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1601. IOR/R/15/2/500

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/500
Title:
File 12/10 Tours of the Honourable the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, Hugh Weightman, mostly from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political agent at Sharjah, regarding arrangements and programmes for his official visits to the Persian Gulf in 1939 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Feb 1935-30 Apr 1945
Extent:
1 file (239 folios)

1602. IOR/R/15/2/511

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/511
Title:
‘File 13/4 I Facilities for foreign air companies to use Arabian Air Route’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence relating to requests from foreign airlines – chiefly the Dutch company Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KLM) and Air France – to use the air route following the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf, and its aerodrome facilities at Bahrain, Gwadur [Gwādar, then a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
22 Sep 1932-30 Nov 1937
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

1603. IOR/R/15/2/602

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/602
Title:
File 20/1 II Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to a number of issues concerning the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region: Correspondence related to the League of Nations Advisory Committee of Experts, and its request for information about slavery in the Persian Gulf region. The papers include ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1937-21 Jul 1938
Extent:

1 volume (283 folios)

1604. IOR/R/15/2/641

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/641
Title:
‘File 25/5 Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a copy of the Charter of the United Nations (ff 5-10), signed on 26 June 1945, on the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, held in San Francisco. Also included in the file, as part of the Charter, is a printed copy of the Statute of the Inte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1946-1 Jun 1946
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

1605. IOR/R/15/2/738

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/738
Title:
‘File 28/43 Removal of the pilot-balloon observatory in a grave emergency’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence relating to the operation of Bahrain’s Pilot Balloon Observatory, used to recorded meteorological data, during wartime. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); and the Superintending Meteorolo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1942-28 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

1606. IOR/R/15/2/889

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/889
Title:
File 39/23 I Negotiations for seabed oil in Bahrain, Trucial Coast and Qatar
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of letters, in English and Arabic, sent by the Political Agent at Bahrain to the local rulers requesting them to issue a proclamation claiming their jurisdiction over the seabed adjacent to the coasts of Qatar, Bahrain, and Abu Dhabi. A copy of the draft proclamation is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1948-2 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

1607. 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)

1608. IOR/R/15/2/1008

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1008
Title:
File 1/22 Handing Over and Taking Over by the Head Clerks on Transfer: Correspondence re
Scope & Content:
The file contains records of valuables kept on deposit [some as a result of legal cases], and firearms, ammunition, documents, and other items stored securely at the Political Agency, Bahrain. The papers include statements, lists, notes, receipts, and a small amount of correspondence, and cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Nov 1930-3 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (89 folios)

1609. IOR/R/15/2/1399

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1399
Title:
‘File 13/5 II Registration of: - Deaths, Births and Marriages’
Scope & Content:
The file contains numerous quarterly death returns for British and British Indian subjects who died in Bahrain. These were compiled by the Political Agent, Bahrain and sent to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. There are several birth and death certificates, marriage notices a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1936-1 Oct 1942
Extent:
1 file (314 folios)

1610. IOR/R/15/2/1501

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1501
Title:
‘16/8 Miscellaneous:- Surveyor required for Khassab to take temperature readings under British Residency Bushire’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning a request from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, made to the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) via the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Reginald George Evelin William Alban), for a surveyor, who is required to take temperatur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1927-17 May 1928
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

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