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in 1990, when she was evacuated to
Britain. Dame Violet died before the liberation of Kuwait. The house was ransacked during the invasion, but has since been restored by the Kuwaiti National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, and is now a tourist attraction. It is one of few surviving examples
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that are created by wet nursing, and this "blood affinity" between
Dickson and the 'Anizah meant he was treated as a member of the tribe. He stated that this blood tie 'in later life has been of assistance to me in my dealings with the Badawin of the high desert and around Kuwait'. Following the
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British Political Agency in Kuwait was based in a house that had been built in 1870 for a Kuwaiti merchant. The Dicksons moved into the house in 1929, and the building served as the British political agency until 1935. Dickson lived there until his death in 1959 and Dame Violet until the
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death of Lady Jane Digby, the
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Dickson had a detailed knowledge of northern Gulf Arab life and customs, and produced two books which are considered valuable chronicles of a now-threatened way of life. These books,
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The central Middle East: a handbook of anthropology and published research on the Nile valley, the Arab Levant, southern
Mesopotamia, the Arabian peninsula, and Israel
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Archive, St Antony's College, Oxford University (MECA reference: GB165-0085).
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Warsidaha Ururka
Ingiriiska Iyo Soomaalida (Journal of the Anglo-Somali Society), collected vols. 33-40, The Anglo-Somali Society, 2003, p. 63
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hinterland, his meetings with rulers and all the machinations and gossip that sometimes go into political intelligence-gathering."
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Warrington Saud ("Dickie") Dickson, MBE (who died in May 2005), and a daughter (Irene)
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A few papers are held by the
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Creating the
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Jennings, M. C., (1989) "Kuwait 50 years ago: Colonel H. R. P. Dickson's Game Register"
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A Struggle for Supremacy? Great Britain, the United States and Kuwaiti Oil in the 1930s
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The Arab of the Desert: A Glimpse into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sa'udi Arabia
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Article about Zahra Dickson Freeth, mentioning H. R. P. and Dame Violet Dickson
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The Arab of the Desert: A Glimpse into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sa'udi Arabia
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The Arab of the Desert: A Glimpse into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sa'udi Arabia
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Dame Violet Dickson: "Umm Saud's" fascinating life in Kuwait from 1929 to 1990
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of nineteenth century Kuwaiti architecture, with thirty rooms on two floors.
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Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 40, 740-744 (1939)
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from the 1920s until the 1940s, and author of several books on
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566:"DICKSON - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements"
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348:Account of a visit to the Dickson House in Kuwait
255:The Catalogue for the Harold Dickson Collection.
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