‘File 16/73 Development of Artesian Water in Muscat’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in the file dated 1941 is the result of an enquiry from the Political Agent in Muscat (Captain Tom Hickinbotham) to the Political Agent in Bahrain (Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban), about the prospects for an artesian water supply at Muscat, or elsewhere on the Batinah ...
Papers regarding stationery orders for the Political Agency in Bahrain, consisting of requisition orders, stationery indents, tonnage certificates, and designs for rubber stamps. Correspondence between Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent, Bahrain; the Deputy Controller of Stat...
File 17/7 III Electric Installation Political Agency Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the supply and maintenance of electrical installations in the Bahrain Political Agency's buildings. Most of the file consists of correspondence between the Assistant Political Agent [Captain George Ashmead Cole; Captain Tom Hickinbotham; Captain Michael Gray Dixon] and the Go...
This file concerns plans for wireless broadcasting sets to be provided to the Political Agencies at Bahrain, Kuwait, and Muscat, as well as at the Residency at Sharjah, for the purpose of making up-to-date news available (with the cost of the wireless sets being borne wholly by His Majesty's Gov...
File 19/5 Corr re: Tour of Air Officer Commanding, RAF, Iraq
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams and correspondence regarding arrangements for official visits of the Air Officer Commanding of the RAF in Iraq, and of the British Ambassador at Baghdad, to Bahrain and the Persian Gulf. The principal correspondents are: the Air Officer Commanding, Royal Air Force (R...
File 21/33 Labour employed by RAF [Royal Air Force]
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the employment of persons by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Bahrain. The correspondence is between: H C Parker, Air Liaison Officer in Bahrain; Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent in Bahrain; Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of B...
File 21/38 Correspondence with Gulf Aviation Co. regarding services Bahrain/Doha/Sharjah
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain, Political Officer, Trucial Coast (POTC) in Sharjah, the British Agency at Doha, and representatives of Gulf Aviation Company, Petroleum Concessions Limited, and Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited. The correspondence di...
‘Bahrain Church File (correspondence with Bishop in Jerusalem)’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the establishment of, and raising of funds for the construction of, an Anglican church in Manama, Bahrain. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior); the Bishop of ...
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and press cuttings relating to the construction of the Baghdad railway. Topics discussed include: the visit of engineers to survey German alignment; Baghdad Railway (1911) Command Paper 5635 (ff 10-48); the draft Anglo...
Correspondence and papers concerning negotiations over the drafting of trade, Bon Voisinage and extradition treaties between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, in an effort to lift the trade blockade, imposed upon Kuwait at the orders of the King of Saudi Arabia, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣa...
