This file contains correspondence between British officials related to two topics: 1) an increase in the number of Persians migrating across the Gulf to the Trucial Coast, Sharjah in particular. This correspondence includes discussions regarding British concerns about the political consequecnes...
File 12/5 (1 A/23) Administration - Activities of the Persian Navy
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This file contains correspondence concerning a number of incidents in which vessels of the Persian Government detained or interfered with Arab vessels in the Gulf. The correspondence discusses the details of these incidents (most of which relate to Bahraini vessels) and also contains broader dis...
This file contains correspondence between British officials (primarily Charles Belgrave, Adviser to Government of Bahrain, and Cornelius James Pelly, Britain's Political Agent in Bahrain) about a number of issues related to the Persian community in Bahrain. The correspondence includes discussi...
File 12/8 (1 A/31) Anti-British activities of Persians
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This file contains correspondence related to alleged 'anti-British' activities of Persians. Much of the correspondence relates to the so-called 'Basidu incident' of August 1933 in which a British flag flying at Basidu in Persia was pulled down by a Persian officer. This correspondence includes ...
File 12/11 Deportation of Indigent Persians from Bahrain
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the deportation of 'indigent' Persian nationals from Bahrain. The correspondence relates to two separate incidents: 1) a period in 1938/9 when a number of Persians were deported from Bahrain and the Government of Iran subsequ...
File 12/9 Visits to Bahrain of government officials and others
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The volume contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain regarding the arrangements and programmes for visits to Bahrain of the following: the Minister at Jedda, Sir Andrew Ryan, visiting the Gulf; the Political Agent at Kuwait; Mr Rendel of the Foreign Office; Dr P...
File 12/14 Accession and coronation of King George VI: Bahrain arrangements
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The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning arrangements for the coronation of King George VI, including a detailed programme for the coronation service, the Police parade and the evening reception on 11 May 1937 in Bahrain (folios 33-39). The...
The volume contains correspondence and other papers related to the establishment of an aerodrome at Bahrain, for the use of the British air transport operator Imperial Airways Limited. The main correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior until No...
The file contains correspondence related to the negotiation of new or continuing civil air agreements between British Government representatives and the Sheikhs of Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial States. The main correspondents in the file are the Political Agent in Bahrain (Major Arnold Crawshaw...
‘File 13/2 VIII Air facilities in Arab shaikhdoms’
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The file’s contents concern the implementation of civil air agreements, and the use of air facilities, at Britain’s aerodromes along the Arab coast (chiefly Bahrain (Muharraq), but also at Sharjah, Kuwait, and Qatar) in the period directly following the Second World War. The principal correspond...
