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1. IOR/L/PS/12/1966

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1966
Title:
Coll 5/20 ‘Air Route to India – Arab Coast Secn: Negotiations with Trucial Sheikhs’
Scope & Content:
The file is largely made up of correspondence, with occasional internal India Office notes, and records of inter-departmental meetings. The subject matter is the establishment of an aerodrome on the Trucial Coast to facilitate the transfer of Imperial Airways' Europe-India route from Southern Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1932-6 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (636 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C91/3
Title:
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol. I. Geneaological Tables-Maps. Part III. J G Lorimer. 1915
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 volume, 22 items (45 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/239-294

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/239-294
Title:
File 14: Arab Coast and Islands
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series contains correspondence from 1871 to 1948 on a range of matters relating to the Trucial Coast and nearby islands including Abu Musa, Tunb [Tumb] and Sir Abu Nu'air. Topics in the correspondence discussed include: British relations with the Trucial States of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1871-1948
Extent:
56 volumes

4. IOR/R/15/1/673

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/673
Title:
CONFIDENTIAL 86/7-III B.36. TRUCIAL COAST.
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the intention of Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) to negotiate extensions on the options that the D’Arcy Exploration Company had acquired with the rulers of Abu Dhabi (Shaikh Shakhbūt bin Sulṭān bin Zāyid Āl Nahyān), Ajman (Rāshid Bin Ḥumaid Al-Nu`aimī), Dibai [Dubai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jan 1936-30 Jun 1936
Extent:
1 volume (246 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/676

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/676
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL 86/7-VI B.43. PETROLEUM CONCESSIONS LTD. TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, primarily between Major Frank Holmes as negotiator for Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL), John Skliros, Director of Petroleum Concessions Limited in London, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent at Bahrain regarding progress in n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 May 1937-29 Jun 1937
Extent:
1 volume (221 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/677

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/677
Title:
'Vol-B.44. Confidential 86/7-vii. P.C.L. TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The volume primarily consists of correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Percy Gordon Loch); Political Agent at Bahrain (Tom Hickinbotham); the Residency Agent at Sharjah (Khan Sahib Abd ‘al-Razzaq) the India Office (John Charles Walton, Maurice...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
26 May 1937-9 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 volume (198 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/678

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/678
Title:
'Confidential 86/7-VIII B-45 P.C.L. TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Tom Hickinbotham, Hugh Weightman), the Residency Agent at Sharjah (Khan Sahib Saiyid ‘Abd al-Razzaq), the Secretary of State for...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1937-29 Dec 1937
Extent:
1 volume (218 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/703

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/703
Title:
'Confdl. 86/49-(i). Sharjah Oil.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises of a letter from Ernerst Vincent Packer, Manager for Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Charles Geoffrey Prior) enclosing a copy of an amendment to the Sharjah Oil Concession agreement agreed with Sheikh Shaikh Sulṭān b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1946-7 Apr 1946
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/749

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/749
Title:
Oil Concessions
Scope & Content:
The file consists of five volumes containing copies of oil concessions in the Persian Gulf region and correspondence between British officials related to them. 1) Persian Gulf - Concessions in Bahrein [Bahrain], Kuwait &c. (sic) Correspondence 1932 to July, 1933 (folios 1-140); 2) Qatr [Q...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-c 1964
Extent:

5 volumes (306 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/259-293

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/259-293
Title:
File 7 Royal Air Force
Scope & Content:
The files and volumes in the series deal with the activities of the Royal Air Force (RAF), and to a lesser extent Imperial Airways/British Overseas Airways Corporation, in the Gulf, before, during and after the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the files are the numerous incumben...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1929-1950
Extent:
35 files and volumes (3,171 folios)