‘File 16/28A Examinations of the Gulf students in Foreign countries & Scholarships’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, application forms and other papers relating to scholarships and bursaries offered to students from the Persian Gulf by the British Council for the year 1950/51. The principal correspondents are: the Adviser to the Bahrain Government (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave); various represent...
File 17/5 III Furniture and Stores for the Bahrain Political Agency
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Correspondence between staff of the Political Agency, Bahrain, and numerous merchants regarding orders of furniture, stationery and other equipment for the Agency. The file also contains correspondence with the British Forces in Iraq and the Government of Bahrain regarding the supply of fire ext...
File 28/5 IV Visits of Tankers and Steamers etc. to Sitrah terminus
Scope & Content:
The file mainly contains Royalty Delivery Tickets showing the amount of oil shipped from January to May 1939, transmitted by the Political Agent at Bahrain to the Secretary of State for India and the Political Resident in the Gulf.
File 28/5 X Monthly statements of oil deliveries: royalty delivery tickets
Scope & Content:
The file mainly contains Royalty Delivery Tickets showing the amount of oil delivered to refinery from July 1942 to January 1943, transmitted by Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) representatives to the Political Agent at Bahrain.
File 36/60 Minutes of the Commercial Advisory Committee Meetings
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This file contains copies of the minutes of Bahrain's Commercial Advisory Committee. The Committee was a body composed of its president, Political Agent Major Tom Hickinbotham, a number of prominent local merchants based in Bahrain and G W R Smith, Director of Customs. The Committee is occasiona...
‘I/1 First Appointment of a Pol: Agent to Koweit, (Capt S. G. Knox).’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence sent and letter received by the Political Agent at Kuwait (Captain Stuart George Knox): a letter from Knox describing his arrival in Kuwait, the Ruler of Kuwait’s [Shaikh Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] response to his arrival, accommodation and food offered by the Shaikh, a...
This file contains correspondence concerning the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and his conflict with the Al Rashid rulers of the Emirate of Jabal Shammar (or Emirate of Ha'il) as well as his relations with the Ottoman Empi...
File 2/10 Iraq law governing the rights and duties of cultivators
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This file contains two documents forwarded to the Political Agent in Kuwait regarding the passage of the Iraqi 'Law Governing the Rights and Duties o Cultivators' passed in Iraq in 1933. The documents are a covering letter from the British Embassy in Baghdad that introduces a more extensive comm...
File 2/15 Iraq coup d'etat and political situation in Iraq
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This file contains documents and correspondence relating to the takeover of Iraq by British forces following the coup d'état in Iraq during 1941. The papers discuss the possibility of an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and the domestic political situation in Iraq during and immediately after both the c...
‘File 7/3 Representations by Foreign Powers on behalf of their Subjects’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with representations made to the Kuwait Political Agency by foreign powers, requesting that the British investigate complaints made by their subjects against the ruling authorities of Kuwait; it should be noted that the nationality of complainants is sometimes disputed. The...
