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IOR/R/15/5/59-71

Record Id:

038-000242075

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

036-000241998

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000061.0x000118

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

IOR/R/15/5/59-71

Title:

File 22: Kuwait's relations with other Powers

Scope & Content:

The Kuwait subject files (22: Kuwait's relations with other powers) cover a wide range of topics relating to Kuwait's relations with other powers and include correspondence regarding:

Kuwait's relations with Bahrain;
a distinctive design for Kuwait's flag;
the status of Kuwait and negotiations to determine its border;
articles written by pan-Islamic movements;
the Berlin to Baghdad Railway and terminus on the Gulf;
the 1917 mission of Harry St John Bridger Philby to Ibn Sa'ud;
the Kuwait conference of 1923-24 to settle the boundaries between Kuwait, Iraq, Transjordania, Najd and Hijaz.

The files also contain a number of maps and photographs.

Collection Area:

India Office Records and Private Papers

Project / Collection:

India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000241998
037-000241999
038-000242075

Is part of:

IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/5 : Political Agency, Kuwait
IOR/R/15/5/1-108 : Kuwait Agency, First Series subject files

IOR/R/15/5/59-71 : File 22: Kuwait's relations with other Powers

Contains:

IOR/R/15/5/59 : File XXII/1 Koweit relations with British Government
IOR/R/15/5/60 : File XXII 4 Koweit relations with Bahrain.
IOR/R/15/5/61 : File XXII/5 Distinctive Flag for Kuwait
IOR/R/15/5/62 : XX/7 Vernacular Newspapers & periodicals, Extracts from & Pan-Islamism.
IOR/R/15/5/63 : XXII/8 Baghdad Railway
IOR/R/15/5/64 : XXII/9 Sheikh's relations with Germany
IOR/R/15/5/65 : XXII/10 Status of Kuwait & Negotiations with Turkey.
IOR/R/15/5/66 : 22/16 Mr Philby's Mission to Najd - 1918.
IOR/R/15/5/67 : XXII/17 Boundary between Koweit & Katif Territory
IOR/R/15/5/68 : XXII/19 Bubyan and Warba Islands.
IOR/R/15/5/69 : 22/23 I Kuwait Conference 1923
IOR/R/15/5/70 : File 22/23 II Kuwait Conference 1924
IOR/R/15/5/71 : File 22/23 III Kuwait Conference

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Hierarchy:

032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0005]/036-000241998[0001]/037-000241999[0018]/038-000242075

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R

Record Type (Level):

SubSubSeries

Extent:

13 files (1630 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Arabic
English
French

Scripts:

Arabic
Latin

Start Date:

1904

End Date:

1925

Date Range:

1904-1925

Era:

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Arrangement:

The files concerning Kuwait's relations with other powers are arranged by file and part number, by which, for example, the reference 22/23 II is composed of the subject reference 22 (Kuwait's relations with other powers), the file number 23 and the part number II. The file number references of the surviving files (1, 4-5, 7-10, 16-19, 23) and the part numbers show the likely gaps in the series.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Public Record(s)