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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R/15/5/179-235 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

11. IOR/R/15/5/189

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/189
Title:
File 4/9 I Anglo-Kuwait Relations
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding Britain's relationship with the Ruler of Kuwait and Britain's influence and role in the country generally. Specifically, the correspondence includes discussions concerning whether or not the Political Residency in Bushire shou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1929-16 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/5/190

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/190
Title:
File 4/9 II Anglo-Kuwait Relations (including Customs Duty for British Subjects)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials (primarily between the Political Agent in Kuwait, Major Tom Hickinbotham and the Political Resident, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior) regarding the rate at which British merchants active in Kuwait were liable to pay customs du...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Mar 1942-20 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (47 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/5/191

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/191
Title:
File 4/10 Condition of Divers in Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials in Baghdad and Kuwait concerning the conditions of Kuwaiti pearl divers. The correspondence is related to a proposal for Kuwaitis to be employed as boat pilots on the Shatt al-Arab waterway that was made by the British Embassy in Baghda...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1934-9 Mar 1947
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/5/192

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/192
Title:
File 4/11 I Bank for Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the possibility of a foreign bank opening a branch in Kuwait. The two main candidates discussed in the file are Eastern Bank Limited and Ottoman Bank. Towards the end of the file, an expression of interest by al-Bank al-Arabi [Arab Bank] is also discus...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1935-4 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 file (247 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/5/193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/193
Title:
File 4/11 I Bank for Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the opening of an Imperial Bank of Iran branch in Kuwait in 1941/42 and the bank's first few years of operation in the country. The correspondence contained in the file consists of messages exchanged between British officials, representatives of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1940-9 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (155 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/5/194

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/194
Title:
File 4/12 Shaikh and Subah [al-Sabah] Family --- Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials related to a number of different topics that all concern members of the al-Sabah ruling family of Kuwait. The topics discussed are as follows: The financial conditions of Shaikh Hamud al-Jabir al-Sabah, 1938 (folios 2-8). Tensions bet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Aug 1938-27 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (185 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/5/195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/195
Title:
File 4/13 I Kuwait Education
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials related to the development of education in Kuwait. The correspondence relates to a number of issues including the possibility of Kuwaiti students studying in Iraq or Palestine, the need to expand education in Kuwait, assistance from the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1935-19 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (222 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/5/196

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/196
Title:
File 4/13 II Kuwait Education
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the development of education in Kuwait, specifically the activities of a British educational official named F J Wakelin, who was on secondment from the British Council and acting as adviser to the Governments of Bahrain and Kuwait at this time. A nu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
6 Oct 1939-17 Nov 1943
Extent:
1 file (420 folios)

19. IOR/R/15/5/197

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/197
Title:
File 4/13 III Kuwait Education
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the development of education in Kuwait, specifically the activities of a British educational official named F J Wakelin, who was on secondment from the British Council and acting as adviser to the Governments of Bahrain and Kuwait at this time. A nu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
21 Oct 1943-13 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (419 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/5/198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/198
Title:
File 4/13 IV Kuwait Education
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the development of education in Kuwait, with much of the file concerning the administration and finances of a hostel in Cairo that hosted Kuwaiti students studying in Egypt. In addition to internal correspondence between British officials (notably th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
17 Jul 1945-28 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (379 folios)