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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Subject Slavery

11. IOR/R/15/1/226

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/226
Title:
File 5/193 II (B 38) Slavery in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The majority of the correspondence in the volume relates to Sir George Maxwell's report on slavery in Arabia, submitted to the League of Nations Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery in around 1936. The file should be read in conjunction with IOR/R/15/1/227, which contains a continuation of c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1930-18 Sep 1936
Extent:

1 volume (233 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/1/227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/227
Title:
File 5/193 III (B 46) Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains confidential correspondence related to the slave trade and slavery, exchanged between a number of British Government representatives. It should be read in conjunction with IOR/R/15/1/226, of which this file is a continuation, there being numerous references to it in some of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1936-4 Apr 1938
Extent:

1 volume (243 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/1/228

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/228
Title:
File 5/193 IV (B 55) Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains confidential correspondence relating to slavery and the slave trade. The first portion of the volume consists of correspondence exchanged between the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Fowle), the Political Agent Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), the Senior Naval Office...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1938-18 Jul 1939
Extent:

1 volume (276 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/2/79

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/79
Title:
File 1/4 Major Head:- Political. Subject:- Matters affecting Ruler of QATAR.
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the political affairs of Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani (there are various spellings in the file) [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī], Ruler of Qatar: especially relations with Bahrain, the British Government, and Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1922-20 Jul 1931
Extent:
1 volume (138 folios)

15. 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)

16. IOR/R/15/2/601-604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/601-604
Title:
File 20 Slavery: Slave Trade in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
These slavery files consist of confidential correspondence sent to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, relating to the nature and extent of slavery and the slave trade in the Gulf region. The files contain: reports and statistical data on the slave trade, gathered for the League of Nations ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1949
Extent:
4 files and volumes (1176 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/2/614

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/614
Title:
‘File 21/13 DETENTION OF MUSCAT SUBJECT BY AMIR OF ZAKRIT'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the abduction and enslavement of a young man from Muscat, who was found working at Petroleum Concessions Limited’s (PCL) oilfields in Qatar, and attempts by the Political Agent and others, including Saleh Al Mana [Ṣāliḥ Āl Māni‘], a representative of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1948-27 Jan 1949
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/2/1879

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1879
Title:
‘FILE. B/11. KIDNAPPING ON TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the investigation of individual cases of the kidnapping and sale into slavery of Arab and Persian inhabitants of Ajman, Dubai, Ras al Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm al Qiwin [Umm ul-Qaiwain]. These offences are committed mainly by Bedouins belonging to the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1936-20 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (321 folios)

19. IOR/R/15/5/96

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/96
Title:
'1/C III. Miscellaneous.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to a large number of miscellaneous topics: The discussion in the volume relates to the following topics: Expulsion of Hafidh Wahba from Bahrain, 1922. Proposals to reduce Gulf establishment, 1922. Rumours...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1921-2 Jan 1924
Extent:
1 volume (313 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/5/97

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/97
Title:
'1/C Volume IV Miscellaneous'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to a variety of miscellaneous topics in the period December 1923 to July 1924. The principal topics discussed are: A proposal to replace the Iraq Post Office in Kuwait, 1924. Purchase of land in Iraq by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1923-22 Jul 1924
Extent:
1 volume (312 folios)