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521. IOR/R/15/2/142

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/142
Title:
File 1/A/5 II Administration: Qatar affairs
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence concerning Qatar affairs, particularly the supply of arms and ammunition to Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani, the Ruler of Qatar [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī]. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Pers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1937-31 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 volume (239 folios)

522. IOR/R/15/2/381

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/381
Title:
File 9/37 Foreign exchange
Scope & Content:
The file mainly contains applications submitted for US dollar exchange for importing goods, plus letters of credit granted by the Political Agent at Bahrain. Subjects discussed within the file are an increase in the quota for imports to the ports of Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, Muscat and Gwadur, an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1947-12 Jul 1948
Extent:
1 file (125 folios)

523. IOR/R/15/2/535

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/535
Title:
‘File 13/31 Middle East Air Services’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence sent between the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Residency, the British Legation in Damascus, and Foreign Office officials. The correspondence relates to the set-up of reciprocal air routes between British and Syrian authorities; specifically,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1948-7 Jul 1948
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

524. IOR/R/15/2/559

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/559
Title:
17/6 AMATEUR TRANSMITTING STATIONS
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence relating to applications from three individuals, Trevor John Brown and Eric William Dennett of the Bahrain Petroleum Company, and Joseph Alexander Faithful of Cable and Wireless, for licences to practice amateur wireless transmitting in Bahrain. The correspo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1936-4 Mar 1947
Extent:
1 volume (243 folios)

525. IOR/R/15/2/594

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/594
Title:
'19/6 MRS. HOWARD CHITTER'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to the attempted visit to Bahrain and Kuwait by Winifred Howard-Clitty, a writer of children’s books, in the winter of 1933/34. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1933-3 May 1934
Extent:
1 file (70 folios)

526. IOR/R/15/2/651

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651
Title:
‘File 28/1 War – Miscellaneous’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence on a range of subjects associated both directly and indirectly with events and the impact of the Second World War. Key correspondents in the file include: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman; Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban; Edward...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1939-7 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (185 folios)

527. IOR/R/15/2/702

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/702
Title:
‘File 28/15 Submarine Menace’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to enemy submarine activity in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman throughout the War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban; Edward Birkbeck Wakefield; Ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1940-24 Aug 1944
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

528. IOR/R/15/2/727

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/727
Title:
‘File 28/34-II War emergency legislation’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to, and copies of the various orders, regulations and notices, issued under the Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council, 1939. The file’s principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Sep 1939-9 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

529. IOR/R/15/2/751

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/751
Title:
‘File 28/57-IV Industrial conscription’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the status of employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) (and to a lesser extent Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) and Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited (PDQ)), in relation to Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1942-28 Feb 1944
Extent:
1 file (397 folios)

530. IOR/R/15/2/165

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/165
Title:
File 1/A/42 Palestine disturbances.
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the publication of the report of the Palestine Royal Commission, and British Government White Papers on Palestine, 1937-39; the reaction to them in Bahrain (and elsewhere in the Persian Gulf); the response of the King of Saudi Arabia [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1936-3 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (290 folios)