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51. IOR/R/15/2/1569

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1569
Title:
‘File 16/57 II Routine correspondence with Agencies and Consulates other than Bushire.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers of a routine nature, exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain, and other British offices in the Persian Gulf, including those at Kuwait, Muscat, Sharjah, and Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The file is a direct chronological continuation of File 16/57 I R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1947-3 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (118 folios)

52. IOR/R/15/2/1571

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1571
Title:
‘16/59 Correspondence regarding Government of India Gazette.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the reorganisation and distribution of the Gazette of India. The file contains a circular letter from the Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, dated 18 April 1944, detailing sections of the Gazette and its sale and annual subscription prices (folio 3). The fi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1944-7 Jun 1944
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

53. IOR/R/15/2/1588

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1588
Title:
‘File No. 16/78 National Insurance Publicity’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1946, including: a copy of a leaflet entitled Persons Abroad on 5 July, 1948, issued in June 1948 by the Ministry of National Insurance, detailing benefits and contributions for people eligible for National Insurance, but who a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1948-26 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

54. IOR/R/15/2/1592

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1592
Title:
‘File No. 16/84 List of staff of the Development Division, British Middle East Office, Cairo.’
Scope & Content:
Lists of members of the Development Division of the British Middle East Office (BMEO). The lists provide members’ names, and short biographical backgrounds for each member. Correspondence from the BMEO detailing the departure from or arrival of new members to the Division is included in the file’...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Oct 1949-14 Sep 1950
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

55. IOR/R/15/2/1681

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1681
Title:
File 21/29 Proposal regarding aeroplane for Political Agent, Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains notes and correspondence relating to the proposal for the purchase or loan of an aircraft for the use of the Political Agent in Bahrain. The correspondence is between: Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent at Bahrain; Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Oct 1935-12 Apr 1937
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

56. IOR/R/15/2/1821

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1821
Title:
‘Foreign Office budget for the year 1949-50 and six monthly expenditure etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to the accounts (actual expenditure and estimated budget) of the Political Agencies at Bahrain and Sharjah: a copy of a circular written by Ernest Bevin, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 18 July 1946, requesting returns from overseas agencies ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jul 1946-30 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (50 folios)

57. IOR/R/15/2/1984

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1984
Title:
‘Office Orders. Vol.1 (Closed)’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises orders made by the Political Agent at Bahrain, pertaining to the administration of the Agency, and in some cases to the administration of the Victoria Memorial Hospital. Orders are numbered, dated, and signed by the Political Agent. The volume includes: orders registering t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1900-11 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 volume (132 folios)

58. IOR/R/15/2/1985

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1985
Title:
‘Office Orders II’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises orders made by the Political Agent at Bahrain, pertaining to the administration of the Agency, and in some cases to the administration of the Victoria Memorial Hospital. The file is a direct chronological continuation of the file ‘Office Orders. Vol.1 (Closed)’ (IOR/R/15/2/1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1937-21 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 volume (184 folios)

59. IOR/R/15/5/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/1
Title:
‘I/1 First Appointment of a Pol: Agent to Koweit, (Capt S. G. Knox).’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence sent and letter received by the Political Agent at Kuwait (Captain Stuart George Knox): a letter from Knox describing his arrival in Kuwait, the Ruler of Kuwait’s [Shaikh Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] response to his arrival, accommodation and food offered by the Shaikh, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1904-30 Mar 1908
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

60. IOR/R/15/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/2
Title:
‘I/10. Confidential papers re Agency staff.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers, including confidential notes, relating to staff at the Political Agency in Kuwait (including the News Agent, Assistant Surgeon, and Head Clerk). Many of the papers relate to the recruitment, departure, and transfer of staff between British offices in the Persian Gulf, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Sep 1904-14 Nov 1928
Extent:
1 file (215 folios)