The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the import of certain items (such as refrigerators, furniture and motor cars) by the Bahrain Petroleum Company, the installation of radio-telephones and correspondence on the oil concessions in the Persi...
Coll 1/61(2) 'Aden. Policy of HMG in the Hadhramaut'
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This file is a continuation of Collection 1/61 (IOR/L/PS/12/1499) and consists of extensive correspondence, reports and minutes. The file opens with papers regarding efforts to remove Yemeni forces from Shabwa [Shabwah], and arrangements to open formal negotiations on the Aden Protectorate-Yeme...
Coll 5/56 ‘Air Services in the Eastern Mediterranean’
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The file predominantly consists of correspondence between HM Ambassador to Egypt (Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson) and the Foreign Office, with significant input from the Air Ministry. The subject matter is Britain's policy towards the development of civil aviation in Egypt; British policy being to...
Coll 6/18 'Arabia: Migration of Hejazis from Hejaz to Transjordan'
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This file is concerned with the migration of Hejazis from Hejaz to Transjordan. The file consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, which discuss rumours of disaffection among Hejazi tribesmen, and of their desertion from the Hejaz to Transjordan. The correspondenc...
Papers concerning affairs on the northeast frontiers of Persia [Iran], with a focus on Iranian Azerbaijan, sent to and from British Government officials based in Persia, including those at the British Consulate at Tabriz and the British Embassy in Tehran, and the Foreign Office in London. The c...
Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’
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Correspondence, memoranda, maps and other papers relating to the establishment of a precise position of the frontier between Persia [Iran], British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], and Afghanistan, arising in response to the proposed transfer to Persian ownership of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] ...
Coll 28/29 ‘Persia. Russia. Russian Refugees in Persia.’
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Correspondence and papers collected in response to an influx of refugees arriving in the northern provinces of Persia [Iran] from Soviet Russia, reaching a peak during 1932 and 1933, as a result of a chronic famine affecting parts of southern Russia. Extracts from consular diaries and intelligen...
[Affairs in] Arabia: Survey of the Kateef coast and complaint by [the] Turkish Government that [a] survey party landed on the Nejd coast.
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 169 of 1873, dated 2 October 1873, containing enclosures dated 28 July-2 October 1873. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the survey of the coast of Khateef [al-Qatif...
The Case of the Dhow Belonging to Ras-el Khyma which was Captured by HMS Dryad in May 1871
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Despatch from the Government of Bombay, Political Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 19 of 1872, dated 6 May 1872, comprising an enclosure dated 20 November 1871. The enclosure consists of a letter from John Kirk, Acting Political Agent and HM Consul, Zanzibar, to the Government...
Persian Gulf Matters: Strengthening the Detachment of Troops at Karrack and Defending the Residency at Bushire
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This item comprises a copy of [extracts of] an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter No. 30 of 1838, dated 24 October 1838. Annotated ‘Received via Marseilles 20 December 1838’. The letters in the enclosure are dated ...
