‘File B/16 IMPERIAL AIRWAYS REST HOUSE AT SHARJAH’
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The file contains correspondence relating to three reported incidents at Sharjah Aerodrome, involving the servants, staff and property of Imperial Airways and its successor British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). The three cases are: the investigation and conviction of refuelling clerk Muham...
File D/3 Correspondence with Aden regarding Miscellaneous Matters
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This file concerns an Aden-born twenty-five year old woman, Mariam bint Ahmed, and requests – made both by her brothers in Aden and by her Bahraini husband's son in Bahrain – for her to be repatriated to Aden. Mariam bint Ahmed's divorce, her former husband's death, and her unwillingness to retu...
`Political Diary of the Residency in the Persian Gulf – Native Departments’
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The volume is a political diary recording ‘native’ correspondence sent and received by the Residency, visits made by the Resident, visitors received at the Residency, and other occurrences of note. All of the correspondence detailed in the volume was sent to or received from Arab and Persian inh...
B Series. POLITICAL 8/1 (A Series 14/221) Correspondence Regarding the Shaikh of Dibba
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This file contains correspondence relating to the Shaikh of Dibba. The main correspondents are the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Major Claude Edward Bremner, Political Agent, Muscat; Khan Sahib Sayid Abdur Razzak, Residency Agent, Sharjah; Shaikh Rashid bin Ahmad, Chie...
Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Nejd [Najd] Affairs, 1804-1904
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The volume is Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I Historical and Political Materials, Précis of Nejd Affairs, 1804-1904 (Simla: G C Press, 1904). The volume contains an historical overview of Nejd [Najd], 1804-94, with particular reference to the history of the Wahabis [Wahhabis].
‘File 28/1 V Visits to Bahrain of military officials (Brigadier Hughes & Party)’
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The file contains correspondence relating to visits by senior military officials to Bahrain, principally arrangements for the visit of Brigadier F E C Hughes (ff 6-50), referred to in the file as both Commander-Designate of Forces, and head of Persian Gulf Defence Mission, in late June/early Jul...
‘File 28/77 War – Reserve of spare parts for oil companies to be kept at Bahrain’
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The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to proposals, initially raised by the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) to retain in Bahrain a stock of spare parts used by the region’s oil industries (in particular the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC)), should a major war lead to d...
File 6/43 Baladiya Medical appointments - and other correspondence regarding Bahrain Government Hospital and Dispensary
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The file contains correspondence relating mostly to the purchase and shipment of supplies and equipment and the employment of staff for the Bahrain Government Hospital. The correspondence is mostly between the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), Political Agent, Ba...
‘File 12/4 I.E.T.S [Indo-European Telegraph Ship] “Patrick Stewart” ran ashore near “Fasht Adbal [Fasht ad Dībal]’
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The file comprises correspondence and telegrams relating to the running aground on 14 March 1927 of the Indo-European Telegraph Ship Patrick Stewart, on sandbanks to the east of the Bahrain islands, referred to as Fasht Adbal or Fasht ad dbal [Fasht ad Dībal]. The file includes: copies of teleg...
‘File 16/39 Miscellaneous. Visit to Bahrain of Rev. J. V. Westlake, Chaplain of the Church of England. & other chaplains. Appointment of a Church of England Minister, Bahrain’
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the visits to Bahrain of representatives of: the Church of England at Basra (Reverend J V Westlake; Reverend F W Bowyer); the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem (Bishop George Francis Graham Brown); the Church of Scotland (Reverend James Hume); and the Lati...
