‘File 12/14 Shipping. Miscellaneous accidents between dhows and steamers’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence concerning three cases involving dhows, as follows: correspondence relating to a collision between a Bahrain-registered dhow and an Anglo-Iranian Oil Company tug at Khorramshahr in November 1943. Much of the follow-up correspondence concerns the seizure by the I...
‘File 16/60 Correspondence regarding Local Clubs in Bahrain Is.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence from clubs, or concerning clubs in Bahrain: letters from representatives of the Bahrain Cricket Club, concerning requests to stage theatrical plays to support the club’s fundraising activities, and notification of the construction of a new club house. Papers include synopses for t...
File 17/14 I Toshakhana Articles for Bushire Correspondence regarding.
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the Bushire Residency [Persian Gulf Political Residency] Toshakhana — a store of gifts kept with the Bahrain Political Agency, so that they would be available for presentation to the Trucial Coast Shaikhs when needed. Regular stock accounts are submitted to Bushire to ...
This file concerns the Bahrain Political Agency's purchase of a Gestetner duplicating machine, plus accessories. The file also contains correspondence regarding the shipping of stationery from the Government of India's central stationery office in Calcutta to the Political Agency at Bahrain. Th...
‘File 18/14 II Air Conditioning of Bahrain Agency.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to air conditioning for the Political Agency, Bahrain, and the Assistant Political Agent’s house. It includes correspondence regarding the purchase and installation of an air conditioning unit at the Political Agency, repairs to the air c...
Papers concerning relations between Kuwait and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia), and a trading blockade imposed on Kuwait by the King of Hejaz and Nejd (from September 1932, the King of the Arab Sa’udite Kingdom [Saudi Arabia]) ‘Abdul ‘Aziz bin ‘Abdur Rahman al-Faisal [‘Abd al-...
This file relates to several cases of robbery, which have reportedly been committed by Persian subjects (referred to in the file as pirates) in the Shatt-al-Arab, against Kuwaiti sailing boats, including those belonging to the Kuwait Water Supply Company. The file includes copies of correspond...
The file contains correspondence between officials at the Political Agency in Kuwait, the Persian Gulf Residency in Bahrain, and the Establishment and Organisation Department of the Foreign Office in London, about the pay, allowances and leave entitlements of the two local Arab clerks employed at...
File XXV/11 Arabian Affairs. Relations of British Government with Bin Saud
Scope & Content:
This file contains a copy of a memorandum entitled 'Relations with Ibn Sa'ud' that was written by Arnold Wilson, Chief Political Officer in Charge of the Iraq Section of the Foreign Office's Arab Bureau (folios 3-7). The memorandum contains a detailed description of the development of relations ...
The file includes correspondence in the form of telegrams and letters related to the landing ground at Shinas. The correspondence discusses the outstanding payment of the rent of the petrol store at Shinas, and the delivery of the Imperial Airways petrol and oil stored at Shinas to Khimji Ramdas...
