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1241. IOR/R/15/1/471-549

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/471-549
Title:
File 53: Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The Kuwait subject files cover a comprehensive range of topics related to Kuwait and the surrounding area. The files contain correspondence regarding the nature and development of the British Government's involvement in Kuwait, Kuwait's foreign relations (notably with the Ottoman Empire, Najd/Sa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Turkish
Date Range:
1896-1939
Extent:
79 files and volumes (16,694 folios)

1242. IOR/R/15/1/472

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/472
Title:
File 53/6 (D 2) Koweit [Kuwait] Affairs, 1898-1899
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between various British officials (and correspondence directly between British officials and members of the Al Sabah ruling family of Kuwait including Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ) concerning the nature of the relationship between the British Government and Kuwait. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
27 Dec 1898-2 Aug 1899
Extent:
1 volume (280 folios)

1243. IOR/R/15/1/479

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/479
Title:
File 53/7 VI (D 9) Koweit [Kuwait] affairs - Arab Tribes, 1907-1911
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding political affairs in Kuwait and its vicinity. The correspondence discusses developments in the conflict between Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal Al Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud)] an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
3 Jan 1907-16 Mar 1911
Extent:
1 file (335 folios)

1244. IOR/R/15/1/507

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/507
Title:
File 53/33 II (D 15) Koweit Baghdad Railway
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning the construction of a railway line between Koweit [Kuwait] and Baghdad as a part of the German Government's broader effort to construct a railway connecting Berlin to Baghdad. The correspondence discusses the route of the lin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Jun 1907-18 Aug 1908
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)

1245. IOR/R/15/1/532

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/532
Title:
File 53/83 II (D 105) Smuggling Between 'Iraq + Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding alleged smuggling activities from Kuwait into Iraq. Primarily, the file contains internal correspondence between British officials but it also includes correspondence between British officials and Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, the ruler of Kuwait. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
29 May 1934-29 Nov 1934
Extent:
1 volume (246 folios)

1246. IOR/R/15/1/538

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/538
Title:
File 53/83 VIII (D 153) Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding alleged smuggling activities from Kuwait into Iraq. The correspondence discusses a number of topics including incursions into Kuwaiti territory made by Iraqi Customs and Police Forces, arms smuggling, the demarcation of the Kuwait-Iraq frontier, the po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
31 Mar 1939-25 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 volume (225 folios)

1247. IOR/R/15/1/546

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/546
Title:
File 53/89 II (D 169) Kuwait Education
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence between British officials regarding the development of education in Kuwait, with an emphasis on the role played by the British Council. The volume contains a number of reports on education in Kuwait authored by F J Wakelin, the Educational Adviser to the Gov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
22 Feb 1941-13 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 volume (263 folios)

1248. IOR/R/15/1/552

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/552
Title:
File 59/15 B (A 14) Muscat: slave trade under cover of French flag
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to competing British and French interests in Muscat and Oman at the beginning of the twentieth century. The principal point of contention between British officials, represented by Percy Cox (Muscat Political Agent 1899-1903), was the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Jan 1902-21 Mar 1904
Extent:
1 volume (163 folios)

1249. IOR/R/15/1/554

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/554
Title:
File 60/20 I (C 93) Imperial Bank of Iran: Bahrain, etc
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to banking in Persia, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Ministry in Tehran, the Government of India, High Commissioner in Iraq (later the British Ambassador), Political Residency in Bushire, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Jan 1918-Feb 1946
Extent:
1 volume (201 folios)

1250. IOR/R/15/1/554-555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/554-555
Title:
File 60: Financial
Scope & Content:
There are two surviving files in the ‘Financial’ subject category. The earlier file, which is a bound volume, contains correspondence about banking in Persia, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, particularly the rival operations of the Eastern Bank, the Imperial Bank of Persia (later the Imperial...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1918-1946
Extent:
2 files and volumes (205 folios)

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