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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Political Office, Dubai
Catalogue reference: FCO 164
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FCO 164
This series contains files concerning commercial agreements and some records inherited from other Gulf Region political agencies. The records cover a wide range of subjects relating to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its predecessor sheikdoms,...
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FCO 164
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Political Office, Dubai
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Date (When the record was created)
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1820-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files concerning commercial agreements and some records inherited from other Gulf Region political agencies. The records cover a wide range of subjects relating to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its predecessor sheikdoms, including constitution and legislation; treaties; land and boundary claims; disputes and agreements; oil concessions; the development of the UAE; the tribes of the Persian Gulf. Includes maps and Arabic documents.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Political Agency, Dubai, 1968-1971
- Foreign Office, Political Agency, Dubai, 1948-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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97 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2017 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Following the First World War, due to the decline of the cultured pearl trade and the depression of the 1920s, the British Government (assisted by the seven emirates sheikhs) set up a development office in the Gulf to aid the development emirates. In 1952 they formed the Trucial States Council. When the British-Trucial Sheikhdoms treaty expired on 1 December 1971, they became fully independent.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16318215/
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