The bulk of the surviving Miscellaneous subject files is made up of routine correspondence, exchanged with a number of organisations, many of which are of a governmental or commercial nature: the American Mission in Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/1493-1494); the Bahrain office of the shipping agent Mesopot...
The Foreign Interests sub-sub-series contains files related to the interests and activities of foreign states in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the wider Gulf region. The files relate to the United States of America (IOR/R/15/6/145-147,174,179), France (IOR/R/15/6/148-151), Germany (IOR/...
The Miscellaneous sub-sub-series consists of three files concerning the following subjects: The purchase of a number of boats by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman The Bretton Woods Agreement and its applicability in the Persian Gulf An incident in which an Egyptian-owned merchant vessel named Star o...
The Aviation sub-sub-series comprises three files regarding the Sharjah and Dubai Civil Air Agreements. This sub-sub-series was created on 1 January 1951 with the introduction of a new Foreign Office filing system. The previous Aviation files up to 31 December 1950 can be found at IOR/R/15/2/505-...
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...
There are five surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about passport control at Bahrain. Each file contains correspondence and other papers relating to the handling of individual cases by the Political Agent, Bahrain, in cooperation with the Government ...
Papers and correspondence about staff at the Political Agency at Kuwait, and at the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf and British Consulate in Bushire. Most correspondence deals with changes in staff. Some of the correspondence concerning staff members at the Kuwait Agency is of a personal...