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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Language Arabic Name Emir of Kuwait, 1718-

1. IOR/L/PS/10/48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/48
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 3-4 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 3 and 4 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/48/1) concerns the grant of a lease in October 1907 by the Shaikh of Kuwait [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] to the British Government of land on the foreshore of Kuwait at Bunder Shweikh [Bandar Shawaykh]. Par...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1901-1918
Extent:
1 volume (270 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/50

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/50
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 6-8 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 6, 7, and 8 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]: Part 6 (IOR/L/PS/10/50/1) concerns the status of citizens of Kuwait in Persia. Part 7 (IOR/L/PS/10/50/2) concerns the proposal that vessels from Kuwait should adopt a distinctive flag, and the likely reaction this would brin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1904-1908
Extent:
1 volume (324 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/606

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/606
Title:
File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists mainly of six bound compilations of treaties and undertakings, together with related correspondence and other supplementary material, made between the British Government and the British Protectorates of the Persian Gulf, 1820-1919. These treaty compilations were published by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1916-1928
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1003

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1003
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 15 'Oil. Koweit Neutral Zone. On concessions in.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns correspondence and records of meetings to discuss questions relating to oil in the Persian Gulf, including Kuwait and the Kuwait Neutral Zone, and also Bahrain and Qatar. This includes discussion of the history and status of the Neutral Zone between Nejd and Koweit [Kuwait] a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 May 1933-15 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 volume (488 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2856

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2856
Title:
Coll 17/8(4) 'Shaikh of Kuwait's date gardens: litigation in Iraq Courts regarding the Faddaghiyah estate'
Scope & Content:
This file is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2855. It contains papers regarding legal cases brought against the heirs of Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ (the Shaikh of Kuwait) by Abdullah bin Issa Pasha Al Zuhair, concerning the ownership of the date garden properties known as the Faddaghiyeh, the Bashiye...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1937-14 Sep 1943
Extent:
1 file (591 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3734

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3734
Title:
Coll 30/21(3) 'Persian Gulf: Kuwait-Saudi Relations: Blockade by Ibn Saud. Smuggling: Bon Voisinage and Extradition Agreements'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning a number of proposed agreements between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that were intended to formalise relations between the two countries and to end a trade blockade that had been imposed on Kuwait by Saudi Arabia. Much of the corr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1937-3 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (512 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3735

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3735
Title:
Coll 30/21(4) 'Persian Gulf: Koweit-Saudi relations. Trade, Bon Voisinage and Extradition Agreements. Desire of Ibn Saud to Establish Customs Post at Wafra'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning a number of agreements agreed between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in 1942 (and ratified in 1943). The agreements were intended to formalise relations between the two countries and to end a trade blockade that had been imposed o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1940-14 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3811

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3811
Title:
Coll 30/91(1) 'Koweit Oil Concession: Agreement between the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Kuwait Oil Company.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns negotiations over the signing of the commercial agreement between the Shaikh of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir as-Sabah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and the Kuwait Oil Company. The agreement provided the company with exclusive rights to exploit oil, gas, and petroleum products with...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1934-23 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 volume (477 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3812

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3812
Title:
Coll 30/91(2) 'Koweit Oil Concession: Agreement between the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Kuwait Oil Coy.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the negotiations concerning the signing of the commercial agreement between the Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait], Shaikh Ahmed al-Jabir as-Subah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and the Kuwait Oil Company in 1934. The Kuwait Oil Company was 50-50 owned by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1934-11 Oct 1935
Extent:
1 volume (390 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3824

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3824
Title:
Coll 30/104(2) 'Koweit Oil Concession: Operations of the Koweit Oil Company. (Provision of Motor Vehicles & Spares for Sheik of Koweit)'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the operations of the Kuwait Oil Company, from its initial explorations and discovery of commercial quantities of oil in Kuwait, to the suspension of the Company's operations during the Second World War (1939-45), and the resumption of its operations after the war. The main co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1935-20 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file, in 2 parts (373 folios)