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1. IOR/R/15/2/497-504

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/497-504
Title:
File 12 Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The Confidential files contain correspondence regarding the following subjects: official visits to the Persian Gulf; arrangements for the coronation of King George VI; transmission of cyphers; resignation, leave and discharge of Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and Petroleum Company Limited (PC...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1945
Extent:
8 files and volumes (1763 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/605-615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/605-615
Title:
File 21 Qatar
Scope & Content:
The Qatar subject files comprise confidential correspondence and other papers, sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, relating to miscellaneous affairs concerning Qatar, including: ongoing disagreements between the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, and the Ruler...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1940-1949
Extent:
11 files and volumes (478 folios)

3. 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)

4. IOR/R/15/2/633-637

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/633-637
Title:
File 24: Passport Control
Scope & Content:
There are five surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about passport control at Bahrain. Each file contains correspondence and other papers relating to the handling of individual cases by the Political Agent, Bahrain, in cooperation with the Government ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1927-1947
Extent:
5 files (330 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/795-800

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/795-800
Title:
File 30 Middle East Policy
Scope & Content:
There are six surviving files containing correspondence, dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about various aspects of British policy in the Middle East. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Agent, Bahrain, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. There are seve...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1945-1950
Extent:
6 files (514 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/627-629

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/627-629
Title:
File 23 Intelligence
Scope & Content:
The Intelligence files of the Political Agency, Bahrain contain records of confidential information passed by various sources to the Political Agent, Bahrain. Most of the information is political intelligence relating to Saudi Arabia. There are only three files: reports of the activities of a n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1947
Extent:
3 files (200 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/294-341

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/294-341
Title:
File 8 Reports and Returns
Scope & Content:
The files consist of collated periodicals produced by various military and governmental offices and containing intelligence on a wide range of subjects, all of which were sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most of the files include the related correspondence. The geographic focus of the fil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1922-1950
Extent:
48 files (6052 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/853-857

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/853-857
Title:
File 36: United States Interests
Scope & Content:
This Sub-sub-series contains files related to the interests and activities of the United States of America in the Gulf. The topics discussed are as follows: the American Mission Hospital in Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/853); foreign consular activities, primarily the US' desire for the establishment of a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and German
Date Range:
1933-1949
Extent:
5 files (511 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/896-898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/896-898
Title:
File 41 Arms and Ammunition
Scope & Content:
The Arms and Ammunition subject files contain correspondence and papers relating to arms control, and incidents of arms theft or arms smuggling, occurring at Bahrain and elsewhere along the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf: arms licenses for the nakhudas of boats sailing on the Arab coast of the G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1945-1949
Extent:
3 files (207 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/461-483

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/461-483
Title:
File 11 Saudi Arabia
Scope & Content:
The Bahrain Political Agency confidential files on Saudi Arabia chiefly concern the relationship that Saudi Arabia and its Ruler ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (also known as Ibn Sa‘ūd) had with British-administered Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial shaikhdoms. The British Gov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1932-1950
Extent:
23 files and volumes (714 folios)