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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/1-1442 Place Persian Gulf, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/12/89

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/89
Title:
PZ 8239/33 ‘Persian Gulf: Qn [Question] of supply of Press Cuttings to Bushire’
Scope & Content:
The file contains mainly correspondence and notes by India Office officials in London, relating to their enquiries and arrangements for the subscription, payment and supply of British press cuttings containing news coverage of Persia and the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, in 1934-1935 and again...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1933-22 May 1941
Extent:
1 file (43 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/102
Title:
PZ 2080/34 Persian Gulf: movements of Mr Insull the American financier; question of extradition rights in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains two internal advice notes made by officials in the Political Department of the India Office, London in 1934, relating to the exercise of British extradition powers in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, for fugitive criminals of a foreign state. The first note mentions the Extr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1934-26 Mar 1934
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/122
Title:
PZ 7769/1934 'Supply of maps to the political resident in the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, notes, supply notes, and an air consignment note, relating to the supply of maps to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It includes correspondence between Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and John Gilbert Laithwait...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1934-9 May 1946
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/218

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/218
Title:
PZ 8747/36 ‘Tour of G.W. Rendel, C.M.G., Foreign Office, to the Middle East, 1937. Report by Mr G.W. Rendel’
Scope & Content:
The file consists largely of a report by Mr George William Rendel, Head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office in London, on his private tour to the Persian Gulf and also to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of King Ibn Saud, in February and March 1937. This personal account of his trip is...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1936-4 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (103 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/289

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/289
Title:
PZ 2872/39 'Importation into India of counterfeit Government of India silver coins from the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British Government officials relating to the importation of counterfeit Government of India silver coins from the Persian Gulf into India. The main correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Residen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1939-15 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/330

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/330
Title:
PZ 645/40(1) 'Persian Gulf Movements of the Political Resident'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly telegrams, from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the India Office, London, and the External Affairs Department (formerly the Foreign and Political Department) of the Government of India, New Delhi. These relate to the Resident’s movements and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1928-9 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (407 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/331

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/331
Title:
PZ 645/40(2) ‘Persian Gulf. Movement of the Political Resident (& temporary addresses)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly telegrams, from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the India Office, London, and the External Affairs Department of the Government of India, New Delhi. These relate to the Resident’s movements and temporary addresses, as well as the acting arra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1942-30 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (200 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/342

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/342
Title:
PZ 1076/40 ‘Arms Traffic Persian Gulf. Licences for export of Arms etc to the Persian Gulf Ports’
Scope & Content:
The file consists largely of monthly returns compiled by the Board of Trade and which relate to the licensing of British arms exports by sea to Muscat and the ports of the Persian Gulf, notably Basra (or Basrah). The returns contain the following information for every arms export listed: the exp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1931-8 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (355 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/361

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/361
Title:
PZ 1682/1940 'Propaganda: tour of the Middle East by Mr Rushbrook-Williams, Ministry of Information, for discussion of propaganda problems'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to a tour of the Middle East by Laurence Frederic Rushbrook-Williams in 1940 to discuss propaganda problems in the area and improve the co-ordination of pro-British propaganda. The main correspondents in the file are Rushbrook-Williams (Adviser for Midd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1940-16 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/371

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/371
Title:
PZ 2216/40 'Bahrain to be main collecting and temporary detention port in the Persian Gulf: question of responsibility'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a letter sent to the Secretary of State for India by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, on behalf of the Political Agent in Bahrain, and a draft reply. The subject of the correspondence is a question of whether or not Bahra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1940-6 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)