Distinctive Features: Shows the location of tribes that dwelled in the Trucial States area with names reported. Names of tribes under authority of the Muscat state are double underlined in red.
This volume mainly contains letters on the implementation of the General Treaty of 1820 including a system of watch and cruise and what actions to take in case of suspected piracy. It also includes a letter from H R Durham, Assistant Political Agent, Qishm Island, to James Dow, Assistant Resident...
The volume contains correspondence relating to twenty-six manumission cases. Although the volume is described in its title as being cases from the Political Agency in Muscat, cases 25 and 26 involve manumission cases heard by the Residency Agent at Sharjah. The cases are straightforward in natu...
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding British policy in Kuwait. The correspondence discusses the demarcation of the Kuwait-Iraq border, British obligations to Kuwait and the construction of a port at Um Qasr by the British military authorities. The correspondenc...
Distinctive Features: Hand drawn rough sketch map of the Arabian Peninsula enclosed with letter no. C-436 dated 27th December 1938, sent to Sir Trenchard Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. Produced to illustrate the European powers involvement and control over the region ...
Distinctive Features: Shows administrative division with provinces labelled. Boundaries coloured for reference with an explanatory note at the upper right-hand corner of sheet
This file contains a letter from Lt-Col Hugh Vincent Biscoe (the Political Resident in Bushire) to the Foreign Secretary of the Government on India in New Delhi. The letter discusses the retention of the services of Mr. C. de Grenier as the Director of Customs in Bahrain but also contains a br...
The majority of the documents contained in this file date from 1946 and 1947. The information contained in them relates to the state of Bahrain's economy and infrastructure post-World War Two. The documents contain discussions between the Agency in Bahrain and Charles Belgrave (the adviser to th...
Correspondence discussing the situation in Khasab and relations between Shaikh Hassan and the Sultan of Muscat. Includes some letters in Arabic and a family tree (folio 21) of the ruling shaikhs of Dibba and Sharjah. Also includes a letter from Saiyid Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr], Presiden...