File K/19 Interviews of foreigners with the Political Agent and the Political Resident
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to visits and audiences requested from and granted by the Political Agent in Bahrain and Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
File K/22 Acquisition of landed property by foreigners in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file is divided into a series of court cases initiated as a result of the enactment of the Bahrain Nationality Law of 1937. Because the law made ownership of immovable property by foreign subjects illegal or difficult, many property owners either sold or claimed disputed property they wished...
File K/23 Correspondence regarding Notes of Protest
Scope & Content:
This file contains notes of protest presented by merchants and ship owners to the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most of them pertain to cargo that was either damaged or destroyed between ports, at sea.
Serial No. 30 File No. M-1/J. Subject: Examination on Commission.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding eight separate cases raised with the Bahrain Political Agency from Courts, Firms, and Attorneys outside of Bahrain, asking for help in obtaining testimonies from certain individuals in Bahrain. Examples of those are the Law Offices of Thelen, the Court o...
[Un-numbered file] Export of Currency notes from BAHRAIN
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters sent by merchants, banks and companies to the Bahrain Political Agency asking the Agency to grant them export licences for the shipment of currency notes from one place to another, from one bank to another, or from one company to a bank. The main correspondents are the A...
The file contains correspondence in the form of petitions, reports and statements, related to police cases in Bahrain. Cases of note include the renewal of driving licences, and the distribution of ice by the Baladyia (Municipality). The main correspondence is between the Bahrain Political Agen...
The file comprises correspondence from two distinct periods. Correspondence at the beginning and end of the file is dated 1909 to 1913 (ff 2-16, ff 52-87), and discusses the British protection of Bahrainis in Ottoman Turkey, in response to Ottoman Government representatives in Constantinople [Is...
Bahrain Agency, Miscellaneous unnumbered accounts and papers
Scope & Content:
The files hold a miscellaneous selection of correspondence, accounts and other papers, not associated with any of the subject headings under which most of the Bahrain Political Agency files are arranged. The files contain: correspondence dated between 1873 and 1913, relating to the status of Ba...
The file comprises papers (bills, receipts, vouchers) relating to the accounts of the Political Agency in Bahrain, for the months April 1922 to April 1923. Papers included for each month, or most months, include: statements of the cash account for the Political Agency in Bahrain, including a lis...
‘Payments on behalf of P.R.O. Bushire etc – Absentee statements – cash account’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to the financial operation of the Political Agency in Bahrain, including the Public Relations Office (PRO) and, for most of the months represented in the file, contain the following: cash accounts for the Political Agency for each month, with a summary of the m...
