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Belgrave did not see the light of day as he died before completing his work. The

documents collected by Robert Belgrave and his work, which he seems to have only

just started, are currently located at the archives of the University of Exeter. The

documents available there give an overview of Belgrave’s life and work, particularly

in Bahrain. In a journal article in Bahrain’s Al-Watheekah in 1985, Robert Belgrave

announced his intention to publish a biography of Belgrave, which he was working

on at the time.
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All the works presented thus far offer only a short overview of the political

crisis from the mid-twentieth century. Therefore, this thesis aims to draw on a wide

range of available Arabic and English sources to better understand and fill in the

details of the developments that unfolded in Bahrain against the backdrop of the

greater Cold War scenario.

95 R. Belgrave, ‘Charles Dalrymple Belgrave: Mustashar Qadeem fi Al-Bahrain’ [Charles Dalrymple
Belgrave: An Old Adviser in Bahrain], Al-Watheekah, 6.1, (1985), 39-53 (39-40).

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