Arabian Gulf Digital Archive

The AGDA was created in 2019 as a result of the combination of the archives of the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.^[1][2] The related agreement was signed by the parties in 2017.^[3] It is part of the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates^[4][5] and contains videos, photographs and documents in Arabic and English.^[1] The latter also includes letters, memos, transcripts, and official correspondence^[6] some of which are those of the oil companies which involved in the oil exploration activities in the region.^[7] The materials are constructed through the optical character recognition and can be accessed via Internet and mobile devices.^[1]

The archive contains nearly more than a quarter of a million documents and photographs covering the events related to the region from the 1820s to the 2000s.^[2][8] Some of them are the papers produced by the British Foreign Office.^[2]

• Official website