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The Second World War Comes to Bahrain
their targets. A Foreign Office telegram of November 1940 put the matter quite succinctly: ‘Bahrain... 81055/vdc_100023055424.0x00000c Telegram ...
An Earl, a Collection and a Gun: the Curious Provenance of a British Library Manuscript
http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_341465/%28after%29-Atkinson%2C-James/page-1 An Army Officer, Traveller and Scholar FitzClarence served ...
The Dubai Incident, 1910: A Gun Battle that Damaged British relations with the Trucial Coast
Muscat through the Persian Gulf to the northwest frontier of India. There they were being used by Afghan... Just before dawn on 24 December, ...
The 1930s: the Gulf as ‘Highway between East and West’
for the Government of India by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and other senior British officials.... to India, which was ...
A Demonstration of British Firepower on the Trucial Coast, 1949
airbase. Over refreshments, the Air Staff Liaison Officer (ASLO) informed the Shaikhs that these aircraft,... Trucial Shaikhdoms, June 1949, ...
British Government Resist Modernisation of the Pearling Industry
in the East India Company’s spirit of commercial enterprise and economic colonisation. By the beginning... the Gulf’s pearling industry, ...
The Coming of the Wireless Telegraph to Bahrain
representations to the Political Agent to establish better communications with India so that Bahrain could have... and by facilitating better ...
A Strategic Position: British Seizures of the Island of Kharg
according to James Horsburgh’s The India Directory, better quality than that available at Bushire. In more... in Persian, 3 December 1856. ...
The Founders of Bahraini Sawt Music: Mohamed Bin Fares and Dhahi Bin Walid
and India. Since the early days of ṣawt music in the first quarter of the twentieth century, there has been... influences encompass musical ...