Coll 30/157 'Bahrein: Medical Officer to Bahrein Govt. Bahrain Govt. Hospital, and recruitment of European Nurses.'
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The file covers the recruitment of a Medical Officer by the Government of Bahrain in 1938, and the recruitment of nurses in the United Kingdom: applications, references, and travel expenses, 1941-48. The file includes correspondence with Charles Dalrymple Belgrave (Adviser to the Government of ...
Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast'
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Correspondence and minute papers concerning the slave trade in Saudi Arabia and the Trucial Coast. The papers consist of intelligence reports, parliamentary notices, memoranda, letters, and telegrams. Matters covered by the file include: Concern over a lack of application of anti-slavery legisla...
Coll 48/1 'Future of India's Foreign relations(as affected by Constitutional Reforms): appointment of Indian representatives to diplomatic posts abroad. Question of future representation in Persia and the Persian Gulf.'
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The papers (letters, memoranda, and compliments slips) relate to the administrative arrangements for facilitating diplomatic representation for India to follow the envisaged constitutional reform of independence. The correspondence reflects the development of British thinking on the nature of In...
Memorandum by Mr Bertie on Questions with the Porte in the Persian Gulf, August 1892 to October 1893.
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The memorandum, written by Francis Leveson Bertie of the Foreign Office, 15 October 1893, discusses questions relating to the Guttur or El-Katr [Qatar] following rumours that the Ottoman Government intended to separate England from the Sheikhs on the Arabian Coastline of the Persian Gulf that ha...
[Letter] from Brigadier-General C H U Price, Political Resident, Aden, to the Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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This file contains a letter by Brigadier-General Charles Henry Uvedale Price in which he forwards a report on a visit to the Idrissi [Idrisi] Saiyid by Major Charles Richard Bradshaw, General Staff, Aden, to the Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay. The documents discuss the cam...
Sir Percy Sykes's Position. Viceroy's Telegram of 28 February 1917. Note by Political Secretary, India Office.
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This file consists of a note which concerns Sir Percy Sykes's position as commander of the South Persian Rifles [South Persia Rifles]. The note, written by the Secretary to the Political Department, India Office [Sir Arthur Hirtzel], is written in response to a telegram, dated 28 February 1917 a...
File 747/1913 Pt 3 'Persia: LOANS. (1914-18) [Cost of Swedish Gendarmerie].'
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The volume comprises copies of correspondence, Memoranda, minutes, telegrams, and other papers mainly between the British Ministry at Tehran; and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The correspondence is relating to the financial difficulties of the Persian Government and the question of loa...
This volume contains parts 4 and 5 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. It documents the efforts of British officials to persuade both Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the Grand Sherif [Sharif] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī] to side with the British against the...
This volume contains parts 11 and 12 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. The volume concerns relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Ibn Saud] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz], and...
The volume contains parts 1, 2 and 3 of the subject ‘Persia – Admiralty Oil Commission’. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/410/1) concerns the Admiralty Oil Commission, which is also referred to as Admiral Slade’s Committee. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/410/2) concerns the Admiralty’s contract with the Anglo-Persian O...
