The file contains a letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Political Agent at Bahrain regarding a request from Arabian-American Oil Company (ARAMCO) to open a hotel in Bahrain.
The file consists of a note from the Persian Gulf Residency, Bahrain, forwarding Hand Book on the Persian Gulf, Correspondence between File 15/10 Foreign Office Persian Gulf Handbook. Enclosed are two copies of a Handbook on the Persian Gulf published by the Foreign Office, August 1948. The not...
The file discusses arrangements for the wartime censorship of telegrams and letters and customs checking of individuals’ baggage and personal belongings. Included in the file are official orders in Arabic, English and French relating to censorship rules; requests for letters in other languages t...
Map of the B Plan (Map No. 9) for the partition of Palestine, as proposed by the Palestine Partition Commission, 1937, showing suggested boundaries of Galilee (Mandated Territory), Jewish State, Arab State, and Jerusalem Enclave (Mandated Territory) in Palestine, and including (inset) Southern P...
File 10/23 Eastern and General Syndicate Limited: customs duty payable by.
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The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Resident at Bushire, the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Financial Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, and Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) representatives on customs liabilities and import duties payable by BAPCO fo...
File 34/6 Training of Women Teachers in Iraq for the Bahrain Government
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding a proposal to send Bahraini women to a teacher-training school in Iraq. The correspondence identifies the Queen Aliyah institute in Baghdad as being the best such school in Iraq.
File 4/16 B British Council: Expansion of Activities in Bahrain
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This file contains correspondence regarding a proposed extension of British Council activities in Bahrain. The majority of this correspondence is between Reginald George Evelin Alban, Britain's Political Agent in Bahrain, Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, Charles Geoffrey P...
This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Gilbert Laithwaite, India Office, London; the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; the Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station, Martin Eric Dunbar...
File 6/9 D F Chablani, Late of Eastern Bank, Bahrain
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The file relates to Darynamal [also spelled Darynomal] Fatehchand Chablani, who had been employed as a clerk by the Eastern Bank, Bahrain before returning to India. The file includes papers relating to a request by the Bahrain Government that the Political Agency Bahrain deny Chablani a visa in o...
‘File 7/2 VI Landing grounds and seaplane anchorages’
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The volume’s letters, telegrams and other papers relate to the installation, maintenance and extension of British air facilities along the Arab coast of the Gulf. The principle correspondents in the file are the Political Resident, the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Officer on the Tru...