Language: English / Level: [38] SubSubSeries - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/342-387
Title:: File 9 Trade and Commerce
Scope & Content:: The forty-six volumes and files forming the 'Trade and Commerce' subject files were produced by the Confidential Office at the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most of the files and volumes date from 1928-1950. The 'Trade and Commerce' subject files mainly contain correspondence between the Polit...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1928-1950
Extent:: 46 files and volumes (4028 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/388-460
Title:: File 10 Oil and Minerals
Scope & Content:: The 73 volumes and files forming the 'Oil and Minerals' subject files were produced by the Confidential Office at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The majority of the files and volumes date from 1932-1951 except for IOR/R/15/2/411, containing documents from 1916. The 'Oil and Minerals' subjec...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1916-1950
Extent:: 73 files and volumes (12,321 folios)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/484-496
Title:: File 12 Persian Relations with Bahrain
Scope & Content:: These files contain correspondence concerning a number of issues related to Persia and Persians (primarily the Persian community in Bahrain). The files discuss Persia's claim to sovereignty over Bahrain (IOR/R/15/1/484), Persian communities on the Arab side of the Gulf, particularly Bahrain (I...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Farsi, and French
Date Range:: 1932-1950
Extent:: 13 files (970 folios)

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)

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)

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)

Search