a Nuba gathering at King's Day sports event in Kordofan [possibly Rashad] attended by E.C. Campbell, Governor of Kordofan, and G.D. Lampen, District Commissioner of Rashad, Kordofan

[1936-1940]
The festival of Id al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan in Abbassiyah, Kordofan

1938-1939
Agricultural show at Abbassiyah, Kordofan

1941-1942
Highland games of the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, held at South Barracks, Khartoum

1936-1940
Rashad, Kordofan, during H.B. Arber's time as Assistant District Commissioner there

1940
H.B. Arber's house at No. 2 Wingate Avenue, Khartoum

[1932-1936]
Torit, Equatoria

[1936-1940]
Cotton ginnery in Kalogi, Kordofan

[1936-1940]
The El Obeid club, with a tent pitched outside

[1945-1946]
The markaz and dabtiyyah [in Kassala] on a Friday morning (and so not crowded as usual). At the entrance way are flag poles flying the Union Jack and the Flag of King Fu'ad. H.B. Arber's office lies behind the bush

[1930s-1940s]
House in Umm Ruaba, Kordofan, of John Longe, Assistant District Commissioner, Umm Ruaba

[1930s-1940s]
View of the Red Sea Hills as seen from the coastal plain

[1930s-1940s]
2 photos of a government building, [possibly Kordofan]

[1930s-1940s]
View of [El Obeid] with mosque minaret in background

[1930s]
3 photos of views of landscapes and a tukl settlement from a train travelling through the Sudan

[1930s]
H.B. Arber's five camels being loaded with trek equipment and supplies

[1930s]
Sudanese men wearing jallabiyyahs and turbans posing in front of H.B. Arber's camels loaded with trek equipment and supplies

[1930s]
Three of H.B. Arber's camels, loaded with trek equipment and supplies, being ridden across an area of desert

[1930s]
H.B. Arber's camels, loaded with trek equipment and supplies, arriving at a small village

[1930s]
H.B. Arber's camels at rest outside a market

[1930s]
Sudanese men stood by a truck

[1930s]
An open truck

[1930s]
British officials and Sudanese men inspecting a number of trucks

[1930s]
British officials arriving at a village with car and truck in the background. Sudanese policemen are lined at the entrance of the village to meet their arrival

[1930s]
British official speaking with a Sudanese policeman with car and truck in background. Sudanese policemen stand waiting in the foreground

[1930s]
Truck parked outside of a rest house in Abbassiya with tukls in the background

[1930s]
Large thatched rest house at a camp in the hills

[1930s]
Sudanese men stood in and around a temporary hut built at [Idd el Dam] for British officials on trek

[1930s]
Large temporary hut built for British officials on trek

[1930s]
Interior of a temporary hut built for British officials on trek

[1930s]
Temporary hut built at Mirghani, Northern Province, for British officials on trek

6 January [1939]
Temporary hut built for H.B. Arber, on trek to Kaka

January 1939
Sudanese men and policemen aboard a truck on trek to Kaka

[January 1939]
View of trees on the road to Kaka

[1930s]
2 photos of views of hills and trees along the road to Talodi

[1930s]
View of the village of Eliri, Kordofan, from the south with hills in background

[1930s]
View of hills and tebeldi trees at Nyaro

[1930s]
View from the top of Delami Jebel, Kordofan

[1930s]
View of Abent Pass, [Red Sea Province]

[1930s]
View of Heiban Hills, Kordofan

[1930s]
View of trees and hills along the Otoro-Tira Pass, Kordofan

[1930s]
Palm tree in Umm Berembeita, Kordofan

[1930s]
“Lizard rock”, [possibly in Kordofan]

[1930s]
View of a [?newly made] road

[1930s]
View of a tree by a river

[1930s]
View of a telegraph pole in the middle of a flooded plain or swampland with tukls in the background

[1930s]
Wooded view, with two Sudanese men sitting under a tree and rain clouds forming

[1930s]
View of a plain from a rocky outcrop, [?Kordofan]

[1930s]
Village of tukls surrounded by hills

[1930s]
View of plain and two outcrops, from elevated position

[1930s]
Scrubby landscape and ridgeline

[1930s]
Acacia tree in savannah landscape

[1930s]
Livestock under trees in arid landscape

[1930s]
2 photos of views of Abu Simbel from the Nile

[1930s]
2 photos of views of banks of [the Nile]

[1930s-1940s]
A wooding station on the banks of the Nile

[1930s-1940s]
View of a sunset on the Nile

[1930s-1940s]
The swing bridge on the White Nile at Kosti, White Nile Province

[1930s-1940s]
The Banks of the White Nile south of Kosti, White Nile Province

[1930s-1940s]
A steamer on the Nile

[1930s-1940s]
View from aboard a steamer on the Nile pushing off from the bank

[1930s-1940s]
A Sudanese man ironing laundry aboard the “S.S. Omdurman”

[1930s-1940s]
View of the Nile from the deck of a steamer

[1930s-1940s]
A felucca on the Nile

[1930s-1940s]
A small steamer on the Nile

[1930s-1940s]
The banks of the White Nile near Melut, Upper Nile Province

[1932-1936]
Latuka man with horn, Equatoria

[1932-1936]
Dancing at a Latuka gathering, Equatoria

[1932-1936]
[L.F. Nalder, Governor, Mongalla Province (Equatoria)] (right) and another unidentified British official watching a Southern Sudanese tribal dance [possibly Latuka]

[1932-1936]
Partially built tukls in Terakeka, Equatoria

[1932-1936]
Village of Nyara, Equatoria

[1932-1936]
Sudanese children and adults talking with H.B. Arber in Nyara, Equatoria

