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6511. IOR/R/15/2/919

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/919
Title:
File No. 1/7 RECESS CORRESPONDENCE
Scope & Content:
Correspondence from the Political Agent at Bahrain regarding periods of time spent on recess away from Bahrain. Information contained within the correspondence includes itineraries, forwarding addresses, details of cyphers and codes taken on recess, and details of intended conversations with ind...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1937-24 Aug 1946
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)

6512. IOR/R/15/2/920

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/920
Title:
File No. 1/8 CENTRE OF ARAB STUDIES - JERUSALEM
Scope & Content:
The file discusses the Centre for Arabic Studies at Jerusalem which was set up by Colonel Bertram Thomas to give students (primarily those from the Army and RAF) a years grounding in the Arabic language and in Arab culture. Included in the file are a report from Tom Hickinbotham, Political Age...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1944-4 Jun 1946
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

6513. IOR/R/15/2/923

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/923
Title:
'P.A's Private file (Major T. Hickinbotham C.I.E., O.B.E.)'
Scope & Content:
This file contains Arabic language correspondence between Major Tom Hickinbotham, Political Agent in Bahrain, and numerous Bahraini figures, including members of the ruling family (such as Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, the Ruler of Bahrain) and several prominent merchants. The correspon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1943-14 Sep 1944
Extent:
1 file (92 folios)

6514. IOR/R/15/2/924

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/924
Title:
'Reports of K'
Scope & Content:
The contents of the file relate to 'K' an individual whose name was at the time known only to the Political Agent (Percy Gordon Loch) and Head Munshi (Saiyid 'Abdul Razzaq) at Bahrain and who provided information and intelligence on affairs in the Persian Gulf, particularly attempts by American ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1934-25 Apr 1935
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

6515. IOR/R/15/2/925

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/925
Title:
File 4/1 (1.a/46) Arabic broadcasts by foreign stations
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a confidential circular memorandum (reference No.279-S of 1939) from Trenchard Craven William Fowle (Political Resident in the Persian Gulf), dated 30 March 1939 at the British Residency and Consulate-General, Bushire. It is addressed to the Political Agents for Bahrain, Kuw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Mar 1939-26 June 1939
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

6516. IOR/R/15/2/926

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/926
Title:
‘File 4/2 (1.a/50) M.E.I.C. publicity’
Scope & Content:
The file is about a change in administrative arrangements, following receipt of a general instruction in 1939, to send all future intelligence summaries to the new Middle East Intelligence Centre (M.E.I.C.) at Cairo. The file contains confidential, secret and most secret copy letters and telegr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1939- 26 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

6517. IOR/R/15/2/927

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/927
Title:
‘File 4/3 (1.a/51) Propaganda’
Scope & Content:
The file contains exchanges of secret and confidential letters, memoranda and telegrams, mainly between Major Reginald George Evelyn William Alban and his successor Cornelius James Pelly (British Political Agents, Bahrain); Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior (Political Resident in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1940-23 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

6518. IOR/R/15/2/928

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/928
Title:
‘File 4/6 (1B/1) Reports of Treaty of Alliance between U.K. and Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file contains confidential dispatch no.239 dated 25 July 1934 from Mr A.S. Calvert (chargé d’affaires, British Legation, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) to Sir John Simon (British Foreign Secretary, Foreign Office, London). Calvert also sent copies of his dispatch to the Viceroy of India and to the Po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1934 - 25 Aug 1934
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

6519. IOR/R/15/2/929

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/929
Title:
‘File 4/8 (2/4a) Article regarding Bahrain-U.K. Treaty; Dismissal of Ali bin Hussain, Secretary to the Manama Municipality’
Scope & Content:
The file contains an exchange of confidential correspondence, following Arab press reports of a new friendship treaty between the Sheikhs of Bahrain and the British Government. The correspondence is mainly between Meredith Worth (Officiating Political Agent, Bahrain), Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Go...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1934-19 Jan 1936
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

6520. IOR/R/15/2/930

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/930
Title:
File 4/9 (2/7) "AL BAHRAIN" NEWSPAPER
Scope & Content:
The file contains an exchange of confidential correspondence, following a formal protest made by Ibn Sa’ud (King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia) to the Minister at the British Legation in Jeddah, about publication of an article in the newspaper Al Bahrain on 26 November 1942. The correspondence is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1942-21 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

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