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‘File 28/3 War. Security Intelligence Section. Movements and Activities of Enemy Agents.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to intelligence assessments made of a host of individuals whose background, actions, or suspected pro-Axis Power sympathies prompt British officials to pursue further enquiries into them. Principal correspondents in the file include members of the intel...
‘File 28/5 I Export licences for shipments of oil from Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to oil exports made by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), and to a lesser extent the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), and the need for regulation of oil exports during wartime. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent...
‘File 28/57-III Volunteers for National Service: Conscription of Labour, etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the introduction and application of Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942, issued under the Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council (1939). The Regulation stipulated that British subjects employed at the Bahrain Petroleu...
‘File 29/3i Food Supplies – Food Control and Rationing & GENERAL’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about food rationing and price controls in Bahrain during the Second World War (1939-1945). The supply and distribution of staple foods such as rice, wheat, barley, flour, sugar, tea and coffee to the population of Bahrain are discussed and to a lesser extent, other...
File 29/31 Matches from India for Bahrain, Trucial Coast & Qatar
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about the supply of matches from India to Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, for local consumption, under Government of India export licensing controls and import quotas imposed during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), when matches and oth...
File 38/16 Effects of Bahrain-Qatar dispute on P. C. L.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to how the dispute between Bahrain and Qatar over Zubarah has affected the work of Petroleum Concessions Limited. The principle correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain; Sir Charles Belgrave, Advisor to the Government of Bahrain; Shaikh Sulman ...
File 2/14 Outbreaks of smallpox, cholera and other diseases on the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Agent at Bahrain; K S Husain bin Hamad, in charge of the Agency at Sharjah; the Political Agent in the Trucial Coast; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo; regarding outbreaks of smallpox and ot...
File 6/13 Enquiry into the affairs of the State Power House
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence relating to the operations and running costs of the Government of Bahrain Electrical Department. The correspondence is between the Political Agent, Bahrain (Reginald George Evelyn William Alban), Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, British Consulate in Bas...
File 6/19 Proposed construction of a sea road between Manama and Muharraq Islands
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the planning and construction of a sea road between Manama and Muharraq Island, Bahrain. The correspondence is between the following: the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (usually Charles Dalrymple Belgrave); the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Poli...
File 6/41 Provident Fund of the three British Officers under the Bahrain Government
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the provident funds of the three British employees of the Bahrain Government: Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Claud Cranbrook Lewis de Grenier, and Captain L S Parke. The correspondence is between Belgrave, de Grenier, the Political Agent, Bahrain, the Pol...
