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

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/497-504
Title:: File 12 Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:: The Confidential files contain correspondence regarding the following subjects: official visits to the Persian Gulf; arrangements for the coronation of King George VI; transmission of cyphers; resignation, leave and discharge of Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and Petroleum Company Limited (PC...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1933-1945
Extent:: 8 files and volumes (1763 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/505-537
Title:: File 13 Aviation
Scope & Content:: The confidential aviation subject files cover a range of topics related to the operation and maintenance by the British authorities of civil air operations in the Persian Gulf, concentrating chiefly on the Arab coast of the Gulf, and the aerodromes at Muharraq Island in Bahrain, and Sharjah, as ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1932-1950
Extent:: 33 volumes and files (3,202 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/538-542
Title:: File 14 Foreign Interests
Scope & Content:: The files contain correspondence, notes, and memoranda exchanged between various British Government offices, regional governments, and representatives of several commercial companies and other institutions. Many of the files relate to the activities and employment of foreign nationals (American, ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1936-1949
Extent:: 5 files (105 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/543-550
Title:: File 15 Miscellaneous Reports
Scope & Content:: The files in this sub-sub series are categorised as miscellaneous reports; they cover diverse topics such as the ownership of islands in the Gulf as well as the leading personalities and tribes of Abu Dhabi, Buraimi and British Somaliland. The files include discussion of: the geographical charac...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1930-1949
Extent:: 8 files (566 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/551-556
Title:: File 16 Shipping
Scope & Content:: The 'Shipping' files consist of six surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about the passage of shipping in the Persian Gulf. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf; and the Pol...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1933-1946
Extent:: 6 files (700 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/557-572
Title:: File 17 Posts and Telegraphs
Scope & Content:: The Posts and Telegraphs sub-sub-series discusses matters relating to wireless telegraphy, postal services and other communications matters affecting Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, particularly during the Second World War. Included in the sub-sub-series are discussions around exist...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 1932-1949
Extent:: 16 files and volumes (1513 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/573-587
Title:: File 18 Judicial
Scope & Content:: The Judicial files each relate to a separate issue. The main categories are: Penal matters (IOR/R/15/2/573, IOR/R/15/2/587); the framing, application and interpretation of judicial legislation governing a variety of matters, including the question of British jurisdiction over American nationals ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1933-1950
Extent:: 15 files (824 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/588-600
Title:: File 19 Travellers and Tourists
Scope & Content:: The confidential subject series, entitled Travellers and Tourists, comprises files pertaining to the visits of a variety of travellers and dignitaries – both British and foreign – to the Gulf region, or to specific places along the Arab coast of the Gulf, usually Bahrain. Most of the files are de...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1931-1950
Extent:: 13 files (466 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/601-604
Title:: File 20 Slavery: Slave Trade in the Gulf
Scope & Content:: These slavery files consist of confidential correspondence sent to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, relating to the nature and extent of slavery and the slave trade in the Gulf region. The files contain: reports and statistical data on the slave trade, gathered for the League of Nations ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1931-1949
Extent:: 4 files and volumes (1176 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/605-615
Title:: File 21 Qatar
Scope & Content:: The Qatar subject files comprise confidential correspondence and other papers, sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, relating to miscellaneous affairs concerning Qatar, including: ongoing disagreements between the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, and the Ruler...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1940-1949
Extent:: 11 files and volumes (478 folios)

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