Coll 35/31 'Bahrain: application for W/T amateur transmitting licence for employee of Bahrain Petroleum Company'
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The file concerns the application by a British subject in Bahrain for the issue of an amateur wireless transmitting license, and the allotment of a wireless call sign. The file contains a booklet 'A guide to Amateur Radio' (folios 40-123), by Radio Society of Great Britain. The file contains c...
Memorandum Regarding the Relations with the Tribes in the Vicinity of Aden, especially in Reference to the Amir of Zhali.
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A memorandum written by the Assistant Political Resident at Aden, Major John Muir Hunter, suggesting proposals to formalise with treaties British relations with a number of tribes in the vicinity of Aden in order to limit the encroaching influence of the Turkish Porte. He also suggests pensioning...
No. 1. Anglo-Turkish Agreement. Collection of documents signed on July 29, 1913.
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The item consists of a collection of documents signed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Edward Grey) and the Grand Vizier of Ottoman Empire (Ibrahim Hakki Pasha) on 29 July 1913. It contains the following: a convention concerning the establishment of a commission to improve the con...
Agreement for the exploitation of sulphur in Kuwait [between] His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and Eastern Gulf Oil Company Limited
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The file is concerned with an agreement between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Eastern Gulf Oil Company Limited, which relates to the exploitation of sulphur in Kuwait agreed between the Shaik of Kuwait and the Eastern Gulf Oil Company Limited. This agreement outlines the...
'Memo by Capt O St John R. E. on the Persian Frontier East of the Caspian of 15 May 1874'
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The memorandum — dated 15 May 1874 — describes the Persian frontier east of the Caspian Sea; this includes the upper valley of the River Atrak [Atrek], the districts of Derehgaz [Dargaz], and Kalet-i-Nadiri [Kalāt-e Nāderī]. The author is Captain Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John, and the memora...
Persian Government Restriction on the Storing of Grain and Provisions Imported by Foreign Merchants
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Letter and Enclosures to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 24 October 1871. The papers cover: British concerns that the restriction amounted to a ban on imports at a time when Persia was being depopulated by famine; report by William John Dickson, Oriental Secretary at the British Legation...
Letter from Major Rawlinson at Candahar to George William Anderson, Acting Governor of Bombay
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A copy of a letter from Major J[?] C [most likely Henry Creswicke] Rawlinson at Candahar [Kandahar] to George William Anderson, acting Governor of Bombay, dated 25 May 1841, enclosed in a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Pollard Willoughby, to the Chairman, received vi...
General No. 6 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of Papers Regarding the Attack on the Steam-ship Cashmere
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This item consists of copies of a General Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, forwarding copies of papers regarding the attack on the steam-ship Cashmere, in continuation of Despatch No. 39 of 10 October 1872, and with reference to the let...
Persian Gulf: Relative to the tranquillity of the -.
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This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch Volume 10 of 8 February 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Governmen...
Persian Gulf: Shaik Sultan bin Suggurol Rasul Khymah, complaint of -.
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This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch Volume 18 of 8 February 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Governmen...
