This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government; the Political Department of the Government of India; Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah; ...
The file concerns the agreement reached between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia (with the consent of Bahrain) on transit dues at Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein). The correspondence is mainly between the Political Agent, Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch), and the Assistant Politi...
The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the India Office, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent in Bahrain with the Shaikh of Qatar, the Foreign Office, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) on the borders of Qatar, the oil concession and the relation...
‘File 13/23 Survey of P.G. [Persian Gulf] Aerodromes’
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The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the arrival in Bahrain in January 1947, of a survey party, who are touring the head of the Persian Gulf to assess the region’s aerodromes. The principal correspondents in the file are the Bahrain Political Agent, Captain Hug...
The file comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Charles Geoffrey Prior), Political Agent at Bahrain (Reginald George Evelin Alban, Edward Birkbeck Wakefield), the Sub-Postmaster at Bahrain, Secretary to the External Affairs Department of the Government of In...
This file contains correspondence from the British Consulate General at Bushire and the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the activities of Felix Valyi, a Hungarian Orientalist. In particular, are details of his plan for a 'world university' in Greece and a 'Council of Higher Learning in the ...
The volume comprises applications made by individuals in Bahrain (chiefly employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company, BAPCO) for emergency commission to the military forces, and correspondence concerning official policy towards volunteers for military duty, and proposals for the introduction in ...
File 39/8 Oil Development, Middle East: Trans-Arabian pipe line
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The file contains correspondence between the Government of India, the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Fuel and Power and the Political Resident at Bahrain about American interest in Middle East oil. The correspondence discusses a Trans-Arabian oil pipeline to the Mediterranean ...
The file contains correspondence, primarily between Anglo Persian Oil Company's (APOC) managers, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Residency Agent at Sharjah and the Political Agent at Bahrain, regarding APOC's oil storage at Sharjah. There is also correspondence with in Arabic be...
File No. 13/3-ii. SHARJAH AIR AGREEMENT (Aerodrome Facilities at Sharjah).
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The file comprises a signed copy of the Sharjah Civil Air Agreement with accompanying air navigation regulations, and an exchange of letters between the Shaikh of Sharjah (Shaikh Saqr bin Sulṭān Āl Qasimī) and the Political Officer on the Trucial Coast (Arthur John Wilton). Also included in th...
