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1. IOR/R/15/2/645-650

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/645-650
Title:
File 27 Etiquette
Scope & Content:
The Etiquette files of the Political Agency, Bahrain, contain files from the 1930s and 1940s concerning: gun salutes for British officials and members of the various Arab ruling families in the Gulf; social etiquette (such as terms of address, relative seniority of British officials and seating ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1949
Extent:
6 files (564 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/646

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/646
Title:
27/2 I Etiquette
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the etiquette of various social occasions involving British officials in the Gulf, members of Gulf ruling families and visiting dignitaries. There are numerous seating plans for dinner parties as well as Christmas greetings and lists of expenditures ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1933-29 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 file (206 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/647

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/647
Title:
File 27/2 II Etiquette
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to etiquette: letter to William Rupert Hay, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, commenting on a list of people to be invited to an 'Arab Dinner', following a discussion with Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain. extract from a letter by Hug...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1937-25 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/649

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/649
Title:
File 27/4 DESIGNATION, STATUS, SALUTES OF POLITICAL OFFICERS IN THE PERSIAN GULF.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the designation, status and salutes of British officials in the Gulf in the context of the transfer of responsibility from the India Office to the Foreign Office. Correspondents include Major Maurice O'Connor Tandy, Political Agent, Kuwait; Major Hugh Dunstan Rance, Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1947-21 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/650

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/650
Title:
FLYING OF FLAGS BY COMPANIES AND PRIVATE PERSONS IN BAHRAIN.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the request from African and Eastern (Near East) Limited to Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent, Bahrain, to fly the shipping company's house flag over their office when there is a ship in port. The Political Agent inquired to the Political Resident Persian Gulf, who ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1948-1 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/645

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/645
Title:
'27/1 SALUTES AND EXCHANGES OF CALLS BETWEEN H.M.'s SERVICES AND ARAB RULERS.'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in this file discusses the etiquette of gun salutes and exchange of calls in the Gulf. Topics include: the raising of the number of gun salutes for the Ruler of Kuwait and the Ruler of Bahrain from seven guns to eleven guns; a letter in Arabic (with English translation) from Shaik...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Feb 1931-8 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (274 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/648

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/648
Title:
27/3 FLYING OF FLAGS ON ISLANDS OFF THE TRUCIAL COAST.
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the flying of flags on Tamb island [Greater Tunb] and on Sirr Abu Nu'air [Şīr Bū Nu‘ayr]. In 1933 Trenchard Craven Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, encouraged the shaikhs of the Trucial Coast to fly their flags on these islands to preve...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1933-1 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/645, f 240

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/645, f 240
Title:
'Photo taken on board HMS Norfolk'
Scope & Content:
Photograph of a group portrait taken on board HMS Norfolk, 11 January 1948, on a visit to Bahrain by Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station, Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Francis Eric Palliser, receiving the call of His Highness Shaikh Sir Salman bin Hamad al Khalifah [Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 photograph