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Coll 30/91(1) 'Koweit Oil Concession: Agreement between the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Kuwait Oil Company.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns negotiations over the signing of the commercial agreement between the Shaikh of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir as-Sabah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and the Kuwait Oil Company. The agreement provided the company with exclusive rights to exploit oil, gas, and petroleum products with...
Coll 30/197 ‘Persian Gulf. Special War Measures – Allocation of war-time expenditure. Appt. of Political Officer on Trucial Coast & addtl staff in the Gulf. Inc. Censorship (staff) Arrangements’
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The file contains papers relating to special measures, mainly consisting of the recruitment of extra staff, taken by British authorities in the Persian Gulf in the event of war and during the Second World War. These special measures included the appointment of a Political Officer for the Trucial...
Coll 30/200 ‘Persian Gulf. Tour of Political Resident from Bahrein to Muscat in L. T. Nearchus.’
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The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to: a tour of Muscat by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and HM Consul-General, Bushire, in February 1940; his journey from Muscat to Bahrein [Bahrain] in the ship LT [Lighthouse Tender] Ne...
Coll 34/9 'Slavery: Slavery Convention: Position of certain independent States in relation to:'
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Correspondence regarding the position of independent Indian States with regard to the 1926 'International Convention with the object of Securing the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade', a copy of which is found on folios 27-32. The correspondence is between: Government of India, Foreign an...
Coll 35/2(2) 'Transmission of air mail bags to and from Persian Gulf'
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The file concerns the dispatch of air mail diplomatic bags to and from Persian Gulf. The file covers the proposal to send Persian Gulf mail by RAF from Bahrain, in 1944. The file is composed of correspondence between the Air Ministry, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, the Secretary ...
Coll 44/16 ‘Persian Gulf. Introduction of an export licensing system. Regulation made under Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council (1939).’
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The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to the introduction of an export licensing system for Arab countries in the Persian Gulf during the Second World War. The papers notably cover the following: The Bahrain (also written in the file as Bahrein) Petroleum Compa...
Mr Rothery's report to the Treasury in respect to the Muscat subsidy and Zanzibar Agency Expenses
Scope & Content:
A printed memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 27 September 1876. The memorandum discusses the views of Henry Cadogan Rothery on whether the Imperial Government had to contribute to the payment of an ann...
Letter from Louis Mallet, Under-Secretary of State for India, to Robert Bourke, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
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The letter outlines the opinion of the India Office that no negotiations should be opened with the Turkish authorities over more clearly defined areas of jurisdiction and responsibility for the two powers along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf. It is argued that Britain should maintain the...
'NOTES ON THE ISLANDS OF BAHRAIN AND ANTIQUITIES BY CAPTAIN E. L. DURAND, 1ST ASSISTANT RESIDENT, PERSIAN GULF.'
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Letter No. 164 from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Her British Majesty's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Alfred Comyn Lyall, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, 1 May 1879, enclosing notes on the islands of Bahrain and Antiquities, written by Edward Law ...
Middle East Committee. Note Prepared for Meeting of 12 January 1918. Policy in regard to Bin Saud
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This printed memorandum is a note, dated 10 January 1918, prepared by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Political Department of the India Office, for a meeting of the Middle East Committee on 12 January 1918, concerning British policy towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd ...
