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171. IOR/R/15/1/520

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/520
Title:
File 53/54 VII (D 150) Kuwait Blockade
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to a trading blockade imposed on Kuwait by Abdul Aziz ibn Abdulrahman ibn Faisal Al Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud)], the King of Saudi Arabia. The correspondence is primarily between British officials attempting t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1939-13 Jan 1940
Extent:
1 volume (227 folios)

172. IOR/R/15/1/521

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/521
Title:
File 53/54 VIII (D 162) Saudi-Kuwait Agreements
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials about negotiations between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia concerning the signing of three agreements between the two countries; a trade agreement, a Bon Voisinage agreement and an extradition agreement. Negotiations regarding whether certain...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Feb 1940-10 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)

173. IOR/R/15/1/533

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/533
Title:
File 53/83 III (D 113) Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding alleged smuggling activities from Kuwait into Iraq. Primarily, the file contains internal correspondence between British officials discussing efforts to resolve the issue. It also contains correspondence between British officials and their Iraqi coun...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1934-29 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 volume (235 folios)

174. IOR/R/15/1/534

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/534
Title:
File 53/83 IV (D 123) Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding alleged smuggling activities from Kuwait into Iraq. The correspondence discusses a number of topics including incursions into Kuwaiti territory made by Iraqi Customs and Police Forces, anti-Smuggling measures adopted by the Iraqi Government and negotia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1935-20 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 volume (264 folios)

175. IOR/R/15/1/538

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/538
Title:
File 53/83 VIII (D 153) Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding alleged smuggling activities from Kuwait into Iraq. The correspondence discusses a number of topics including incursions into Kuwaiti territory made by Iraqi Customs and Police Forces, arms smuggling, the demarcation of the Kuwait-Iraq frontier, the po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
31 Mar 1939-25 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 volume (225 folios)

176. IOR/R/15/1/616

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/616
Title:
File 78/1 II Pearl Fisheries
Scope & Content:
The Pearl Fisheries subject file contains correspondence and other papers relating to British concerns over the admission of foreign vessels into the Persian Gulf to fish on the pearling banks. At the front of the file are a number of fold-out maps (folios, 3, 5, 11 and 13) showing the locations...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Nov 1937-24 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (82 folios)

177. IOR/R/15/1/372

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/372
Title:
File 19/243 IV Zubarah
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence about on-going tensions between Bahrain and Qatar regarding the ownership of Zubarah after the Al Khalifa and Al Thani families had signed an agreement (mediated by the British) in 1944. The correspondence discusses disagreements between Bahrain and Qatar concer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1946-28 Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (161 folios)

178. IOR/R/15/1/415

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/415
Title:
File 35/86 VIII Muscat Treaty
Scope & Content:
This file consists of an envelope with a sealed document giving full powers to Lt Col Sir Trenchard Craven W Fowle to negotiate a new commercial treaty with Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr], Sultan of Muscat and Oman. The document is signed by King George VI and has his royal sea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 volume (5 folios)

179. IOR/R/15/1/751

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/751
Title:
Cable and Wireless Concession Agreement with Shaikh of Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file contains two copies of a concession agreement between Cable & Wireless Limited and the Government of Bahrain (represented by Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the ruler of Bahrain). The agreements (folios 5-18) were signed in the presence of Hugh Dunstan Rance, the British Politi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1947
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

180. IOR/R/15/1/726

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/726
Title:
Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Koweit [Kuwait] Affairs, 1896-1904
Scope & Content:
The volume is Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Koweit Affairs, 1896-1904 (Simla: G C Press, 1904). The volume contains a history of Kuwait, 1896-1904.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904
Extent:

1 volume (62 folios)