Ext 2919/47 'Request for General Staff maps of the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf (Kuwait, etc)'
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This file contains correspondence regarding a request made by the Iraq Petroleum Company to the Commonwealth Relations Office for three maps of the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf. The Iraq Petroleum Company asks that the maps be sheets of the 1:500,000 series of maps issued by the General S...
Coll 5/40 ‘Air Route to India (Persian Gulf): Increase in frequency of Imperial Airways Service’
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The file contains a notification from the Air Ministry (folio 18) dated 10 December 1934, informing the India Office of a proposal by Imperial Airways to duplicate their service between the United Kingdom (UK) and India. It also contains an explanatory note prepared for a meeting at the Air Mini...
Coll 20/14(4) 'Muscat: General discussions with Sultan during his visit to India and UK in 1937/38'
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Correspondence concerning conversations held or thought likely to be held between British officials and the Sultan of Muscat, Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] during his visits to India and the United Kingdom in 1937-38. The papers include notes on discussions between the Sultan an...
Coll 28/44A ‘Persia; Internal; Fars Affairs; Lt G. F. Magee’s report entitled “The Tribes of Fars”’
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Typescript copy of a secret report entitled The Tribes of Fars, written by Lieutenant G F Magee of the Intelligence Corps of the British Army, dated November 1945 (ff 9-236). Cover notes and a single item of correspondence, referring to arrangements for the printing of the report by the Governme...
Coll 28/47 ‘Persia. Judicial. Obligation of foreign subjects to deposit security for costs in law suits.’
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Correspondence concerning a law passed by the Persian Government in 1929 that obliged foreign subjects in Persia [Iran] to deposit security for costs in law suits brought before the ’Adliyeh (Courts of the Persian Ministry of Justice). The correspondence, chiefly exchanged between HM’s Envoy Ext...
Coll 28/55A ‘Persia. Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Press Cuttings regarding Persian Govt’s Cancellation of D’Arcy Concession.’
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The volume is comprised wholly of press cuttings taken from a range of British newspapers (chiefly the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Manchester Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Times, the Daily Herald, the News Chronicle, the Daily Worker), relating to: the Persian Government’s annulment ...
The file contains copies of Hamadan monthly diaries from February 1946 to May 1947, by the HM Vice-Consul at Hamadan, sent to the Secretary of State for India by the Foreign Office.
Coll 30/35 'Persian Gulf, Survey of Koweit Neutral Zone. Status & History of the Neutral Zone'
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the status and history of the neutral zone between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The correspondence is between officials at the British Legation in Jeddah, the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Political Agency in Kuwait, the...
Coll 30/72 'Foreign Shipping in: Inauguration of regular steamship service from Italy by the Lloyd Triestino Company.'
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The file concerns the introduction of a 'subsidised' shipping service into the Persian Gulf by the Italian shipping company Lloyd Triestino. The Foreign Office viewed the development with concern, at a time of increasing international interest in the Persian Gulf. The papers cover: summary of f...
Coll 30/212 'Essential undertakings in: BAHREIN PETROLEUM COMPANY, etc. Proposed grant of passages to wives & fiancées of employees of B.P.C. Visas for same. And other undertakings.'
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The file concerns unrest and discontentment amongst British employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain, which led to discussions between British officials and the company about ways to allow employees to go on leave to the United Kingdom or receive visits in Bahrain from their...
