2024
“In Search of Hans Baluschek” Slow Travel Berlin, January 2024
2023
“The Firelands: the immense industrial Legacy of August Borsig” Slow Travel Berlin, August 2023
2022
“The Brassey Museum, London”, In the Jungle of Cities, 9 December 2022
“The Beckton Alps”, In the Jungle of Cities, 31 August 2022
2021
“The pearling industry on the Arab coast of the Gulf” Flee Project 3, 2021
2020
“Goodbye Schönefeld”, In the Jungle of Cities, 15 December 2020
“The Kugelhaus, Dresden”, In the Jungle of Cities, 9 April 2020
2019
“British Humanitarian Efforts as Propaganda in Iran during the Second World War”, Qatar Digital Library, 4 November 2019
“Manumission Statements: Insights into the Lives of the Gulf’s enslaved Population”, Qatar Digital Library, 2 October 2019
“Finding Aid: The Persia Collection in the Political (External) Department Records”, Qatar Digital Library, 26 September 2019
2018
“The British Empire in the Gulf during the Second World War”, Qatar Digital Library, 28 August 2018
“An Eyewitness Account of Life in the Early 19th-Century Habsburg Empire”, British Library European Studies Blog, 14 May 2018
2017
“Isfahan: The City of Polish Children”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 12 October 2017
“Twilight of Pearling Industry sees ‘slave’ Divers seek Freedoms”, Qatar Digital Library, 11 October 2017
“Passports and Politics: Britain and Persia’s Disagreements over Bahrain”, Qatar Digital Library, 9 August 2017
“The Paintings of Gustav Wunderwald” Public Domain Review, June 2017.
“Crime or Punishment? The cruel Death of a Sailor at Bushire in 1820”, Qatar Digital Library, 21 June 2017
“Diplomacy, Disease and Death: A Story of Georgian Slaves in the Gulf” Qatar Digital Library, 2 June 2017
“The Hodeidah Incident: Britain’s ‘indiscriminate’ military action in Yemen”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 11 April 2017
2016
“The British Legion’s Fundraising in the Age of Empire”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 11 November 2016
“Persian carpets for European consumers”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 29 September 2016
”‘One heap of stones as good as another’ – Bahrain’s disappearing burial mounds”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 25 August 2016
“‘Pre-packed airports’ for the Persian Gulf?”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 7 July 2016
“Mud Hovels, Mean Houses and Natural Philosophy”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 12 January 2016
“Oil Maps of the Middle East” The British Library, 2016 [currently unavailable]
2015
“The lonely death of a British Vice-Consul in Persia”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 3 November 2015
“A Demonstration of British Firepower on the Trucial Coast, 1949”, Qatar Digital Library, 27 August 2015
“Mombasa: Britain’s shortest-lived Protectorate?” Qatar Digital Library, 14 August 2015
“Telegraphs and Typewriters: The Impact of Technology on Bookkeeping at Bushire”, Qatar Digital Library, 11 August 2015
“Between Freedom and Slavery: The Employment of runaway Slaves in the Indian Navy”, Qatar Digital Library, 11 August 2015
“German Interests in the Gulf’s Pearling Industry” Qatar Digital Library, 10 August 2015
“George Barnes Brooks and the first English Survey of the Gulf”, Qatar Digital Library, 4 August 2015
“Births, Marriages, Deaths: Bahrain‘s ‘Order in Council’ in Action”, Qatar Digital Library, 4 August 2015
“The Chinese Labour Corps in Basra”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 16 July 2015
“‘A smack at the Chikor’”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 14 April 2015
“Beards, Barley and Bear-baiting: Revenue Collection in Shiraz”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 3 March 2015
“How an Indian performance troupe found itself destitute in Victorian London”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 5 February 2015
2014
“The Indigo Trade in the Gulf in the Nineteenth Century”, Qatar Digital Library, 23 December 2014
“Water, not Oil, the most valuable Resource in the Gulf”, Qatar Digital Library, 18 December 2014
“Divers are a Pearl’s best Friend: Pearl Diving in the Gulf, 1840s-1930s”, Qatar Digital Library, 18 December 2014
“Air Crashes in the Gulf during the Second World War”, Qatar Digital Library, 18 December 2014
“The Second World War comes to Bahrain”, Qatar Digital Library, 17 December 2014
“Negotiating the Origins of the Gulf’s Aviation Industry”, Qatar Digital Library, 16 December 2014
“Britain’s ineffectual Efforts to suppress the Slave Trade”, Qatar Digital Library, 16 December 2014
“Emir Faisal’s Diplomatic Mission and Britain’s Reluctance to invest in Saudi Oil in 1932”, Qatar Digital Library, 16 December 2014
“British Government resist Modernisation of the Pearling Industry”, Qatar Digital Library, 12 December 2014
“A Nineteenth-Century Approach to the Conservation of Government Records”, Qatar Digital Library, 15 October 2014
“Manumission not Abolition: British Mediations over Slavery in the Gulf”, Qatar Digital Library, 14 October 2014
“The Euphrates Expedition of 1836: Ingenuity and Tragedy in Mesopotamia”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 2 October 2014
“A Polymath in Muscat“, British Library Untold Lives blog, 28 August 2014
“People in the Gulf: Native Agents at Sharjah”, Qatar Digital Library, 11 August 2014
“Qatari History: Pivotal Moments revealed in the India Office Records”, Qatar Digital Library, 4 August 2014
“Piracy and Plunder off the Oman Coast”, British Library Untold Lives blog, 28 August 2014
2013
2012
‘Farmers on notice’: the threat faced by Weimar Berlin’s garden colonies in the face of the city’s Neues Bauen housing programme Urban History Journal, May 2012
Mark Hobbs 