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11. IOR/R/15/2/853-857

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/853-857
Title:
File 36: United States Interests
Scope & Content:
This Sub-sub-series contains files related to the interests and activities of the United States of America in the Gulf. The topics discussed are as follows: the American Mission Hospital in Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/853); foreign consular activities, primarily the US' desire for the establishment of a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and German
Date Range:
1933-1949
Extent:
5 files (511 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/2/896-898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/896-898
Title:
File 41 Arms and Ammunition
Scope & Content:
The Arms and Ammunition subject files contain correspondence and papers relating to arms control, and incidents of arms theft or arms smuggling, occurring at Bahrain and elsewhere along the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf: arms licenses for the nakhudas of boats sailing on the Arab coast of the G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1945-1949
Extent:
3 files (207 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/2/461-483

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)

14. IOR/R/15/2/616-625

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/616-625
Title:
File 22: Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
There are 10 surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about the conduct of British relations with the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Agent, Bahrain and his subordinates at the British Residency Agency...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1950
Extent:
10 files (791 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/2/538-542

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)

16. IOR/R/15/2/651-765

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651-765
Title:
File 28 [Second World] War
Scope & Content:
The Second World War subject files cover a wide range of topics affecting Bahrain in the time leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of, the Second World War. The files may be broadly arranged under the following categories: oil production at Bahrain, managed by the Bahrain Petroleum Compan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Italian
Date Range:
1930-1950
Extent:
115 files (13,409 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/2/801-813

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/801-813
Title:
File 31 Al Khalifa Family
Scope & Content:
The Al Khalifah subject files from 1931 contain correspondence and other papers relating to the Al Khalifah ruling family of Bahrain. The principal correspondents across these files are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-colonel Sir Trenchard Craven Fowle; Lieutenant-Colonel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1950
Extent:
13 files (932 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/2/505-537

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)

19. IOR/R/15/2/551-556

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)

20. IOR/R/15/2/766-794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/766-794
Title:
File 29 War: Food Supplies
Scope & Content:
The 29 surviving files about wartime food supplies contain the correspondence of the Political Agent for Bahrain with other British officials in the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and India, as well as rulers, officials and merchants in Bahrain, Dubai, Sharjah and Qatar. They discuss the maintena...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1940-1950
Extent:
29 files (5,479 folios)