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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968

1. IOR/Z/R/15/1/1-10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/Z/R/15/1/1-10
Title:
Indexes, Registers and Filing Guides
Scope & Content:
The indexes, registers and filing guides contain lists of the subject files created by the Residency in the Persian Gulf between circa 1880 and 1947, including all those created under the auspice of the A and B Series, and Confidential Office. Each index is typewritten, but features numerous hand...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941-1954
Extent:
10 volumes and files (1033 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/4/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4/3
Title:
File 0255 Boundaries
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the definition of tribal territories and boundaries in the Trucial Coast (United Arab Emirates). The correspondence is principally between the Residency Agent and Political Officer in Sharjah, the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Residency i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1934-29 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (162 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1822

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1822
Title:
‘Foreign Office circulars. Particulars regarding temporary officers’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of circulars and other papers received at the Bahrain Political Agency from the Foreign Office (FO), relating to the administration of the Foreign Service at home and abroad. The file is arranged in three parts: The first part (ff 2-23) is headed ‘Establishment’ and co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1946-26 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (135 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/6/411

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/411
Title:
File 12/5 ECONOMICS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Scope & Content:
The file title contains a misspelling: 'Economics' for 'Economies'. The file consists of a Foreign Office circular dated 24 November 1947 entitled 'Economies on Communications: Report'. The report contains recommendations for economies on telegrams and bag services (mail).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/6/161

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/161
Title:
File 6/23 Communism (Including Soviet Broadcasts, Anti-Communistic Policy and Stalinism, Etc:)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding radio broadcasts from the USSR in the Near and Middle East. The correspondence in the file consists of a letter sent by the Foreign Office to a number of British diplomatic officials around the Middle East and responses to i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1933-10 Jun 1933
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/550

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/550
Title:
15/10 PERSIAN GULF HANDBOOK
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a note from the Persian Gulf Residency, Bahrain, forwarding Hand Book on the Persian Gulf, Correspondence between File 15/10 Foreign Office Persian Gulf Handbook. Enclosed are two copies of a Handbook on the Persian Gulf published by the Foreign Office, August 1948. The not...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/6/162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/162
Title:
File 6/23 Communism (Including Soviet Broadcasts, Anti-Communistic Policy and Stalinism, etc)
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of anti-Communist publications and briefings that were produced by the Foreign Office and sent to British diplomatic posts throughout the Middle East including the Political Agency and Consulate in Muscat. It contains copies of the following documents: 'Foundations of S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 May 1948-24 Jul 1948
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/6/177

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/177
Title:
File 6/38 Aviation: Flights of and into Foreign Countries
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding permission for private flights to pass over and land in the various states of the Persian Gulf. Much of this correspondence relates to a proposed trip to the region by the Egyptian aviator, Hassan Anis Pasha. The French languag...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Sep 1938-2 Sep 1946
Extent:
1 file (46 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/6/380

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/380
Title:
File 11/32 II Palestine
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials (primarily at the Political Residency in Bahrain, the Political Agency in Muscat and the Foreign Office) and the Government of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman regarding the employment of Palestinian refugees for government service in M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1949-29 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/4/17

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/4/17
Title:
File 0223 Ras Al Khaimah Affairs
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the affairs of Ra's al-Khaymah. The correspondence is mostly between the British Agency at Sharjah, the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain, the Shaikh of Ra's al-Khaymah (Sulṭān bin Sālim Āl Qasimī, lat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 May 1937-3 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (140 folios)