The file contains correspondence between the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) representative and the Political Agent at Bahrain on the presence of marine borers in the Persian Gulf.
This file contains correspondence regarding attempts by Hugh Weightman, the Political Agent in Bahrain to encourage British nationals working in the country to make a monthly contribution to British war charities. The file contains a copy of a letter that was sent by Weightman to all British wo...
This file contains correspondence relating to the region of Dhofar and the authority of the Sultan of Muscat over it. The letters are primarily exchanges between the British government in Bombay, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, as well as copies of less frequent letters from Sultan T...
File A/7 Miscellaneous correspondence with Muhammerah
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The file contains correspondence relating to two separate matters, one dating from 1932 and the other from 1940. The first matter relates to a financial claim being made by an Indian tailor residing in Bahrain, against an Anglo-Persian [Anglo-Iranian] Oil Company employee from Abadan in Persia [I...
File A/8 Correspondence regarding extradition of persons
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The file contains correspondence relating to four separate extradition requests in the Persian Gulf region, sent to the Bahrain Political Agency. In the first case Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Ruler of Bahrain, sought the extradition of a Bahraini subject alleged to have misappropriated mo...
The file comprises eighteen manumission application cases numbered 13 to 30, cases 1 to 12 being contained in the Bahrain Agency file 'File A/11 I Slave cases Trucial Coast' (IOR/R/15/2/1851). The files contain a total of sixty-nine individual manumission applications (as well as one woman’s app...
File F/5 'Correspondence with Bahrain Municipalities'
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This file contains correspondence and meeting minutes sent from the Manama Municipality's governing board to the Political Agency, and their translations. The meeting minutes focus particularly on the actions and decision's of the municipality's various committees. The documents also contain bala...