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

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/180-194
Title:: File 3: Staff
Scope & Content:: The Staff files contain details regarding various positions within or reporting to the Bahrain Political Agency, including: Assistant Political Agent; Political Officer on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah; Agency Medical Officer; Censor Clerk; Upper Air Observatory staff; Post Office staff; Public Wo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1931-1949
Extent:: 15 files (838 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/195-210
Title:: File 4 Bahrain State
Scope & Content:: The Bahrain State files contain correspondence regarding a number of different topics that relate to the development of the state of Bahrain, the running of its government and its finances. The files cover financial information and the development of state services (IOR/R/15/2/195-198), educati...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1933-1945
Extent:: 16 files (3,575 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/211-228
Title:: File 5 Naval and Marine
Scope & Content:: The Naval and Marine files of the Political Agency, Bahrain contain files concerning: ports and anchorages at Bahrain; movements of British naval ship and non-military ships in the Persian Gulf; visits of United States naval vessels to Bahrain; lighting and buoying; the establishment of the Jufai...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1932-1949
Extent:: 18 files (901 folios)

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)

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