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1391. IOR/R/15/2/588-600

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/588-600
Title:
File 19 Travellers and Tourists
Scope & Content:
The confidential subject series, entitled Travellers and Tourists, comprises files pertaining to the visits of a variety of travellers and dignitaries – both British and foreign – to the Gulf region, or to specific places along the Arab coast of the Gulf, usually Bahrain. Most of the files are de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1950
Extent:
13 files (466 folios)

1392. IOR/R/15/2/590

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/590
Title:
‘19/3 HER EXCELLENCY LADY WILLINGDON’
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1933-7 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (167 folios)

1393. IOR/R/15/2/591

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/591
Title:
‘Visit of Her Excellency Lady Willingdon’
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 May 1933-12 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

1394. IOR/R/15/2/597

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/597
Title:
‘19/10 VISITS OF FOREIGN NOTABILITIES TO BAHRAIN’
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1935-30 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)

1395. IOR/R/15/2/601

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/601
Title:
‘File 20/1 I Slave Trade in the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1931-30 Jul 1937
Extent:

1 volume (332 folios)

1396. IOR/R/15/2/601-604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/601-604
Title:
File 20 Slavery: Slave Trade in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
These slavery files consist of confidential correspondence sent to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, relating to the nature and extent of slavery and the slave trade in the Gulf region. The files contain: reports and statistical data on the slave trade, gathered for the League of Nations ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1949
Extent:
4 files and volumes (1176 folios)

1397. IOR/R/15/2/602

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/602
Title:
File 20/1 II Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to a number of issues concerning the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region: Correspondence related to the League of Nations Advisory Committee of Experts, and its request for information about slavery in the Persian Gulf region. The papers include ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1937-21 Jul 1938
Extent:

1 volume (283 folios)

1398. IOR/R/15/2/603

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/603
Title:
File 20/1 III Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to a number of issues concerning the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region. The volume includes correspondence between the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Fowle), the Bahrain Political Agent (Hugh Weightman) and naval representati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1938-4 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 volume (286 folios)

1399. IOR/R/15/2/604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/604
Title:
File 20/1 IV Slave Trade in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region. A significant portion of the papers relate to allegations of slave trading into Qatar. In a letter dated 14 October 1945, Lady Kathleen Simon, a prominent representative of the Anti-Slavery Society, draw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1945-20 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (275 folios)

1400. IOR/R/15/2/605

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/605
Title:
‘File 21/1 I Zubarah’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence concerning the ongoing dispute between the Rulers of Bahrain and Qatar over the sovereignty of Zubarah and the surrounding area on the Qatar Peninsula. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Cornelius James Pelly; Lieuten...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1944-15 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 volume (230 folios)

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