File 8/98 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: ARMS & AMMUNITION FOR SULTAN OF MUSCAT
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This file concerns the supply of arms and ammunition by the British Government to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd], following the conclusion of a Civil Air Agreement between the two parties. The correspondence mainly concerns shipping arrangements for arms and ammuni...
File 9/C-6 Shipping, Naval and Marine: Muscat lighthouse and leading lights
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the maintenance of the lighthouse and leading lights at Muscat. The papers deal with orders for supplies and parts, administration of costs, and reports of lights not burning. The correspondence comes from: the Political Agency, Muscat; the Port Direct...
Imprint: S.D.O. Topo. Dy. No. 14, Exd. C.J.A., April 1911. Distinctive Features: Map produced to illustrate the proposed railway and irrigation scheme in Mesopotamia recommended by Sir William Willcocks. Includes a key and an explanatory note on railways with distances between Baghdad and Ba...
‘Map to show the Limits of Koweit and Adjacent Country’
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Imprint: Harrison & Sons Lith. St. Martins Lane, W.C. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Map issued as an Annex no. 5 to Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 29 July 1913 with inner and outer limits of Kuwait authority shown by red and green lines respectively. Signatures of Sir Ed...
14/138 Arab Coast: Hostilities Between the Chiefs of Abu Dhabi and Um al Kowein over the affairs of the Bani Katb tribe. April 1904 to May 1916
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Correspondence discussing the role of Sheikh Zaid bin Khalifah, Sheikh of Abu Dhabi on the Trucial Coast and the battles and disputes between the Trucial Shaikhs. Also discussed is the agreement, arranged by the Political Resident Persian Gulf which secured the release of the Shaikh of Umm al-Qa...
File 35/84 I A. 5. Muscat Treaty of 1891; lease of Bandar Jissah by the Sultan of Muscat to the French for a coaling station
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Correspondence about the lease of Bandar Jissah by the Sultan of Muscat to the French for a coaling station. Includes, in English and Arabic, the 'lawful and honourable Bond' of 28th March 1891 whereby Sayyid Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, pledged never to cede, sell or mortgage an...
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Various routes shown in colour with a key of reference provided below map. Copied from a ‘Sketch map to illustrate the paper on “Some Excursions in Oman” by Major General Sir Percy Cox, G.C.M.G.’ published in the Geographical Journal in Septemb...
File XXVII/1 Al Khalifa family. Recognition of Shaikh Hamad as successor to Sh `Isa. CSI conferred on Shaikh `Isa. CIE conferred on Sh `Abdullah.
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The majority of the file contains correspondence exchanged by the Political Agent at Bahrain between 1914 and 1917 with the Political Resident in the Gulf, the Secretary to the Most Eminent Order of the British Empire, and the Ruler of Bahrain, Sheikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa [‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Kha...
File 31/8 File No:- 1-B/7(a) Major Head: Administration. Sub: Head:- General. Subject:- Land Tenure in Bahrain. Sub file. MUNICIPAL MEAT MARKET & SLAUGHTER HOUSE.
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The file contains correspondence about land tenure in Manamah, specifically over the municipal meat market and slaughterhouse. The majority of the correspondence is between the Captain Everard Huddleston Gastrell, Political Agent, Bahrain, and the President, Manama municipality, as well as Shaik...
The file deals with the dissemination in Bahrain of publicity and propaganda material in support of the British and allied cause at the start of the Second World War (1939-45). Most of the information originated with the Ministry of Information in London. The file also contains information on th...
