‘File 7/27 Closing down of Royal Air Force station, Muharraq in 1947 and arrangements for maintaining and servicing Muharraq aerodrome’
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The file’s correspondence and other papers relate to the cessation of Royal Air Force (RAF) activities at Muharraq, as well as at Sharjah. Correspondence takes place between the Political Resident and Political Agent, and various representatives of the RAF and civil aviation authorities. The corr...
File 32/13 (1 B/3) Payment of a Proportion of Visa Fees Collected by Consular Officers to the Bahrain Government
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This file contains a letter from Claud Cranbrook Lewis deGrenier (on behalf of the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain) to the Political Agency in Bahrain in which he inquires whether visa fees for entry to Bahrain that are collected outside of the country should be remitted to the Government o...
File 6/58 II Accession Celebrations on H. E. Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa's accession as the Ruler of Bahrain Island
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The file contains two letters. The first is from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, and gives notice of the subdued (due to war) celebrations to mark the anniversary of the accession of Shaikh Hamad bin 'Isa Al Khalifah [Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah] as ruler ...
File 9/6 I Arms & Ammunition. Rules and Regulations re- import of arms and ammunition into Foreign Countries
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This file contains correspondence between Hugh Weightman, the British Political Agent in Bahrain, with Samuel Burnside B McElderry, Chief Secretary to the Government of Zanzibar, and Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government. These correspondence concern the control of importation of le...
File 18/12 'Accommodation for the Staff of the Hon'ble the Political Resident when on Tour at Bahrain'
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This file contains correspondence regarding the rental of residential properties in Bahrain for the use of the staff of the Political Resident while on tour in the country. The correspondence is between officials at the Political Residency in Bushire, the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Manama ...
File 10/12 Desert news: defeat of Ikhwan by Ibn Sa`ud (Battle of Sibilla, 1929); operations against rebels
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This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and related political developments. Specifically, the correspondence in the file relates to tribal movements and disturbances in and around t...
File 4/22 I Construction of a Port in Kuwait Bay under Iraqi Control; Extension of the Iraqi Railway; Umm Qasr
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This file contains correspondence between British officials in Kuwait, Iraq, Britain and India concerning the political implications and practical logistics regarding a proposal to construct a port under Iraqi control in Kuwaiti territory (and a related proposal to link the port to Basra by rail...
Volume of incoming copy correspondence to William Bruce, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf from various correspondents within the East India Company discussing financial, administrative and political matters relating to the running of the residency at Bushire. Particular attention throughou...
This file consists of letters received by David Wilson, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, from William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay, and Charles Norris, Acting Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay. The letters cover the following subjects: the concerns of Mahomed B...
The volume contains letters received at Bushire from William Sowden Collinson, the Commodore of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, stationed at Bassadore [Bāsaʻīdū], and the Government of Bombay. The correspondence pertains to political affairs along the Arab Gulf coast, particularly...