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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Subject Arms control

1. IOR/R/15/1/42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/42
Title:
'Book No. 49'
Scope & Content:
The volume of private and secret letters contains correspondence from successive Residents in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, including Captain Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Captain David Wilson, Dr John MacNeil, Lieutenant Samuel Hennell and David Arnold Blane. The correspondence is to William Newnham,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1827-11 Feb 1836
Extent:
1 volume (96 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/124
Title:
File 8/7 Arms traffic; arms convention; prevention of slavery
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to arms trafficking and slavery in the Persian Gulf. Correspondence regarding arms trafficking takes up a small proportion of the file. It includes a printed copy of the British Government's Convention for the Control of the Trade in Arms and Ammunitio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
19 Oct 1922-10 Jun 1928
Extent:

1 volume (184 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/143
Title:
File 1/A/5 III ADMINISTRATION. QATAR AFFAIRS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence concerning Qatar affairs, particularly the issues of smuggling, and rationing. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain (Tom Hickinbotham); the Head Munshi of the Political Agency, Bahrain (Jassim bin Mohamed [Jasim ibn Muhammad Kadmari]);...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1944-6 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 volume (216 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/469

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/469
Title:
'11/7 SAUDI ARMS REGULATIONS'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns new arms regulations concerning the prohibition of the import, sale, carrying and possession of arms in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which were issued by Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] in October 1935. The correspondence in the file is between ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1936-15 Apr 1936
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/619

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/619
Title:
File 22/11 (22/8 III) DUBAI CUSTOMS AGITATIONS FOR REFORMS IN DUBAI
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a few letters and memoranda exchanged between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Residency Agent at Sharjah about imposing a temporary restriction on the importation of arms and ammunition by the Trucial Coast shaikhs, especially from Japan. There follows two memoranda...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1940-9 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (122 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/896-898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/896-898
Title:
File 41 Arms and Ammunition
Scope & Content:
The Arms and Ammunition subject files contain correspondence and papers relating to arms control, and incidents of arms theft or arms smuggling, occurring at Bahrain and elsewhere along the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf: arms licenses for the nakhudas of boats sailing on the Arab coast of the G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1945-1949
Extent:
3 files (207 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1334-1340

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1334-1340
Title:
File 9: Arms and Ammunition
Scope & Content:
The Arms and Ammunition subject files contain records concerning the request and issuing of No Objection Certificates, licenses and permits for the import, export and possession of arms, ammunitions, and other potentially lethal weapons such as explosives, marine flares, knives and daggers, and r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1938-1950
Extent:
7 files (769 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/6/70-71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/70-71
Title:
File 1 Arms Traffic
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series ‘File 1 Arms Traffic’ consists of one volume (1/1), and one file (also 1/1). The correspondence in this sub-sub-series is related to arms trafficking in Oman mainly in Muscat, Sur, Sohar, Dubai, Khor Fakkan, Masirah, Suwaiq, Sharjah, and the Batinah coastal towns. Among the ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1934-1947
Extent:
2 files (388 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/6/350

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/350
Title:
[Un-numbered File] Muscat Diary 1905-1907
Scope & Content:
This file contains several types of documentation with information on the condition of the country, arrivals and departures of ships, movement of British representatives, missionary enterprises, aviation etc. However, the bulk of the file consists of weekly reports containing the main political n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1907
Extent:
1 file (269 folios)