‘File 16/64 Correspondence regarding indents placed on companies in India by the Executive Engineer, Persian Gulf Division’
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Two items of correspondence addressed to the Executive Engineer of the Independent Persian Gulf Sub Division at Bushire, from the shipping agent Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company, who write in their capacity as agents for Jenson & Nicholson (India) Limited. Both letters, which bear Jenson &am...
‘File 20/2 Ceremonials & Honours. DEATHS IN ROYAL FAMILY AND OF OTHER BIG PERSONS’
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The file contains telegrams announcing the deaths of members of the British Royal Family, British Government officials and ruling families and presidents of other countries, and their funerals. Among those who passed away in the Royal Family are the Empress Maria of Russia, aunt of King George V...
File 28/5 II Visit of Tankers etc to Sitrah & Shipments of oil (Royalty Tickets)
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The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) and Gray, Mackenzie & Co. on shipments of oil from Sitrah terminus. The...
‘File XXXVIII/3 SUR AFFAIRS. SUR & THE AMIRS OF JA‘ALAN. 1927 to oct: 1928.’
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The volume starts with an index (ff 4-8) which lists the subjects of the correspondence in the volume. The correspondence in the volume is in the form of letters, telegrams and reports related to the internal affairs taking place at Sur and the involvement of various tribes in those affairs, mai...
‘File 2/19 II. AVIATION. B. ROYAL AIR FORCE. (3i) R.A.F. Landing Ground at Ras Al Had.’
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The file includes correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters and memoranda related to the establishment and the later evacuation of the landing ground at Ras Al-Hadd (Also Ras Al-Had). Folios 1 to 19 are all dated 1930, and they include correspondence between the Air Headquarters, Britis...
'File 2/40 COPIES OF MUSCAT CIVIL AGREEMENT AS PRESENTED TO HIS HIGHNESS FROM TIME TO TIME. FINAL AGREEMENT AS SIGNED’
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The volume contains unsigned drafted copies of the Muscat Civil Air Agreement. The main contents of the agreement are the following: Heads of agreement between His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and His Highness the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Territory of Muscat and Oman Air navigatio...
File No.14/180 II, Fight between Sheik of Ras-el-Khaimah and Shihuh tribe at the instigation of the Headman of Rams; general situation on Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file consist of two parts. The beginning of the file contains correspondence relating to a dispute between the Shaikh of Ras al Khaimah and Fujairah. The main correspondents are British officials in London, Bushire, Bahrain, Residency Agent Sharjah; Shaikh Sa'id bin Maktum of Dubai; Muhammad...
'File 20/3 CEREMONIALS AND HONOURS. Death of Shaikh Sir Isa bin Ali Al Khalifah, K. C. I. E., C. S. I., Ruler of Bahrain’
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The file contains telegram correspondence sent by the Political Agency in Bahrain announcing the death of Shaikh Sir ‘Isa bin Ali Al Khalifah on 9 December 1932. The telegram was sent to the Political Agencies in the Gulf. The file contains letters of sympathy which were sent from among others, ...
File 10/4 British relations with Ibn Sa`ud: Royal Navy support for Kuwait; proposal to send Sir Gilbert Clayton on mission to Ibn Sa`ud
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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]. Specifically, the correspondence relates to Ikhwan raids into Iraqi and Kuwaiti territory, Ibn Sa'ud's relations with Kuwait and Iraqi tribe...
File [10/4] British relations with Ibn Sa`ud: Ibn Sa`ud's complaint about aid given to rebels by King Faisal and Shaikh Ahmad; fighting between rebel and loyal forces; Battle of Injair
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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]. Specifically, the correspondence concerns hostilities between the forces of Ibn Sa'ud and the Ikhwan during the rebellion led by Faisal al-Duw...
