Enclosures Nos. 3 and 4 to Despatch No. 2 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 9 January 1860. The Enclosures are dated 4-17 December 1860. Received 3 March 1860. The Enclosures consist of reports from Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan, Political Resident and Commandant, Aden, concer...
Enclosures Nos. 3-6 of Despatch No. 4 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 22 February 1860. The Enclosures are dated 17 January-13 February 1860. Received 21 March 1860. The Enclosures concern affairs in Abyssinia, and the intention of Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan, Political Re...
Enclosures Nos. 3-4 to Despatch No. 8 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 12 March 1860. The Enclosures are dated 13 February-12 March 1860. Received 5 April 1860. The Enclosures include a report by Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan, Political Resident and Commandant, Aden, on his t...
Enclosures Nos. 3-4 to Despatch No. 24 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 7 June 1860. The Enclosures are dated 13 April-30 May 1860. Received 12 July 1860. The Enclosures include a report from Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby, Consul and British Agent, Zanzibar, concer...
Enclosures nos. 3-8 to dispatch no. 1 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 12 January 1861. The enclosures are dated 9 November 1860-28 December 1860. Received 9 February 1861. The enclosures consist of reports by Captain Felix Jones, Political Resident, Persian Gulf, and resolution...
Enclosures nos. 3-6 to dispatch no. 10 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 12 April 1861. The enclosures are dated 22 February to 6 April 1861. Received 6 May 1861. The enclosures consist of reports from Captain Felix Jones, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and copies of res...
File 475/1916 'PERSIA: POLICY - 1916. The proposed Treaty of Alliance'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, telegrams, correspondence, memoranda, notes and printed papers in 1916 relating to the development of British policy towards Persia as well as the British relationship with Russia vis-à-vis its position and interests in Persia. The discussion in the v...
The volume comprises memoranda, notes, telegrams, correspondence and minutes, relating to the British Government’s policy on the future administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Selected papers of the War Cabinet’s Mesopotamia Administration Committee, and its successors the Middle East Committee an...
Coll 30/67 'Koweit & H.M.G.: Policy of H.M.G. in regard to relations with the Shaikh of Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns British Government (HMG) policy on relations with the Shaikh of Koweit [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Ruler of Kuwait]. The file contains correspondence, minutes and memoranda produced by senior officials at the Foreign Office and the India Office; the Political Resident in the Per...
Coll 30/83 'QATAR OIL CONCESSION, POLICY AND PROTECTION.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns British Government policy towards Qatar in the light of the bid by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) to obtain a concession from the Shaikh of Qatar (Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī]) to produce oil in the country. The British Government were keen...
