'File 4/14 Bahrain State Broadcasting Station'

Content

The file contains three items of correspondence (reference numbers D.O. Nos. 1077-9A; 668-S; C/346) between Charles Dalrymple Belgrave (Adviser to the Bahrain Government), Cornelius James Pelly ( Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain) and Major A.L.A. Dredge (Secretary to the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bahrain).

The file also contains an extract from a report entitled Information work in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (reference number PME.163/163/934), containing Stevenson's recommendations for a reorganisation of the post of Information Officer in Bahrain and related public library and information services.

Pelly and Dredge discuss the existing public Reading Room in Manama, a proposed Reading Room in Muharraq and the proposed supply of English books to the Hostel Library used by students, run by the Education Department of the Bahrain Government. Also discussed are Bahrain Government plans to revive a broadcasting service and publish an official gazette, with news items in Arabic and English contributed by the Information Officer in Bahrain and other British sources in Baghdad and London.

Extent and format

1 file (8 folios)

Arrangement

File papers are arranged chronologically. At the end of the file is half a page of file notes consisting solely of a list of file contents, which comprise three documents. The list also records the reference numbers ‘1’, ‘2’ and ‘3’ which have been written on the three documents in blue or red crayon and encircled.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: numbered 1 to 10 in pencil in the top right hand corner and encircled. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the file cover (f.1) and ends on the inside cover at the back of the file (f.10).

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/2/935

Former external reference(s)

Information Series: 4/14

History of this record

Date(s)

27 Feb 1948-5 Apr 1948 (CE, Gregorian)

Related material

Subjects

National BroadcastingPropagandaPublic informationIntelligence operations

People & organisations

Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign AffairsPublic Information OfficerAdviser to the Government of BahrainBahrain Political Agency

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