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141. IOR/R/15/2/785

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/785
Title:
‘File 29/25 DATES QUOTA – 1944-’45 FOR BAHRAIN AND TRUCIAL COAST’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about a British Ministry of Food scheme in 1944 for ensuring a controlled supply of Iraqi dates at reasonable prices to the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms during the Second World War (1939-1945), because local date crops were insufficient and imported dates were subject...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 May 1944-24 Jan 1950
Extent:
1 file (92 folios)

142. IOR/R/15/2/927

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/927
Title:
‘File 4/3 (1.a/51) Propaganda’
Scope & Content:
The file contains exchanges of secret and confidential letters, memoranda and telegrams, mainly between Major Reginald George Evelyn William Alban and his successor Cornelius James Pelly (British Political Agents, Bahrain); Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior (Political Resident in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1940-23 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

143. IOR/R/15/2/1402

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1402
Title:
‘File 13/5 A REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS IN IRAQ’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain and the Consular Section of the British Embassy, Baghdad. The correspondence concerns a request made by a Jewish resident in Bahrain, who was emigrating to the United State...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1948-8 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

144. IOR/R/15/2/1457

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1457
Title:
‘File 15/15 Rules & Regulations Nationality Laws of Iraq & Saudi Arabia’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a public notice and the following correspondence about Iraqi and Iranian nationality laws: A circular memorandum dated 1927 from the British High Commissioner for Iraq, Baghdad, about the effect of the Iraq Nationality Law upon foreigners born in Iraq, so that the Political Age...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Sep 1926-5 Jan 1943
Extent:
1 file (80 folios)

145. IOR/R/15/2/1495

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1495
Title:
‘File 16/2 Correspondence between the Hon. the P.R. and H.E. the H.C. for Iraq and King Ibn Saud’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between British Government officials, and between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior) and the King of Nejd and Hejaz (Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]), concerning territorial transgressions and treaties associated with th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1929-4 Mar 1930
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

146. IOR/R/15/2/1499

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1499
Title:
‘File 16/6 Diary weekly Kuwait’
Scope & Content:
Fortnightly reports (as opposed to weekly reports, as stated on its cover) from the Political Agency in Kuwait. The reports are signed by the Political Agent (Major James Carmichael More; Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett; Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson), or, in his absence,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1926-31 Dec 1930
Extent:
1 file (381 folios)

147. IOR/R/15/2/1508

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1508
Title:
‘File 16/11 Arab shipping companies’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises a single piece of correspondence, a letter sent by the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Cornelius James Pelly) to the British Political Agents and Consuls in the Persian Gulf region, dated 2 January 1947 (f 2). Enclosed with the letter is a typewritten e...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1946-2 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

148. IOR/R/15/2/1522

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1522
Title:
‘File 16/25 Iraq Government Gazette from 7th January, 1945 to’
Scope & Content:
Copies of the weekly ‘Iraq Government Gazette, published in Baghdad by the Directorate General of Propaganda of the Ministry of Interior, Government of Iraq. The copies included in the file cover the periods 7 January 1945 to 1 April 1945, and 2 March 1947 to 11 May 1947. The Gazettes include: ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1945-11 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (251 folios)

149. IOR/R/15/5/26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/26
Title:
File X/3 Disorders & Raids near Basra & in Koweit [Kuwait] Hinterland
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the conflict between the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Mubarak Al Sabah, and Shaikh Sa'dun Al Mansur of the Muntafich [Muntafiq] tribe as well as political developments in Kuwait and the Ottoman Province of Basra related to protract...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1909-23 Sep 1917
Extent:
1 file (150 folios)

150. IOR/R/15/5/29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/29
Title:
File [10/4] British relations with Ibn Sa`ud: Ikhwan raids on Iraq and Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. Specifically, the correspondence relates to Ikhwan raids into Iraqi and Kuwaiti territory, Ibn Sa'ud's inability to stop them and what measu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1928-25 Nov 1928
Extent:
1 file (299 folios)