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 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...
This volume pertains to the wartime censorship of communication to and from Muscat during the Second World War. In particular, the volume's papers contain instructions from the Government of India to the Political Agency in Muscat on the precise parameters of wartime censorship in multiple langua...
This file contains a brief from the British Consulate in Muscat on the movements of a possible member of a regional nationalist party, and its members in Muscat. However, the short exchange between the Political Resident in Bahrain and the Agent in Muscat indicates no immediate suspicion of intri...
The file is a duplicate index of IOR/Z/R/15/1/8, showing those A series files originally created by staff at the Persian Gulf Residency, that survived weeding during the process of the transfer of the Bushire files to the Foreign Office in London. Unlike IOR/Z/R/15/1/8 there is no top-level inde...
This file contains miscellaneous correspondence consisting primarily of letters between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent in Muscat. The subject matter of the correspondence covers a range of subjects, most of them pertaining to the resolution of commercial and le...
This file contains papers relating to a number of political, logistical and economic topics, listed on the front cover of the file, and divided into sections accordingly. These include a memorandum on geographical knowledge of Oman by Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles from May 1879; Fujaira...