File No. 17/1-I Posts and Telegraphs. Bahrain Radio Station.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch), the Officer-in-Charge of the Bahrain Branch of Cable and Wireless Limited (Cecil Bottomley), the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), the Shaikh of Bahrain (Ḥamad bin ‘Īs...
File 17/1-II Posts and Telegraphs. Radio Station Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman, Reginald George Alban, Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, Tom Hickinbotham), Political Resident in Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Charles Geoffrey Prior), Officer-in-Charge of the Bahrain Branch of...
The file discusses arrangements for the wartime censorship of telegrams and letters and customs checking of individuals’ baggage and personal belongings. Included in the file are official orders in Arabic, English and French relating to censorship rules; requests for letters in other languages t...
The file contains proposals from the Director of Posts and Telegraphs at Karachi (Harbans Lal Jerath) to the Political Agent at Bahrain (Cornelius James Pelly, Arnold Crawshaw Galloway) and Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Arnold Crawshaw Galloway, William Rupert Hay) to establish a wirel...
File 18/3 Application of Indian Arms Act to Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file mainly relates to a proposal to curb the proliferation of arms in Bahrain [often referred to in the papers as Bahrein] by the issue of a proclamation (also referred to as an Alaan and an 'Alan) by the Ruler of Bahrain banning the import and export of fireams and other weapons and provid...
The file relates to proposals for, and the drafting of The Trucial States Order in Council, 1950. The file includes correspondence from the Residency Agent, Sharjah; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Government of India; the Foreign Office; and rulers ...
The file contains correspondence, circulars and other papers relating to visits by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India (the Marquis of Willingdon, Major Freeman Freeman-Thomas) and his wife Lady Willingdon (Marie Freeman-Thomas) to Bahrain and Sharjah in May 1934, while travelling by Imper...
This file concerns visits made by Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon (referred to as Lady Willingdon), wife of Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Marquess of Willingdon, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, to Bahrain and Sharjah on stopovers in June 1933. The file contains correspondence bet...
The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to visits to the Persian Gulf by foreign dignitaries. Correspondents in the file include the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agents at Bahrain and Kuwait. The file includes: correspondence relating to the visit to B...
The volume comprises correspondence sent to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, in response to Sir George Maxwell’s (British adviser to the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Slavery) requests for information on the extent and nature of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf. Copies of c...
