This file contains correspondence regarding smuggling from Kuwait into Iraq. The correspondence covers a number of topics including discussions regarding the current level of smuggling activity between the two countries, incursions into Kuwaiti territory made by Iraqi Customs and Police Forces, ...
File 53/88 (D 157) Shaikh of Kuwait's Visit to England
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding trips abroad made by Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, the ruler of Kuwait. Much of the correspondence concerns an unofficial trip that Shaikh Aḥmad made to England in 1935 during which he met King George V. On his return from t...
‘File 61/31 III (D 118) Anglo-Saudi frontier negotiations’
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The volume’s letters, telegrams and memoranda relate to ongoing negotiations between the British Government and the Government of Saudi Arabia over the latter’s territorial borders. The chief correspondents in the file are Andrew Ryan, British Minister at Jeddah, George Rendell, Eastern Departme...
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident at Bushire and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) in regard to APOC's interest on the Hasa oil concession.
File 60/13 VI Statements of Expenditure under Office Allowance and Other Contract Grants
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The volume contains completed statements of monthly expenditure incurred by the Khorramshar Office under the Annual Office Allowance and other contract grants, including the Annual Launch Allowance, for April 1940 - July 1945 inclusive, with covering letters from the Secretary to the Political Re...
The volume contains correspondence relating to Shaikh Nāṣir bin Mubarak Āl Khalīfah's claim on Bahrain, and his subsequent attempts at reconciliation with the Bahrain ruler Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah. The principal correspondents in the file are Captain Francis Prideaux, Political Agent at...
File No: E.7. Qatar & Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1913
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This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bahrain, Bushire, and the Foreign Department of the Government of India and Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, as well as reports by Yūsuf bin Aḥmad Kanoo. These correspondence and reports concern Britain's relations with the Āl T...
File H/4 Persian Gulf Residency Bushire Office Records. Miscellaneous D/O's
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This file contains miscellaneous demi-official correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain and the British Political Resident at Bushire, as well as with the British Political Agent at Kuwait and Sheikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah. This correspondence concerns various issues rel...
File V/11 Clearance Papers for Sailing Craft Leaving Bahrain
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This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; ‘Abd al-Ḥusayn, the interpreter of the British Political Agency at Bahrain; Jāsim al-Chirāwī; Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah, ruler of Bahrain; and S...
'Cairo: Reports, Notes, Copies of Correspondence regarding Arabian Affairs, Policy Etc'
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The file contains copies of miscellaneous confidential correspondence emanating from the Cairo Residency and the Arab Bureau, Cairo and circulated to Persian Gulf Agencies for information, December 1918 - May 1920, including report of the Residency, Cairo on the grant of subsidies to Arab rulers...
