| Description | Typed transcript of pages 1 to 100 of Belgrave's diary, covering the period from 4 May to 31 December 1933. Topics covered include the Muharram festivities (4 -5 May), intrigue between the Anglo Persian and Bahrain oil companies (10 May), concern over bad coins (12 May), discovery that Bahrain was only 140,000 square acres and not 218,000 as previously thought (13 May), film show by Mrs Loch (27 May), photography (2, 9 June, 8 December), selling of 'Red Biddy' liquor made from methylated spirits (5 June), notes on Haji Williamson (16 June), arrival of three 'wapiti' biplanes (27 June), public beatings of prisoners (10 August), British obstruction of American oil interests (11 August), Belgrave's criticism of English/American attitudes towards Arabs (13 August), new postal stamps marked with Bahrain surcharge (19 August), burglary at the American Mission (30 August), Belgrave's unease at the intrigue over oil (23, 28-31 August), response to news of death of King Faisal of Iraq (8 September), Belgrave's opinion that 'these days the British Government is a lamb not a lion, in the Gulf' (9, 30 September), departure of Major Holmes in consequence of oil controversy (21 September), visit from Air Vice Marshall Burnett (22-4 September, see also 9 May), arrival of nine destroyers from the British Navy's Mediterranean Fleet with a visit from the Senior Naval Officer (7-12 October), displeasure at a scandalously misleading article on Bahrain published in 'The Sphere' 30 September issue (13 October), wedding of Mr Ham and Miss Savidge (5 November), visit from Admiral Dunbar-Nasmith, plus another film show by Mrs Loch (6 November, 25 December), and a magic lantern show of slides of Palestine (26 December) |