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included Mohammed Al-Jassim and Sawsan Al-Shaer’s Bahrain… The Story of

Political Struggle 1904-1956 and Ahmed Hamidan’s The National Union Committee in

Bahrain. These publications have also limited themselves to selected sources.
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In his PhD dissertation entitled Social and Political Change in Bahrain since

the First World War awarded in 1973 by Durham University, Mohammed Ghanim Al-

Rumaihi from Kuwait touched on the rise and development of the Movement in

Bahrain as part of tracing the socio-political changes that swept Bahrain following

the First World War. A basic sketch of the conflict was covered; Al-Rumaihi relied

mainly on the memoirs of Belgrave and Al-Bakir to explain the events of the 1950s

in Bahrain. Additionally he utilised the Bahraini Government’s annual reports, the

nationalist movement’s circulars, nationalist press, and some international

newspapers. His usage of the limited sources is understandable since TNA’s archive

on Bahrain and the situation in the 1950s was not made public in the 1970s.
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91 M. Abdulla (ed.), Muthakrat Belgrave: Mustashar Hakumat Al-Bahrain Sabiqan [The Memoirs of
Belgrave: Former Adviser to the Government of Bahrain] (Beirut: 1991); M. Al-Khalifa (ed.), Charles
Belgrave Al-Sira wa Al-Muthakarat 1926-1957 [Charles Belgrave Biography and Memoirs 1926-1957]
(Beirut: 2000); M. Al-Jassim and S.A. Al-Shaer, Al-Bahrain Qisat Al-Sira’a Al-Siyasi 1904-1956
[Bahrain… The Story of Political Struggle 1904-1956] (2000); and A. Hamidan, Hayet Al-Itihad Al-
Watani fi Al-Bahrain [The National Union Committee in Bahrain] (Beirut: 2004). There are other
publications that dealt with certain phases of Belgrave’s life that excluded the time period of this
thesis. For example, Mahdi Al-Tajir’s work entitled, Bahrain 1920-1945: Britain, the Shaikh and the
Administration (1987) examined the introduction of modern government systems in Bahrain that
aided in the process of transforming the islands’ from a sheikhdom to a modern state. The
publication also highlights how the steps of modernisation affected Bahrainis, with a particular focus
on the development and relations of the Arab Shi’ite community with the Government of Bahrain.
Furthermore, another attempt in documenting a different phase of Belgrave’s life is found in Charles
Belgrave under the Shades of Siwa Oasis (2012), by Hamad E. Abdulla. The publication researched the
former Adviser’s experience in his first administrative post in Egypt from 1920 to 1922. See M. Al-
Tajir, Bahrain 1920-1945: Britain, the Shaikh and the Administration (New York: 1987); and H.
Abdulla, Charles Belgrave fi Thilal Wahat Siwa [Charles Belgrave in the Shades of Siwa Oasis]
(Manama: 2012).
92 M.G. Al-Rumaihi, ‘Social and Political Change in Bahrain Since the First World War’ (Durham
University: 1973).

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