'TRAFFIC IN ARMS IN THE PERSIAN GULF, &c. 1880-98 & 1899-99'.
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This volume contains copies of two publications: ‘Part I. Correspondence respecting Trade in Arms in Persia, Muscat, &c. 1880-1898’ ‘Part II. Further Correspondence respecting the Traffic in Arms in the Persian Gulf, &c. 1898-99.’ These publications were printed for the use of the Foreig...
File 1202/1912 'Arabia:- Travellers. Capt. F. F Hunter. Herr Runkiar (Danish Expedition). Capt Shakespear.'
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The volume concerns expeditions by British officers and by the Royal Danish Geographical Society into the interior of Arabia. The papers cover: plans by the Royal Danish Geographical Society to explore the countries around the Persian Gulf, 1909; the refusal of British officials to sanction a p...
File 5924/1920 Pt 1 ‘Persia: Financial Position of Persian Govt. Possibility of consolidating external debt’
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This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding British claims on their loans to Persia [Iran], and Persia’s financial affairs generally. The papers notably cover: Details of the loans, including British claims, recovery of interest owed, and regulation ...
File P 1477/1925 Pt 1 ‘Persia: Capitulations: Denunciation of treaties granting extra- territorial privileges.’
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The volume contains correspondence relating to the Persian Government’s denunciation of treaties with foreign countries in which capitulatory rights of foreign nationals in Persia [Iran] were embodied. The treaties with Persia that secure extra-territorial rights for foreign nationals fall into t...
Ext 2497/47 'Education of the Shaikh Hamad of Bahrain'
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This file contains correspondence regarding the education of Shaikh Hamad bin Mohammed bin Isa of Bahrain, and the extension of his studies either in the United States or in the United Kingdom. Related matters of discussion include the following: permission for Shaikh Hamad to study abroad, gra...
Coll 17/10(4) 'Internal: political situation; relations with HMG'
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This file is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2862. It contains correspondence and memoranda regarding relations between HM Government (HMG) and the Government of Iraq, and documents the reaction of the India Office and Foreign Office to political developments within Iraq. The file opens with descr...
The first part of the file (ff 52-75) contains correspondence dated 1932, exchanged between: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare; John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office; George William Rendel of the Foreign Office; Cecil Claude Farrer of th...
Question of British Interference in the Administration of Bahrain
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Despatch from the Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, 28 August 1929. Printed in October 1929. Covering: a brief history of the development of British concern in the internal af...
‘Sheet No. I. Map of Shatt-al-’Arab & Bahmanshīr. Including Muhammareh & ‘Abbádán I.’
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Map labelled ‘Map No.3’, produced in July 1912 by the War Office. The map is one of two sheets (the second following on f 263) covering the Shatt-al-’Arab, Bahmanshīr, Abbádán [Abadan] and Muhammareh [Khorramshahr]. Notes under the title of the map state that it was compiled under the supervisio...
‘Sheet No. I. Map of Shatt-al-’Arab & Bahmanshīr. Including Muhammareh & ‘Abbádán II.’
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Map labelled ‘Map No.4’, produced in July 1912 by the War Office. The map is the second of two sheets (the first being on f 263) covering the Shatt-al-’Arab, Bahmanshīr, Abbádán [Abadan] and Muhammareh [Khorramshahr]. The map shows the area immediately to the south of that shown in the first she...
