The volume contains manuscript draft biographical notes on Persian statesmen and notables compiled by George Percy Churchill. Many of the notes are accompanied by imprints of the subject's seal and signature (in Persian); some by typescript pages, extracts from published works and newspaper cut...
‘File B/9 I (30/9-II) Residency Agent, Sharjah’s News Reports’
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The file contains a series of bi-monthly news summaries about events in Trucial Oman, for the years 1935 and 1936, compiled by the Residency Agent, Sharjah and sent to the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. The news summaries are also referred to ...
[Un-numbered file] Export of Currency notes from BAHRAIN
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The file contains letters sent by merchants, banks and companies to the Bahrain Political Agency asking the Agency to grant them export licences for the shipment of currency notes from one place to another, from one bank to another, or from one company to a bank. The main correspondents are the A...
The volume comprises correspondence relating to the crisis in Britain’s relations with Persia in the early 1840s, in the wake of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42) and the siege of Herat (1838), which led to British occupation of the island of Karrak [Jazīreh-ye Khārk] in the Persian Gulf. Th...
Political Department 1854/55 Bushire Residency Persia and Persian Coast
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The file contains letters mainly received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf regarding Persia and the Persian coast of the Gulf, from the Secretaries to the Government at Bombay Castle. There are also two documents which become part of the file at a later stage, in 1856; they were both proclama...
14/225 I B 37 Unrest at Dubai and Trucial Coast Policy
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Correspondence dealing with the unrest at Dubai due to the attempts on the life of Shaikh Sa'id bin Maktum by his cousins Shaikhs Rashid and Buti and their efforts to usurp him. The file includes a genealogical map of the family of Shaikh Sa'id bin Maktoum. Letters discuss how the British govern...
File 14/262 Camel dispute between Shaikhs of Dubai and Abu Dhabi
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This file concerns a conflict between Abu Dhabi and Dubai over their eastern border and consists of correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain (William Rupert Hay; A.C. Galloway); Political Agent, Bahrain (Cornelius James Pelly); Residency Agent, Sharjah (Jasim ...
This file contains correspondence between various British officials regarding political affairs in Kuwait. The file includes copies of direct correspondence between Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ, the ruler of Kuwait and British officials regarding Mubarak's desire for British protection and the natu...
File 61/19 I (D 68) Bin Saud. Supply of personnel and aircraft
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The volume contains correspondence relating to the institution and maintenance of a Hejaz Air Force by British Government officials based in the Gulf region and in London. In late 1929 the British Government authorised the sale of four Wapati planes, 1000 twenty-pound bombs and other equipment t...
(F 69) File 82/26 A.P.O.C. - Muscat Oil Concession
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The volume contains correspondence, telegrams and notes of meetings between the Political Agent at Muscat and the Political Resident at Bahrain and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives regarding geologic surveys of Dhofar, Massirah and Batinah, Muskat, in Oman, and Gwadar, in Pakista...
