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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Commonwealth Relations Office, 1947-1966 Place Bahrain, Persian Gulf, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/12/787

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/787
Title:
Ext 329/43(1) ‘SUPPLY OF SUGAR TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with replacing sugar previously obtained by the Persian Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast) from India with sugar supplied from the United Kingdom; sugar production in India and Pakistan had fallen following the end of the Second World War (1939-194...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1947-7 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1975

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1975
Title:
Coll 5/25 ’Air Route to India (Arab Coast): Bahrain Civil Air Agreement – Landing Ground at Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from R Dewhurst, Director of Accounts in the Commonwealth Relations Office, addressed to the Manager of the Eastern Bank Limited. It details the sums due to the Shaikh of Bahrain under the Bahrain Civil Air Agreement for the lease of the aerodrome and services operated ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jan 1949
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1981

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1981
Title:
Coll 5/31 ‘Air Route to India: Prohibition of private flights along the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes on the subject of private (or chartered) flights through the Persian Gulf states in special treaty relations with the British Government, these states being: Bahrain, Kuwait (also spelt Koweit), Muscat (Oman), and Sharjah. Prior to 1946, the corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Jun 1933-3 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (622 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3370

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3370
Title:
Coll 27/9(2) ‘Passports. British-Protected Persons. Travel documents for persons proceeding to, and for natives of, certain British Protectorates and Arab States.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to travel documents for persons travelling to, and for natives of, particular British Protectorates and Arab states. It includes correspondence concerning the following: the endorsement affixed by the Saudi Arabian authorities to the passports of perso...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1939-1 Mar 1948
Extent:

1 file (79 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3384
Title:
Coll 27/21(1) 'Passports. For employees of oil companies proceeding to the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence mainly relating to visas for countries in the Persian Gulf for employees and wives of employees of oil companies, mostly the Kuwait Oil Company, Limited (for Kuwait), but also other oil companies including: the Iraq Petroleum Company, Limited (for Bahrain and Qat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1945-6 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (463 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3554

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3554
Title:
Coll 29/2(3) 'Royal Naval Base Bahrain: transfer and adaptation for use as Political Residency'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the transfer of the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf from Bushire to Bahrain in 1946, and the conversion of the Royal Navy Base in Bahrain for the use of the Political Resident. The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between British officials including t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1946-13 Aug 1949
Extent:
1 file (367 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3941

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3941
Title:
Coll 30/201 ‘Persian Gulf. Judicial. Service of documents upon British subjects in Bahrein Islands.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the service of petitions of alimony and divorce upon British subjects in Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file). The papers include correspondence, dated 1940, regarding an enquiry from the High Commissioner for Canada about the procedure in effecting s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1940-4 Sep 1947
Extent:

1 file (36 folios)