File 2182/1913 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: Policy towards Bin Saud (Capt. Shakespear's Mission)'
Scope & Content:
Part 4 primarily concerns British policy towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], following the outbreak of the First World War. It includes the following: discussion regarding Bin Saud's relations with the Ottoman government, and the need for the British to secur...
Coll 1/30 'Aden Protectorate: extension of the limit of the Red Sea Patrol to include the Gulf of Aden, Socotra and British Somaliland'
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The file contains papers regarding a suggestion by the Aden Political Resident (Bernard Reilly) that the limits of the Red Sea Patrol be extended to include the whole of the Gulf of Aden. The file includes correspondence received from the Board of the Admiralty, the Air Ministry, and the Govern...
Coll 5/16 ‘Air Route to India: Occasional landings at Koweit – Agreements between the Sheikh of Koweit and British Overseas Airways Corporation’
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The file contains correspondence regarding civil aviation matters in Kuwait (also spelt Koweit in the file). The primary focus is the negotiation of a Civil Air Agreement between the British Government and the Shaikh of Kuwait, Shaikh Sir Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] ...
Coll 7/36 'Afghanistan: sale of 1914 pattern rifles to the Afghan government; incidence of liability between Indian and Imperial revenues'
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This file is a continuation of Collection 7/23, reference IOR/L/PS/12/2191. It contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Secretary of State for India, HM Minister at Kabul, the War Office, the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, and the Ind...
Coll 26/14 (3): 'PALESTINE: Supply of Information to P.R.P.G: Developments affecting the Persian Gulf and Aden'
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This file contains correspondence on developments in Palestine and their reverberations in the Persian Gulf states and the Protectorate of Aden from 25 November 1947 to 27 October 1948. The correspondence is primarily between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Commonwealth Relations ...
Coll 29/45(4) 'Conditions of service of ministerial staff'
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The file concerns the conditions of service, pay rates, and terms of employment of Indian and Anglo-Indian ministerial staff employed at the Persian Gulf Residency after 1947. The file contains: statements of Ministerial Establishments and posts (including gazetted posts and medical staff) in t...
Coll 29/53 'Khorramshahr (Mohammerah): house, launch, motor car, office accommodation'
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The file concerns the Vice-Consulate at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr, Iran]. The file contains correspondence related to: donation of land for sixty years from Shaikh of Mohammerah to build a consulate, 1912 provision of accommodation, office, and car for Vice-Consul, 1929 costs of alterations and ...
Coll 30/192(3) ‘Persian Gulf. Defence of Bahrein (a) Employment of British officer & N.C.O. Instructor. Appt. of Capt A.C. Byard. (b) Bahrein Defence Force – Recruitment from personnel of Bahrein Petroleum Company.’
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The file consists of two folders of papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the defence of Bahrain: folder A ‘Bahrein Defence Scheme. Employment of British officer & N.C.O. Instructor. Appt. of Captain A. C. Byard. “ ” Major H.T. Hewitt.’ [‘Bahrein Defence Scheme. Employment of British of...
Coll 35/20 'Persian Gulf: Bahrain; installation of a telephone communication between the wireless station of Imperial and International Communications Ltd at Manamah and the landing ground at Muharraq'
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The initial part of the file concerns the negotiations for the installation of a telephone service between the wireless station of Imperial and International Communications Ltd at Manamah and the landing ground at Muharraq, in 1934-35. The second part contains correspondence from 1944, focusing ...
Memorandum by the Rev. G. P. Badger on the Pretensions of Persia in Beloochistan and Mekran, drawn up with especial reference to her Claim to Gwadur and Charbar
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This file consists of a memorandum by George Percy Badger (scholar and missionary) concerning Persian claims in Beloochistan [Baluchistan] and Mekran [Makran], particularly Gwadel or Gwadur [Gwādar] and Charbar [Chābahār]. It contains the following: a history of Persian encroachments in Beloochi...
