Coll 35/25(2) 'Telegraphs, Postal & Wireless. Broadcasting of anti-British propaganda in the Middle East, Persian Gulf, N.W.F. and Central Asia, etc. Broadcasts in Arabic by B.B.C.'
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This file contains correspondence regarding the timings, content and tone of BBC Arabic radio broadcasts and the reception that they received in the region, especially in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. The correspondence is primarily between officials at the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait...
Memorandum, written by Colin George Campbell, 31 December 1900, about Koweit [Kuwait], including a brief historical introduction and detailed information for the years 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, and 1900. Topics discussed include Mubarak al-Sabah [Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] having murdered his fat...
The volume is entitled Arab Tribes of the Baghdad Wilayat [vilayet], and is a British intelligence document on the tribes living in the area around the city of Baghdad. It was compiled in July 1918 by the Arab Bureau, Baghdad (the Arab Bureau was a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department es...
The volume consists of the following: memorandum on tribal divisions in the Principality of Oman to accompany table of tribes, by Major Edward Charles Ross, Political Agent at Muscat (folios 2-3); table entitled 'Principal Tribes of Oman', signed by Ross (folio 4). The table is divided between t...
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part II. J G Lorimer. 1915
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This volume is Volume I, Part II (Historical) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood. Part II contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla,...
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. I. Geneaological Tables-Maps. Part III. J G Lorimer. 1915
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This volume is Part III of Volume 1 of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915) compiled John Gordon Lorimer. The contents are divided into two sections and contain genealogical tables of Persian Gulf and Arabian ruling families, and one map, housed...
'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. II. Geographical and Statistical. J G Lorimer. 1908'
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This volume is Volume II of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1908) compiled by John Gordon Lorimer. The volume is a geographical dictionary with a series of alphabetically arranged articles relating to the physical and political conditions of the ...
This volume is Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume 1: General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division: August 1916). The handbook contains a variety of information about the region of Mesopotamia, including its geography, economy, population, and history. The prefatory note at the start of the v...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Classical, and Turkish, Ottoman
These are three volumes containing bilingual copies of ‘Treaties and Undertakings’ between the British Government and Persian Gulf rulers, as well as related correspondence. The first volume, catalogued as IOR/L/PS/20/C158A/1, covers treaties and agreements with the Shaikh of Mohammerah [Khorra...
An official publication entitled ‘A Handbook of Diplomatic and Political Arabic’, with a foreword dated March 1945. The publication consists of: A list of vocabulary in English and Arabic with a largely political focus, first presented alphabetically in English and repeated alphabetically in Ar...
