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71. IOR/L/PS/12/3830

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3830
Title:
Coll 30/107 'Koweit: Rules of succession in Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the rules of succession for the rulers of Kuwait (also referred to as Koweit). The papers cover: correspondence dated 1935 between the India Office and Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon of The Times concerning the article on Kuwait for the new edition of the Statesman's Year ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1935-19 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

72. IOR/L/PS/12/3870

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3870
Title:
Coll 30/136 'Film productions: Facilities for film-producing units.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the making of a documentary film by the Strand Film Company, London, concerning the Imperial Airways route between the United Kingdom and Australia, which involved filming at Sharjah. The papers include: telegrams dated 1936 giving permission for the filming from the Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1936-13 May 1937
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

73. IOR/L/PS/12/3965B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3965B
Title:
Coll 30/221 'Banking facilities in Bahrein and Saudi-Arabia'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns Bahrain alone, and not, as the title states, Saudi Arabia. The file contains two letters dated September 1949 from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Rupert Hay) concerning a visit to Bahrain by a representative of the Pakistan State Ban...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1944-8 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

74. IOR/L/PS/12/3743

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3743
Title:
Coll 30/29 'Persian Gulf, Kuwait: Trade Reports 1930/31 to 19..'
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of annual Kuwait Trade Reports that were prepared by the Political Agency in Kuwait. These reports contain detailed information related to trade, exchange, imports, exports and shipping in/out of Kuwait. In addition to copies of these reports, the file also contains a l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1932-1 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (202 folios)

75. IOR/L/PS/12/3758

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3758
Title:
Coll 30/45(2) 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Koweit Intelligence Summaries 1937-'
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of monthly intelligence summaries that were prepared by the Political Agency in Kuwait. The summaries are divided into a number of different thematic sections, the exact composition of which varies slightly from month to month, but usually includes a mixture of the foll...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1937-2 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (628 folios)

76. IOR/L/PS/12/3874

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3874
Title:
Coll 30/140 'Visits of foreign warships to Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns visits by foreign warships to Persian Gulf states that were under British protection. The British Government was concerned that such visits should obtain prior permission, particularly visits to the Trucial Coast in the 1930s, where British officials cited the Exclusive Agreeme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4 Jan 1935-21 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (159 folios)

77. IOR/L/PS/12/3916

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3916
Title:
Coll 30/178 'Location of Political Resident in time of war.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the question of whether to evacuate the Political Residency at Bushire in the run-up to, and following the outbreak of the Second World War. The file contains the views of HM Minister at Tehran, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Foreign Office, the India Office, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1938-3 Sep 1941
Extent:
1 file (160 folios)

78. IOR/L/PS/12/3923

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3923
Title:
Coll 30/185 'OIL: Hasa Oil. Qn of a pre-emption agreement.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the question ('Qn' in the file title) of whether the British Government required a pre-emption agreement (to commandeer oil in case of national emergency) in the case of oil from Hasa. The file includes correspondence on the matter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1938-29 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

79. IOR/L/PS/12/3759A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3759A
Title:
Coll 30/45(3) 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Koweit Intelligence Summaries 1946 - Feb 1948'
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of fortnightly intelligence summaries that were prepared by the Political Agency in Kuwait. The summaries are divided into a number of different thematic sections, the exact composition of which varies slightly from month to month, but usually includes a mixture of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1946-30 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (138 folios)

80. IOR/L/PS/12/3865

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3865
Title:
Coll 30/131 'Persian Gulf. Pearling. American process for the manufacture of cultured pearls'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials and an American malacologist named Clarence F Hoy. The correspondence concerns a proposal by Hoy to introduce a method for the manufacture of cultured pearls somewhere in the British Empire, with Bahrain mentioned as a possible location...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Aug 1936-1 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)