File 12/10 Tours of the Honourable the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, Hugh Weightman, mostly from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political agent at Sharjah, regarding arrangements and programmes for his official visits to the Persian Gulf in 1939 ...
‘File 13/4 I Facilities for foreign air companies to use Arabian Air Route’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence relating to requests from foreign airlines – chiefly the Dutch company Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KLM) and Air France – to use the air route following the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf, and its aerodrome facilities at Bahrain, Gwadur [Gwādar, then a...
The volume contains correspondence related to a number of issues concerning the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region: Correspondence related to the League of Nations Advisory Committee of Experts, and its request for information about slavery in the Persian Gulf region. The papers include ...
‘File 25/5 Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a copy of the Charter of the United Nations (ff 5-10), signed on 26 June 1945, on the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, held in San Francisco. Also included in the file, as part of the Charter, is a printed copy of the Statute of the Inte...
‘File 28/43 Removal of the pilot-balloon observatory in a grave emergency’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence relating to the operation of Bahrain’s Pilot Balloon Observatory, used to recorded meteorological data, during wartime. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); and the Superintending Meteorolo...
File 39/23 I Negotiations for seabed oil in Bahrain, Trucial Coast and Qatar
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of letters, in English and Arabic, sent by the Political Agent at Bahrain to the local rulers requesting them to issue a proclamation claiming their jurisdiction over the seabed adjacent to the coasts of Qatar, Bahrain, and Abu Dhabi. A copy of the draft proclamation is ...
‘File 4/8 (2/4a) Article regarding Bahrain-U.K. Treaty; Dismissal of Ali bin Hussain, Secretary to the Manama Municipality’
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The file contains an exchange of confidential correspondence, following Arab press reports of a new friendship treaty between the Sheikhs of Bahrain and the British Government. The correspondence is mainly between Meredith Worth (Officiating Political Agent, Bahrain), Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Go...
File 1/22 Handing Over and Taking Over by the Head Clerks on Transfer: Correspondence re
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The file contains records of valuables kept on deposit [some as a result of legal cases], and firearms, ammunition, documents, and other items stored securely at the Political Agency, Bahrain. The papers include statements, lists, notes, receipts, and a small amount of correspondence, and cons...
‘File 13/5 II Registration of: - Deaths, Births and Marriages’
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The file contains numerous quarterly death returns for British and British Indian subjects who died in Bahrain. These were compiled by the Political Agent, Bahrain and sent to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. There are several birth and death certificates, marriage notices a...
‘16/8 Miscellaneous:- Surveyor required for Khassab to take temperature readings under British Residency Bushire’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning a request from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, made to the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) via the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Reginald George Evelin William Alban), for a surveyor, who is required to take temperatur...
