Coll 5/43 ‘Night flying facilities in the Persian Gulf in connection with the Empire Air Mail Scheme’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, meeting notes (at the Air Ministry on 9 November 1934 and 22 March 1935), and memoranda regarding proposals to introduce night flying across the Persian Gulf as part of the Empire Air Mail Scheme. The focus of the file is on the following routes: Cairo-Karachi a...
Coll 7/40 'Persia: carrying of arms by Persian authorities while escorting prisoners on British boats'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding British India Steamship Navigation Company regulations that armed Persian [Iranian] Officers should give up their weapons when transporting prisoners on vessels flying the British flag. The correspondence dated 1930 concerns the arrest of Sirdar Din Mohamed of Dashtyari...
Coll 25/24 'Orders in Council: Bahrain: King's Regulation No. 2 of 1937; Bahrain Passport Regulations, 1937'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, drafts, and minute papers relating to the passing of The Bahrain Passport Regulation, 1937'. The regulation was seen as necessary for addressing the large numbers of people entering Bahrain without valid passports or visas. The interdepartmental consultation over the drafting and ...
Coll 28/10 ‘Persia. Diaries; Meshed Consular Jany 1931 – May 1940. Khorassan Political 1934 – May 1940. Khorassan Fortnightly Reports’
Scope & Content:
Confidential political diaries submitted on a fortnightly basis throughout 1931, on a monthly basis from May 1932, returning to a fortnightly basis in September 1939, by the British Consul General at Khorassan [Khorāsān] (Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett; Major Clive Kirkpatrick ...
Coll 28/38(2) ‘Statistique commerciale de la Perse; Tableau General du Commerce avec les Pays Etrangers pendant l’année 1309 (22 Mars 1930 – 21 Mars 1931) publié par l’Administration des Douanes’
Scope & Content:
Printed volume (in French) of statistics and texts illustrating trade between Persia [Iran] and foreign countries, for the Iran calendar year 1309 (equivalent to 1930/31 in the Gregorian calendar). The volume was published by the Persian Customs Administration in Tehran, 1931. Key chapters in th...
Coll 28/38(5) ‘Statistique commerciale de la Perse; Tableau General du commerce avec Pays Etrangers pendant l’année du 1er Tir 1311 au 31 Khordad 1312 (23 Juin 1932 – 21 Juin 1933) publié par l’Administration des Douanes’
Scope & Content:
Printed volume (in French) of statistics and texts illustrating trade between Persia [Iran] and foreign countries, for the period 1 Tir 1311 to 31 Khordad 1312 in the Iranian calendar (equivalent to 22 June 1932 to 21 June 1933 in the Gregorian calendar). The volume was published by the Persian ...
Coll 29/98 'Ahwaz: Vice Consulate and Consulate-General'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns appointments at the HM Vice-Consulate at Ahwaz and its elevation to Consulate-General, in 1942. The file covers: appointment of Arthur Wooller as Vice-Consul in 1941 and leave requests appointment of A E H Macann as Consul-General in 1942 temporary appointment of Arthur Woolle...
Coll 30/70 'Bahrain: Amendment of contracts of Capt Parke, Commandant of Police, & Mr Belgrave, Adviser to the Sheikh of Bahrain: leave of Mr Belgrave, etc.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the terms of service of British officials working for the Government of Bahrain, principally Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent, Bahrain; Belgrav...
Coll 30/103 'Basidu: Position of the inhabitants of Basidu in the event of evacuation by His Majesty's Government.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns discussions over the position of the inhabitants of Basidu [on the island of Qeshm], in the event of its evacuation by the British Government. Basidu was a former naval depot that had been under British control since [circa] 1820. However, in the opinion of the Law Officers, Br...
Coll 30/160(3) 'Measures to influence Persia in time of war. Question of supply of railway material to Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply by the Government of India of railway material to the Government of Iran. The supply of such material was seen by the British Government as a means of influencing certain minor powers in the Middle East in favour of the British on the outbreak of war [the Second Worl...
