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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R/15/2/925-937

1. IOR/R/15/2/925

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/925
Title:
File 4/1 (1.a/46) Arabic broadcasts by foreign stations
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a confidential circular memorandum (reference No.279-S of 1939) from Trenchard Craven William Fowle (Political Resident in the Persian Gulf), dated 30 March 1939 at the British Residency and Consulate-General, Bushire. It is addressed to the Political Agents for Bahrain, Kuw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Mar 1939-26 June 1939
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/926

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/926
Title:
‘File 4/2 (1.a/50) M.E.I.C. publicity’
Scope & Content:
The file is about a change in administrative arrangements, following receipt of a general instruction in 1939, to send all future intelligence summaries to the new Middle East Intelligence Centre (M.E.I.C.) at Cairo. The file contains confidential, secret and most secret copy letters and telegr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1939- 26 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/927

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/927
Title:
‘File 4/3 (1.a/51) Propaganda’
Scope & Content:
The file contains exchanges of secret and confidential letters, memoranda and telegrams, mainly between Major Reginald George Evelyn William Alban and his successor Cornelius James Pelly (British Political Agents, Bahrain); Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior (Political Resident in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1940-23 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/928

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/928
Title:
‘File 4/6 (1B/1) Reports of Treaty of Alliance between U.K. and Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file contains confidential dispatch no.239 dated 25 July 1934 from Mr A.S. Calvert (chargé d’affaires, British Legation, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) to Sir John Simon (British Foreign Secretary, Foreign Office, London). Calvert also sent copies of his dispatch to the Viceroy of India and to the Po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1934 - 25 Aug 1934
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/929

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/929
Title:
‘File 4/8 (2/4a) Article regarding Bahrain-U.K. Treaty; Dismissal of Ali bin Hussain, Secretary to the Manama Municipality’
Scope & Content:
The file contains an exchange of confidential correspondence, following Arab press reports of a new friendship treaty between the Sheikhs of Bahrain and the British Government. The correspondence is mainly between Meredith Worth (Officiating Political Agent, Bahrain), Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Go...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1934-19 Jan 1936
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/930

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/930
Title:
File 4/9 (2/7) "AL BAHRAIN" NEWSPAPER
Scope & Content:
The file contains an exchange of confidential correspondence, following a formal protest made by Ibn Sa’ud (King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia) to the Minister at the British Legation in Jeddah, about publication of an article in the newspaper Al Bahrain on 26 November 1942. The correspondence is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1942-21 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/931

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/931
Title:
File 4/10 B.B.C. broadcasts
Scope & Content:
The file contains an investigation into a news report on the radio, transmitted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (B.B.C.) Arabic Service on 10 August 1947, concerning the Sheikh of Kuwait’s visit to Saudi Arabia. The file includes: an English translation of the news broadcast, reporting ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Aug 1947-17 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/932

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/932
Title:
File 4/11 Reuters Agency in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains copy correspondence arising from a visit made by Mr Boxall of Reuters News Agency to the Political Resident at Bahrain, to discuss company business. The correspondence consists of a memorandum (reference number Residency Endorsement 431-S) and a confidential letter (Dominions O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Mar 1947-16 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/933

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/933
Title:
File 4/12 (1.a/52) Publicity Officer, Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This correspondence file discusses the suitability of Bertram Thomas for appointment as Publicity Officer in the Persian Gulf, as recommended by the Political Resident and endorsed by the Government of India. The correspondence comprises: one secret letter and five confidential telegrams (refere...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1941-18 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/934

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/934
Title:
File 4/13 Bahrain Government press
Scope & Content:
This file contains three items of correspondence (reference numbers D.O. No.550-EL; D.O. No.C/121; No.931-EL), two of which are confidential. The correspondence took place between William Rupert Hay (Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain), Cornelius James Pelly (Political Agent, Bahrai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1948-4 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)