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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Name Foreign Office, Eastern Department, 1886-1968

1. IOR/R/15/2/465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/465
Title:
'11/5 Negotiations with Ibn Saud regarding Boundaries of Saudi Arabia'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, memoranda, maps, and other papers relating to questions over the position of Saudi Arabia’s south-eastern frontier adjoining Qatar and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, notably Abu Dhabi. Negotiations over the frontier had long been deferred by British Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1944-4 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/5/307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/307
Title:
File C 7/9 Repatriation of persons convicted in Agency Courts in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence sent primarily between the Kuwait Political Agent, the Persian Gulf Political Resident, and officials of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office. It is concerned with how deportations of prisoners from the Gulf States — under the Colonial Prisoners Removal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Sep 1949-30 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/6/251

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/251
Title:
File 8/64 III SULTAN'S RELATIONS WITH HIS TRIBES
Scope & Content:
This file concerns relations between the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and the Omani tribes. It includes accounts of meetings between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Rupert Hay) and the Sultan, discussing the Sultan's efforts ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1951-16 Dec 1951
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/6/441

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/441
Title:
14/6 OFFSHORE OIL IN PERSIAN GULF
Scope & Content:
This file is comprised of correspondence concerning British and American proposals relating to the continental shelf of the Gulf and offshore oil. The file includes correspondence (ff 11-17) from the British Embassy, Washington to the Foreign Office, London, discussing the issues of sovereignty...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Mar 1948-8 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)