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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Kuwait Political Agency, 1899-1961

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3757

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3757
Title:
Coll 30/45 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Kuwait Intelligence Summaries, 1932-1936'
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of monthly intelligence summaries that were prepared by the Political Agency in Kuwait. The summaries are divided into a number of different thematic sections, the exact composition of which varies slightly from month to month, but usually includes a mixture of the foll...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Feb 1933-19 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 file (594 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2888

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2888
Title:
Coll 17/26 'Iraq. Army.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the Iraqi armed forces, mostly concerning the introduction of conscription in Iraq under a system of National Service. The file also includes papers regarding the military policy of the Government of Iraq, and the concern of the chief of the Iraqi General Sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1933-21 Jun 1939
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3743

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3743
Title:
Coll 30/29 'Persian Gulf, Kuwait: Trade Reports 1930/31 to 19..'
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of annual Kuwait Trade Reports that were prepared by the Political Agency in Kuwait. These reports contain detailed information related to trade, exchange, imports, exports and shipping in/out of Kuwait. In addition to copies of these reports, the file also contains a l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1932-1 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (202 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3758

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3758
Title:
Coll 30/45(2) 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Koweit Intelligence Summaries 1937-'
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of monthly intelligence summaries that were prepared by the Political Agency in Kuwait. The summaries are divided into a number of different thematic sections, the exact composition of which varies slightly from month to month, but usually includes a mixture of the foll...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1937-2 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (628 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3759A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3759A
Title:
Coll 30/45(3) 'Persian Gulf Diaries: Koweit Intelligence Summaries 1946 - Feb 1948'
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of fortnightly intelligence summaries that were prepared by the Political Agency in Kuwait. The summaries are divided into a number of different thematic sections, the exact composition of which varies slightly from month to month, but usually includes a mixture of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1946-30 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (138 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/130
Title:
File 266/1908 Pt 1 ‘Diplomatic & Consular Expenditure.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning expenditure by the Government of India and the Foreign Office on diplomatic and consular services, mostly relating to Persia [Iran]. It also includes some correspondence relating to expenditure at the Koweit [Kuwait] Political Agency from 1904-1905 (the year i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1908-28 Feb 1911
Extent:

1 volume (322 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B164

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B164
Title:
British relations with the Wahabees
Scope & Content:
Printed report communicated by the India Office and printed for the use of the Foreign Office. The report concerns British relations with the Wahabees [Wahhabi] emirs, from 1904 to 1907, the growing influence of Ibn Sa‘ūd [Āl Sa‘ūd, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal] and the British pro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1908
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/131/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/131/1
Title:
File 266/1908 Pt 2 ‘Diplomatic + Consular Expenditure.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers (correspondence and financial statements) concerning diplomatic and consular expenditure, mostly relating to Persia. It includes: statements sent to the Secretary of State for India by the Government of India Foreign Department, comparing the expenditure incurred by th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1909-21 Apr 1914
Extent:

1 item (203 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/277
Title:
PZ 465/1939 'Basra Petroleum Company: possibility of a pipeline through Kuwait territory'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter to Trenchard Craven Fowle, Political Resident, Persian Gulf, from Gerald Simpson de Gaury, Political Agency, Kuwait, requesting advice regarding the possible piping of oil through Kuwait territory by the Basra Petroleum Company.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1938-20 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3861

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3861
Title:
Coll 30/127 'Persian Gulf. Koweit. Relations between Ibn Saud and the Sheikh of Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials, primarily at the Political Residency and the Political Agency in Kuwait, concerning relations between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The correspondence in the file focuses on a visit made to Kuwait by the King of Saudi Arabia, 'Abd al'-Azi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1936-8 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (81 folios)