Ext 4075/42 Movements of Mr W Taylor wishing to return from Bahrain to UK
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The file contains correspondence between the Government of India, External Department, the Foreign Office, and the Secretary of State for India, regarding Wilfred Taylor, a BAPCO employee wishing to return to the UK from Bahrain with his wife and son. The file also contains two letters from Taylo...
Coll 1/18 'Judicial. Application to Aden of certain Indian Acts: Patents, Foreigners, Deportations'
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The file contains correspondence dated 1929 between the India Office Political Department and the firm of Boote, Edgar & Rylands, regarding the enforcement of the Indian Patents and Designs Act (1911) in Aden courts; plus internal correspondence and notes thereon. The correspondence dated 1...
Coll 5/67 ‘Crashes of British aircraft in neutral countries during the war’
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The file contains a small number of papers related to the crashes of Royal Air Force (RAF) machines in neutral countries; the file focuses on neutral countries of interest to the India Office. The vast majority of the papers focus on a single incident in September 1939: the crash landing of an R...
Coll 7/25 'Persia and Persian Gulf: proposed Anglo-Persian Convention'
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The file contains correspondence regarding attempts to negotiate an Anglo-Persian arms convention, intended to regulate arms traffic in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence concerns the following: the changing patterns of arms traffic in the Persian Gulf; Persian attitudes to the Slave Traffic ...
Coll 25/3 'Orders in Council: Bahrein; Reports on Working 1930'
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Annual reports on the workings of the Bahrain Order-in-Council, 1913 for the years 1927-46. The reports contain information on the civil and criminal cases tried and the numbers of British subjects and British protected persons registered during each year. The reports were written by the Politic...
Coll 28/16 ‘Persia; Imperial Bank of Persia; relations with the Persian Government.’
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Copies of correspondence and other papers relating to British Government officials’ response to the deteriorating state of relations between the Persian Government and the Imperial Bank of Persia, in light of the Persian Government’s imposition of restraints upon the bank (such as monopoly laws,...
Coll 28/73 ‘Persia. Relations with Turkey. Visit of the Shah to Angora.’
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Reports from HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare, and the British Ambassador in Turkey, Percy Lyham Loraine, along with newspaper cuttings from The Times, The Near East and India and The Evening Standard, reporting on the Shah of Persia’s [Reza ...
Coll 28/79 ‘Persia. attacks by brigands. etc. on foreign subjects in Persia.’
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Correspondence and papers relating to incidents in which foreigners in Persia [Iran], specifically British subjects, were subjected to attacks or break-ins, and in some cases badly injured. The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran; ...
Correspondence and other papers concerning the Persian [Iranian] Government’s renewed desire in 1937 to finalise a treaty of friendship between Britain and Iran (also referred to in the file as the Anglo-Persian Consular Convention). The papers, chiefly exchanged between HM Envoy Extraordinary a...
Coll 28/119 ‘Persia [Iran] Internment & repatriation of enemy nationals in Persia.’
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Secret correspondence concerning the internment or repatriation of enemy nationals in Persia [Iran] during the Second World War. The correspondence covers: the estimated numbers of enemy nationals in Persia, including Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Italians, Romanians, Estonians and...
