The records consist of one file only. This relates to improvements to the customs pier at Bahrain funded by a loan from Bahrain merchants. It includes a list of those merchants who made contributions.
The Office Instructions sub-sub-series consists of one file that contains correspondence between British officials regarding instructions and regulations for the various British agencies and offices in the Persian Gulf region. The issues discussed in the file include the use of demi-official co...
The records consist of one file only. The file relates to the correction of shortages in weights used by foreign shopkeepers and merchants in Bahrain, and the supply of sets of standard weights for the state.
The records consist of one file only. This relates to the succession to Sheikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa [‘Isá bin ‘Ali Al Khalifah] in Bahrain in 1914-17, and the recognition of his son Hamad as successor.
The records consist of the following miscellaneous files: miscellaneous official and demi-official correspondence relating to the outbreak of World War One and its impact on Bahrain, 1914-1917; reports from the Political Agent, Bahrain, to the Eastern Bureau, Basra 1916-1917; a file of miscella...
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 ...
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...
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...
Correspondence between Lt-Colonel Gordon Loch, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Major Claude Edward Bremner, Political Agent Muscat, concerning the Muscat State Council.