Contextual essays written as part of the British Library Qatar Foundations Partnership Programme, digitising materials from the India Office Records.

• Diplomacy, Disease and Death: the Story of Georgian Slaves in the Gulf
• German Interests in the Gulf’s Pearling Industry
• Mombasa: Britain’s shortest-lived Protectorate?
• Britain’s ineffectual Efforts to suppress the Slave Trade
• Telegraphs and Typewriters: the Impact of Technology on Bookkeeping at Bushire
• Crime or Punishment: the Cruel Death of a Sailor at Bushire in 1820
• Between Freedom and Slavery: the Employment of runaway Slaves in the Indian Navy
• The Indigo Trade in the Gulf in the Nineteenth Century
• A Demonstration of British Firepower on the Trucial Coast, 1949
• Negotiating the Origins of the Gulf’s Aviation Industry
• George Barnes Brucks and the First English Survey of the Gulf
• British Government resist modernisation of the Pearling Industry