File 18/12 'Accommodation for the Staff of the Hon'ble the Political Resident when on Tour at Bahrain'
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This file contains correspondence regarding the rental of residential properties in Bahrain for the use of the staff of the Political Resident while on tour in the country. The correspondence is between officials at the Political Residency in Bushire, the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Manama ...
File 10/12 Desert news: defeat of Ikhwan by Ibn Sa`ud (Battle of Sibilla, 1929); operations against rebels
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This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and related political developments. Specifically, the correspondence in the file relates to tribal movements and disturbances in and around t...
File 4/22 I Construction of a Port in Kuwait Bay under Iraqi Control; Extension of the Iraqi Railway; Umm Qasr
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This file contains correspondence between British officials in Kuwait, Iraq, Britain and India concerning the political implications and practical logistics regarding a proposal to construct a port under Iraqi control in Kuwaiti territory (and a related proposal to link the port to Basra by rail...
Volume of incoming copy correspondence to William Bruce, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf from various correspondents within the East India Company discussing financial, administrative and political matters relating to the running of the residency at Bushire. Particular attention throughou...
This file consists of letters received by David Wilson, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, from William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay, and Charles Norris, Acting Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay. The letters cover the following subjects: the concerns of Mahomed B...
The volume contains letters received at Bushire from William Sowden Collinson, the Commodore of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, stationed at Bassadore [Bāsaʻīdū], and the Government of Bombay. The correspondence pertains to political affairs along the Arab Gulf coast, particularly...
The file contains an exchange of letters between British Government officials in India and London, copied to Lieutenant H D Robertson (Officiating British Resident in the Persian Gulf) for his information and guidance. The letters often refer to the regular reports submitted by the British Resid...
The volume's correspondence and other papers document British officials' attempts to suppress the slave trade in the Gulf, and their procedures for dealing with liberated slaves. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Captain Felix Jones), H. L. ...
The volume contains correspondence relating to incidents of kidnapping in the Trucial Coast region. The correspondence for each incident was probably compiled at a later date, drawing together extracts from other Bushire subject files, in particular the Sharjah diary subject file (identified as ...
This file contains reports and correspondence relating to an attack on British soldiers by Arab inhabitants of Dubai. The reports and correspondence are mainly between Lieutenant-Colonel P. Z. Cox (Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and His British Majesty's Consul General), The Secretary to...
