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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Ras Tannura, Saudi Arabia

1. IOR/R/15/1/382-383

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/382-383
Title:
File 23: Turkish Arabia
Scope & Content:
The Turkish Arabia subject files relate to the internal politics and foreign relations of the state of Iraq. The files contain correspondence concerning attacks by Kurdish tribal forces against the British after the invasion of 1917, a copy of the Anglo-Iraq Treaty of 1926, a discussion concernin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1945
Extent:
2 files (495 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/710, f 261

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/710, f 261
Title:
‘DISTRICTS SURROUNDING BUSHIRE’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Districts labelled for reference with boundaries outlined in colour, roads shown in red and rivers in blue. Shoals indicated by pecked line.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:
1 map

3. IOR/R/15/1/746

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/746
Title:
Biographical Notes
Scope & Content:
The volume contains manuscript draft biographical notes on Persian statesmen and notables compiled by George Percy Churchill. Many of the notes are accompanied by imprints of the subject's seal and signature (in Persian); some by typescript pages, extracts from published works and newspaper cut...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
c 1904
Extent:
1 volume (302 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/634

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/634
Title:
F. 92 File 82/33 APOC KUK-I-MUND TEST
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence received by the Political Resident at Bushire in regard to test drilling at Kuh-I-Mund [Kūh-e Mand, Bushire] by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), and records anti-British feelings among the locals.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1930-6 Jun 1930
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/704

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/704
Title:
'Russo-Persian Relations, 1854-1875'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains records of correspondence (abstracts, lists, copies and originals) concerning relations between Russia and Persia during the period 1837-1875. The papers are as follows: Papers relating to Russian proceedings on the island of Ashoorada [Ashuradeh] covering the years 1837-185...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1860-1910
Extent:
1 volume (173 folios)

6. 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)

7. IOR/R/15/1/725

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/725
Title:
Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Nejd [Najd] Affairs, 1804-1904
Scope & Content:
The volume is Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Nejd Affairs, 1804-1904 (Simla: G C Press, 1904). The volume contains an historical overview of Nejd [Najd], 1804-94, with particular reference to the history of the Wahabis [Wahhabis].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904
Extent:

1 volume (32 folios)

8. 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)

9. IOR/R/15/1/747

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/747
Title:
Report on Najd Mission 1917-1918
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled Report on Najd Mission, 1917-1918 (Baghdad: Government Press, 1918). The report describes the mission headed by Harry St John Bridger Philby to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥman bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)], ruler of Najd and Imam of the Wahahbi [Wahhabi] sec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

1 volume (28 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/422

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/422
Title:
File 10/5 II Hasa oil: CASOC's activities in Hasa; development of Ras Tannura; Political Agent's visit to Hasa
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Political Resident at Bushire on the oil concession in Saudi Arabia, the activities of California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) in Hasa, Saudi Arabia, and the development of the port and the refinery at Ras ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1935-26 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 volume (326 folios)