[1932-1936]
Sudanese woman and children with H.B. Arber in Shambe, Upper Nile Province, with other villagers in the background

[1932-1936]
H.B. Arber with Sudanese men at a harbour on the White Nile at Shambe, Upper Nile Province

[1932-1936]
Acholi man inspecting a bird trap, Equatoria

[1932-1936]
Acholi man making a fire, Equatoria

[1932-1936]
Acholi hunters with spears and horns, Equatoria

[1932-1936]
Acholi women standing among tukls in a village, Equatoria

[1932-1936]
Tukls in Morung, Kordofan

[1936-1940]
Three Nuba men wearing turbans and Jallabiyyas stand with a British official [possibly H.B. Arber] in Morung, Kordofan. In the background are tukls and palm trees

[1936-1940]
Nuba children with a mule or donkey in front of tukls in Morung, Kordofan

[1936-1940]
Nuba woman in Abu Tuleih, Kordofan

[1936-1940]
Nuba children [possibly in Abu Tuleih, Kordofan]

[1936-1940]
Nuba women, child and man in front of a bridal hut [possibly in Abu Tuleih, Kordofan]

[1936-1940]
Nuba women and child stood next to a donkey or mule [possibly in Abu Tuleih, Kordofan]

[1936-1940]
View of El Obeid, Kordofan, with Sudanese people in the foreground and mosque in the background

[1936-1940]
Sudanese man in white robes at the top of a hill pointing out the view towards Kalogi, Kordofan

[1936-1940]
Sudanese man under a tree with tukls in background in Jebel Fallata, Kordofan

[1936-1940]
Sudanese men and women stood by the bank of the White Nile at Kaka, White Nile Province

[1936-1940]
A Sudanese war veteran wearing a hat and medal with other Sudanese men wearing robes and turbans in El Amira, Kordofan

[1936-1940]
Sudanese children talking to a British official in El Amira, Kordofan

[1936-1940]
Otoro Nuba dancers at a gathering in Kauda, Kordofan

[1936-1940]
Sudanese men wearing turbans and Jallabiyyas gather to watch a camel being saddled, [possibly in Kordofan]

[1930s-1940s]
Sudanese women carrying pots of milk

[1930s-1940s]
Northern Sudanese men collecting wood

[1930s-1940s]
Two Northern Sudanese men packing grain into sacks, with two donkeys in the background

[1930s-1940s]
Northern Sudanese man riding a donkey carrying a bale of straw

[1930s-1940s]
A busy suqq` in Northern Sudan

[1930s-1940s]
2 photos of Northern Sudanese men, some wearing turbans and robes, posing in a line

[1930s-1940s]
A game of football played by Sudanese men at a King's Day sports event

[1930s-1940s]
[Cattle shed] in Saqiya

[1930s-1940s]
Crowd of Sudanese men wearing turbans and jallabiyyas gathered by a river in Jebelein, White Nile Province

[1930s-1940s]
Tukls surrounded by grass fences with hills in background

[1930s-1940s]
Groups of Southern Sudanese schoolboys stood in line, [possibly to attend a ceremony or event]. An arena and pavilion can be seen in the background

[1930s-1940s]
Groups of Sudanese men wearing robes and turbans, stood outside of a suqq`

[1932-1936]
Group of Nilotic tribesmen and children

[1932-1936]
Group of Southern Sudanese women, men and children gathered around three British officials

[1930s-1940s]
Southern Sudanese people gathered by a river

[1945-1946]
2 photos of Border bandit, Ali Muntaz, and his men meeting with [H.B. Arber, District Commissioner, Kassala]. In the background are a number of Hadanduwah tribesmen

[1945-1946]
H.B. Arber, [District Commissioner of Kassala], holding a meglis

[1951-1954]
Sudanese woman wearing abaya with young child in Mirghani, Northern Province

[1951-1954]
Two young Sudanese girls receiving gifts from P.N. Arber, H.B. Arber's wife, in Mirghani, Northern Province

[1930s-1950s]
Sudanese man wearing turban, posing with a horse

[1930s-1950s]
Two Northern Sudanese men riding horses

[1930s-1950s]
Sudanese man wearing turban, mounted on a horse

1922
2 photos of the Assua River, Uganda

1922
Bamboo bridge over the [Pager river, Uganda]

[1930s-1940s]
Two cheetahs chained to the ground

[1930s-1940s]
Camel with young twin camels

1940
2 photos of H.B. Arber and a Sudanese policeman investigating the wreckage of an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 aircraft shot down near Suakin, Red Sea Province Photo taken by P.N. Arber later used by Middle East propaganda

1940
Sudanese man and policeman investigating the wreckage of an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 aircraft shot down near Suakin, Red Sea Province

[1940]
British infantry from the Indian Brigade in Eritrea taking cover among rocks for sniping

1956
VHS copy of cinefilms originally taken by Arber of the Sudan: Khartoum Zoo, 1956; Ed Damer; Eclipse of the Sun, Ed Damer; New Irrigation; Belham Hayes; Royal Britannia; Witchwood Lodge
Colour, 10 minutes

1953
The Sudanization of the Sudan Civil Service, with particular reference to the Political Service. Handout no.180
(Sudan, Public Relations Office: Khartoum 1953)

1953
The Egyptian invasion PROJECT, Nov 22 1953
(Sudan, Public Relations Office: Khartoum 1953)

Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into the library's printed collections and catalogued on the Open Public Access Catalogue
al-Ra `y al-Amm 15, 17, 19, 24 and 26 Mar 1945