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11. IOR/R/15/2/616-625

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/616-625
Title:
File 22: Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
There are 10 surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about the conduct of British relations with the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Agent, Bahrain and his subordinates at the British Residency Agency...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1950
Extent:
10 files (791 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/2/538-542

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/538-542
Title:
File 14 Foreign Interests
Scope & Content:
The files contain correspondence, notes, and memoranda exchanged between various British Government offices, regional governments, and representatives of several commercial companies and other institutions. Many of the files relate to the activities and employment of foreign nationals (American, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1936-1949
Extent:
5 files (105 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/2/651-765

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651-765
Title:
File 28 [Second World] War
Scope & Content:
The Second World War subject files cover a wide range of topics affecting Bahrain in the time leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of, the Second World War. The files may be broadly arranged under the following categories: oil production at Bahrain, managed by the Bahrain Petroleum Compan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Italian
Date Range:
1930-1950
Extent:
115 files (13,409 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/2/801-813

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/801-813
Title:
File 31 Al Khalifa Family
Scope & Content:
The Al Khalifah subject files from 1931 contain correspondence and other papers relating to the Al Khalifah ruling family of Bahrain. The principal correspondents across these files are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-colonel Sir Trenchard Craven Fowle; Lieutenant-Colonel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1950
Extent:
13 files (932 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/2/505-537

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/505-537
Title:
File 13 Aviation
Scope & Content:
The confidential aviation subject files cover a range of topics related to the operation and maintenance by the British authorities of civil air operations in the Persian Gulf, concentrating chiefly on the Arab coast of the Gulf, and the aerodromes at Muharraq Island in Bahrain, and Sharjah, as ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1932-1950
Extent:
33 volumes and files (3,202 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/2/766-794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/766-794
Title:
File 29 War: Food Supplies
Scope & Content:
The 29 surviving files about wartime food supplies contain the correspondence of the Political Agent for Bahrain with other British officials in the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and India, as well as rulers, officials and merchants in Bahrain, Dubai, Sharjah and Qatar. They discuss the maintena...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1940-1950
Extent:
29 files (5,479 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/2/573-587

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/573-587
Title:
File 18 Judicial
Scope & Content:
The Judicial files each relate to a separate issue. The main categories are: Penal matters (IOR/R/15/2/573, IOR/R/15/2/587); the framing, application and interpretation of judicial legislation governing a variety of matters, including the question of British jurisdiction over American nationals ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Spanish
Date Range:
1933-1950
Extent:

15 files (824 folios)

18. 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)

19. IOR/R/15/2/177-179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/177-179
Title:
File 2 Books and Publications
Scope & Content:
The Books and Publications files of the Political Agency, Bahrain contain two kinds of material: files concerning publicity in newspapers and journals about Bahrain and affairs in the wider Persian Gulf, much of it deriving from the Arabic language press and much if it of a sensitive or critic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1934-1946
Extent:
3 files (938 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/2/861-872

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/861-872
Title:
File 38: Petroleum Concessions Limited
Scope & Content:
The files and volumes contain correspondence and memoranda relating to the work of Petroleum Concessions Limited and their subsidiaries, Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited, and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited, in the Persian Gulf ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1950
Extent:
12 files and volumes (1149 folios)