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Coll 17/30(1) ‘Iraq. Proposed additional outlet to the sea, in or near Koweit territory. Development of port at Um Qasr.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the proposed construction of a port in Kuwait (Koweit) Bay, and the construction of a port in Um Qasr Creek. The papers mostly concern the following: The attitude of HM Government towards the proposal of the Government of Iraq for the extension of the Iraqi ...
Hostilities between the Imam of Muscat and the Shah of Persia, and Persian Actions in relation to Bahrein
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 104 of 1848, dated 2 December 1848. The enclosures are numbered 3-16 and are dated 1 August to 18 November 1848. They consist of corresp...
Coll 29/2(2) 'Transfer of Bushire Residency to Bahrain: selection of site and construction of buildings'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the transfer of the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf from Bushire to Bahrain. The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between British officials including Central Public Works Department (A Croad), India Office officials (John Charles Walton, R Peel, E P D...
Contemplated operations to the Westward of the Indus
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Enclosures no. 2-113 to dispatch no. 23 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 24 September 1838. The enclosures are dated 3 July-24 September 1838. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to preparations for the East India Company’s invasion of Afghanistan in ord...
‘Précis of correspondence relating to Zanzibar affairs from 1856 to 1872. Prepared by Captain P D Henderson, attached to the Foreign Department’
Scope & Content:
The file is a précis of correspondence related to affairs at Zanzibar between the years 1856 and 1872, prepared by Captain Philip Durham Henderson of the Foreign Department in the Government of India. The contents of the précis, which includes reports from Christopher Palmer Rigby, the British C...
Coll 6/93(2) 'SYRIA: Situation in – after capitulation of France, 1940. Incl. Proclamation of Independence.'
Scope & Content:
Following on from an earlier file (IOR/L/PS/12/2166), this file concerns British policy relating to Syria, following the success of the British-Free French military campaign in Syria [Operation Exporter]. (The abbreviation 'Incl.' in the title stands for 'Including'). The date range of this fil...
Measures Adopted for Suppressing the 'Slave Trade'
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 107 of 1847, dated 31 December 1847. The enclosures relate to British attempts to suppress the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people]....
Coll 6/67(4) 'Boundaries of South Eastern Arabia and Qatar.'
Scope & Content:
This file primarily concerns British policy regarding the eastern and south-eastern boundaries of Saudi Arabia, specifically those bordering Qatar, Abu Dhabi, and Muscat (i.e. the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman). Much of the correspondence relates to British concerns that the boundaries should be...
This volume compiles printed copies of letters, telegrams, memoranda and newspaper extracts relating to Britain's involvement across the Arabian Peninsula during the period 1929-1938. Whilst the correspondence encompasses all matters concerning British interests in the region, much of it relates...
This item consists of a despatch to the Secret Committee, 18 July 1839, from John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai], containing a series of numbered enclosures. The despatch itself (not included) is numbered 1 and is followed by an abstract of contents, numbered 2....
