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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Language French Name Political Agent, Kuwait, 1904-1961

1. IOR/L/PS/10/47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/47
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 1-2 'Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/47/1) concerns the installation (and temporary withdrawal) of a Political Agent at Kuwait. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/47/2) concerns proposals for, and the eventual establishment of, a Post Office in Kuwait. Each...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1899-1915
Extent:
1 volume (298 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/51
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 9-10 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 9 and 10 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]: Part 9 (IOR/L/PS/10/51/1) concerns the rights of the Ruler of Kuwait to the islands of Bubiyan, Warba, and Umkasr [Umm Qaşr]. Part 10 (IOR/L/PS/10/51/2) concerns the Ruler of Kuwait's relations with the Ottoman Empire, and his ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1903-1912
Extent:

1 volume (314 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/112
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 3 'Arms Traffic:- Koweit Trade.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the work of British political and naval authorities in the Persian Gulf in suppressing the trafficking arms and ammunition, particularly from Muscat to Koweit [Kuwait]. Included are reports of searches undertaken on vessels suspected of trafficking of arms, including invento...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Apr 1900-15 Jun 1914
Extent:
1 volume (358 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/235
Title:
File 868/1912 Pt 1 'Arms traffic: arrangements at Muscat for its regulation'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports and a press cutting relating to the arms traffic in Muscat and arrangements for its regulation. Issues discussed include: negotiations between the Foreign Office, India Office and the Sultan of Muscat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1910-1912
Extent:
1 volume (225 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/384
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf Situation in El Katr Policy towards Bin Saud'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains part 1 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. It concerns Britain's relations with Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] following the latter's occupation of Ottoman-ruled El Hassa [Al Hasa] and Nejd [Najd]. Much of the correspondence is concerned with how B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 May 1913-15 Dec 1913
Extent:
1 volume (155 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/385

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/385
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf Situation in El Katr Policy towards Bin Saud'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains part 2 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. It primarily concerns British policy towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] following the latter's occupation of Ottoman-ruled El Hassa [Al Hasa]. Included in the volume are the following: an account of a ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Nov 1913-22 Nov 1916
Extent:
1 volume (269 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/1247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1247
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 16 'Iraq-Nejd Frontier: Bon Voisinage agreement between Iraq & Nejd'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns negotiations over the signing of a friendship and bon voisinage [border co-operation] agreement between the Kingdom of Iraq, and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (usually referred to separately as Hejaz or Nejd), following the suppression by the Hejaz Government of the Akhwan [I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jan 1930-1 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (926 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/1966

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1966
Title:
Coll 5/20 ‘Air Route to India – Arab Coast Secn: Negotiations with Trucial Sheikhs’
Scope & Content:
The file is largely made up of correspondence, with occasional internal India Office notes, and records of inter-departmental meetings. The subject matter is the establishment of an aerodrome on the Trucial Coast to facilitate the transfer of Imperial Airways' Europe-India route from Southern Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1932-6 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (636 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2071

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2071
Title:
Coll 6/8(1) 'Printed Series: 1929 to 1938.'
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Jan 1929-15 Jan 1938
Extent:
1 volume (527 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2130
Title:
Coll 6/63 'SOUTH EASTERN ARABIA AND QATAR BOUNDARIES.'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the eastern boundary of Saudi Arabia and the southern boundary of Qatar. Much of the correspondence discusses the legal and international position of what is referred to as the 'blue line' (the frontier which marked the Ottoman Government's renunciation of its claims to B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Jan 1923-12 Jun 1934
Extent:
1 volume (374 folios)