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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Admiralty, 1708-1964

101. IOR/L/PS/12/4097

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4097
Title:
Coll 34/10 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Persian Gulf: Individual cases'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and reports concerning individual cases of slavery and slave trading in the Persian Gulf. The file covers two cases. The first is of a pearl diver and former slave seeking refuge aboard HMS Fowey, details of which are contained in a manuscript extract from the Report of Proceedin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1938-28 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

102. IOR/L/PS/12/4099

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4099
Title:
Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and minute papers concerning the slave trade in Saudi Arabia and the Trucial Coast. The papers consist of intelligence reports, parliamentary notices, memoranda, letters, and telegrams. Matters covered by the file include: Concern over a lack of application of anti-slavery legisla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1936-20 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (235 folios)

103. IOR/L/PS/12/4107

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4107
Title:
Coll 35/4 'Arabia: postal communication between Kamaran and Jizan; wireless communication between Aden and Jizan'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns arrangements for the transmission of post between Jizan (Saudi Arabia) and Kamaran (Yemen), and covers the establishment of wireless telecommunications between Jizan and Aden. The file is composed of correspondence between: the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Political R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1931-9 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 file (60 folios)

104. IOR/L/PS/12/4109

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4109
Title:
Coll 35/6 'Arabia: Hejaz-Nejd; wireless stations; postal and telegraph communications with the outside world'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns postal communications in the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd and, later, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The file covers: Desire of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] to establish wireless stations in Hejaz and Nejd, 1926-29 Proposed wireless communicati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1925-17 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (514 folios)

105. IOR/L/PS/12/4113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4113
Title:
Coll 35/11 'Persian Gulf: Bahrain wireless station; refusal of Persian government to accept telegraphic traffic to or from Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns wireless telegraph stations at Bahrain, telegraphic communications between Bushire and Bahrain, and the refusal of the Persian Government to accept telegraphic traffic to or from Bahrain. There is a sketch representing the cables and wireless system in the Persian Gulf, on foli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1932-23 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (140 folios)

106. IOR/L/PS/12/4116

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4116
Title:
Coll 35/13 'Persian Gulf: public wireless telegraph station at Sharjah'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the establishment of a wireless telegraph station at Sharjah. The file contains agreements with the ruler of Sharjah for the establishment of an air station by Imperial Airways, and correspondence related to the opening of a wireless telegraph station at Sharjah. The file is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1933-26 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (88 folios)

107. IOR/L/PS/12/4488

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4488
Title:
Coll 44/9(S) ‘War. Defence, Protective and other measures. Persian Gulf: Maintenance of spare parts at Bahrein by oil companies operating in the Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to preparations for war. It discusses a proposal made by the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) to keep in Bahrain (also written here as Bahrein) a large stock of spare parts in connection with the working of oilf...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1939-29 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

108. IOR/L/PS/18/B407

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B407
Title:
Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Memorandum providing an overview of the extent of slavery in the Persian Gulf, and the measures undertaken by his Majesty's Government to combat it. Covering: introduction outlining the legal status of slavery; treaty engagements of the Arab States of the Gulf, including Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1928
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

109. IOR/L/PS/18/B408

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B408
Title:
Persian Complaints of Smuggling in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Memorandum outlining the recent history of smuggling in the Persian Gulf, and the results of an investigation made by His Majesty's Government, the Government of India, and the Admiralty into the extent to which assistance could be given to Persia in the suppression of the contraband traffic. It...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1928
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

110. IOR/L/PS/18/C143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C143
Title:
Letter (Secret No. 27) from Austen Chamberlain to Charles Hardinge, Governor General of India in Council, with enclosures
Scope & Content:
The memorandum consists of a copy of a letter from Austen Chamberlain to the Governor General of India and its enclosures. The purpose of the letter being to forward recent discussion — within the British Government — concerning the defence of the oil fields and pipelines of the Anglo-Persian Oi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1915
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)