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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Political Agent, Bahrain, 1905-1971

101. IOR/L/PS/12/4252

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4252
Title:
Coll 37/18 'Travellers. Persian Gulf, Arab States, Arabia: Lady Dorothy Mills: Mrs Howard Clitty: Mrs M. A. Cairnes: Miss Palmer Smith: Mrs Greenway: Lady Qadir & Miss Clements.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to seven different applications to visit the Persian Gulf (mainly Kuwait, Yemen and Bahrain), which were submitted during the period 1931-35 by the following: Mrs Winifred J Howard-Clitty, Dorothy Mills, Mrs Margaret Maria...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1931-4 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 file (82 folios)

102. 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)

103. IOR/L/PS/12/4492

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4492
Title:
Coll 44/16 ‘Persian Gulf. Introduction of an export licensing system. Regulation made under Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council (1939).’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to the introduction of an export licensing system for Arab countries in the Persian Gulf during the Second World War. The papers notably cover the following: The Bahrain (also written in the file as Bahrein) Petroleum Compa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1941-29 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (82 folios)

104. IOR/L/PS/12/4493

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4493
Title:
Coll 44/17 'War. Detention of enemy civil aircraft'
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the procedure for the detention of enemy aircraft in the Arab Gulf States in the event of the declaration of war. Correspondents include the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent, Bahrain; and the Secretary of State for India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1939-4 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

105. IOR/L/PS/12/4505

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4505
Title:
Coll 44/26 ‘War. (Defense, Protective and other Measures) Censorship restrictions in the Persian Gulf.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to censorship restrictions on telegrams in the Persian Gulf, during the Second World War. The correspondence discusses: The Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file) branch of Cable and Wireless receiving orders from Head Office not to send or accep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1939-18 Jan 1944
Extent:

1 file (88 folios)

106. IOR/L/PS/12/4584

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4584
Title:
Coll 45/3 (2) PROPAGANDA: PERSIAN GULF: Work of Publicity Officer in the Persian Gulf (Public Relations Officer): Propaganda Material
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence on the role of the Publicity Officer in the Persian Gulf, specifically about material characterised as propaganda, from 13 June 1939 to 31 March 1948. The correspondence is primarily between the Secretary of State for India, Public Relations Officer in the Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jun 1939-31 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (250 folios)

107. IOR/L/PS/18/B349

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B349
Title:
Arabia. Political Situation in Nejd
Scope & Content:
This printed report contains a memorandum by Major Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, Political Agent, Bahrein [Bahrain], dated 12 August 1920, concerning the political situation in Nejd [Najd] and Central Arabia at the end of July 1920, gathered from conversations with Abdul Aziz Al Qusaibi [‘Abd ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1920
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

108. IOR/L/PS/18/B396

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B396
Title:
Bahrein, 1908-1928
Scope & Content:
Document outlining the administration and history of Bahrein [Bahrain] from 1908-28. Covering: administration – control by the Government of India and titular Shaikh of the Islands, Bahrein's status as an independent Arab State, internal administration conducted by the Shaikh and a European Fina...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1928
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

109. IOR/L/PS/18/B420

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B420
Title:
Question of British Interference in the Administration of Bahrain
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, 28 August 1929. Printed in October 1929. Covering: a brief history of the development of British concern in the internal af...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1929
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

110. IOR/L/PS/18/B458

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B458
Title:
DUBAI OIL CONCESSION AND CONNECTED DOCUMENTS
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum reproducing a commercial agreement between Petroleum Concessions Limited and the Shaikh of Dubai, in which rights are granted to the former to prospect for oil in the State of Dubai. The memorandum also reproduces a political agreement between the British Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1937-6 Oct 1937
Extent:

10 folios