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1. IOR/R/15/5/179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/179
Title:
File 4/1 General Information regarding Kuwait and Hinterland
Scope & Content:
This file contains a number of reports concerning different aspects of life in Kuwait, including its geography, history, flora and fauna, weather, political administration and leading personalities. Unless otherwise stated, the reports' author is Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1948
Extent:
1 file (235 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/5/180

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/180
Title:
File 4/2 Ibn Sabah Family Tree and Kuwait Succession
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials that is all loosely related to the succession of the rulers of Kuwait and related matters of protocol. The file also contains a hand-written note of a declaration made by the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1921-10 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/5/181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/181
Title:
File 4/3 I Purchase of Saluting Gun, Aircraft, etc, by the Shaikh of Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the supply of arms and ammunition to the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah. Contrary to the file's title, the majority of this correspondence concerns the Shaikh's purchase of several Lewis Machine Guns (and am...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1929-4 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (221 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/182

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/182
Title:
File 4/4 Kuwait State: Education of Shaikh of Kuwait's son, Muhammad
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning plans for Muhammad Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, a son of the Ruler of Kuwait, Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, to study English in Britain. This correspondence is primarily between officials at the Political Residency in Bushire, the P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Sep 1932-25 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (60 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/5/183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/183
Title:
File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning issues related to the number of official gun salutes that the British Government assigned to rulers in the Persian Gulf as well as the titles that should be used for them in official correspondence. Specifically, the majorit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 May 1932-25 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (183 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/184

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/184
Title:
File 4/6 I Kuwait-Iraq Frontier
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the delineation of the borders between Kuwait and its neighbours, Iraq and Saudi Arabia (occasionally referred to as Nejd in the file). The primary correspondents in the file are officials from the British High Commission in Iraq, the Political Agenc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1931-7 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (371 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/185

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/185
Title:
File 4/6 II Kuwait-Iraq Frontier
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the demarcation of the Iraq-Kuwait frontier including issues related to a disagreement between the governments of Iraq and Kuwait regarding the location of a specific border marker, smuggling between the two countries and the development of Umm al-Qasr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Nov 1939-7 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (218 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/5/186

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/186
Title:
File 4/7 I Shaikh of Kuwait's Visits to Other Countries
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding official and unofficial trips abroad that were made by the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah. The correspondence relates to trips Shaikh Ahmad made to Iraq in 1929, 1932 (a detailed account of which is contained on folios 44-47), 1935 a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1929-27 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (228 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/187

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/187
Title:
File 4/7 II Shaikh of Kuwait's Visit to Arab States, Europe , Etc
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding proposed and actual trips abroad that were made by the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah. This includes details of plans that were made for trips to Egypt, India, Iraq and England that do not appear to have ultimately materialised, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1937-31 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (171 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/188

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/188
Title:
File 4/8 Kuwait Electricity Supply (Concession, etc.) & Municipality
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding internal developments in Kuwait. Primarily, the correspondence relates to the establishment of a municipality for Kuwait City, the construction of an electrical power station and the development of the Kuwait Electric Compan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1930-9 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)