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with general information. The diary focused primarily on events following the

Party’s downfall and presented little information of the events under review here.

Other personal archives of British personalities who impacted the

nationalists, were involved in and/or adopted the campaign to free its exiled

members such as Barbara Ann Castle, Nevill Barbour, VA Wight-Boycott, Reginald

Paget, and Donald Chesworth’s, were observed. These did not contain any new

information of value. Additionally, Hansard’s record of debates at the House of

Lords (HL) and House of Commons (HC) were searched. The debates provided an

insight on how some British politicians viewed the conflict in Bahrain. However

most of the debates occurred during the final months of the Movement and

following the exile of three of the Party’s members. Documented oral projects on

the Suez War or with British diplomats that included interviews with personalities

who offered insight on the Bahraini conflict, such as Churchill College Cambridge’s

The British Diplomatic Oral History Programme and King’s College London’s Suez

Oral History Project, 1956, were also reviewed.

Newspapers from the era under study were examined. First, the archive of

nationalist press from the 1950s which consisted of articles by members and

supporters of the Bahraini Movement that included the magazine known as Sawut

Al-Bahrain (The Voice of Bahrain) and biweekly newspapers such as Al-Qafilah (The

Caravan), Al-Watan (The Nation), and Al-Mizan (The Scale). The archives of those

publications are available at Isa Cultural Centre (ICC) in Bahrain. Second, archives

of international press, including The Manchester Guardian/The Guardian, The Times,

The Observer, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, The Spectator, Reynold’s News, the New

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