My principal research interests lie in British imperial history, with a particular focus on modern diplomatic history in modern North Africa and the wider Mediterranean. I have published on British consular and diplomatic correspondence and British intervention and intelligence gathering in North Africa. Address: Ms. Sara ElGaddari
Department of History
University of Hull
Cottingham Road
Hull, HU6 7RX
At the turn of the nineteenth century, and in response to internal social and economic challenges... more At the turn of the nineteenth century, and in response to internal social and economic challenges, as well as external pressure from northern Europe, the Regency of Tripoli attempted to address a number of pressing economic challenges. Within the context of ongoing local and regional adaptation, this paper considers the extent to which the government of Yusuf Pasha Qaramanli (1766–1838) sought to reformulate Tripoli’s relationship with its subjects and neighbours (particularly Egypt) through the activities of its notables such as Hassuna D’Ghies 1792– after 18 September 1832). Utilising the first-hand accounts of one Tripoline ambassador, this project sheds light on a series of encounters around the place and role of the slave trade in Tripoli’s attempt to diversify its sources of economic revenue in the first half of the nineteenth century.
This article will challenge the currently accepted notions of weak British consular presence, inf... more This article will challenge the currently accepted notions of weak British consular presence, influence and activity in the southern Mediterranean during the period 1795–1832 through a case study of the careers of three successive consuls in the Regency of Tripoli: Simon Lucas, William Wass Langford and Hanmer Warrington. Utilising the official correspondence of these agents, the extent of the consular bridgehead in the capital, Tripoli, will be investigated, and how, through these consular and diplomatic agents, it served to define imperial interests and activity at the frontiers of empire. Moreover, the overlapping personal and professional networks within which the consuls embedded themselves, the role of enterprising missions and the development of an intelligence-gathering network will be of central significance in understanding the consequent ruptures in the social and political fabric of the Regency of Tripoli. British imperial interest in North Africa during and immediately post the Napoleonic era remains under-studied and misunderstood within both British diplomatic and imperial history. This article challenges the existing literature that underestimates the diplomatic as well as consular power exercised by the British consuls to Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, as well as the importance of these three Barbary regencies to wider strategic interests in the Mediterranean.
This is a book chapter in Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean Worl... more This is a book chapter in Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World edited by Owain Wright and Mika Wright, O. Suonpää.
Camden Fifth Series, Royal Historical Society and Cambridge University Press, 2020
This edition presents the official correspondence and reoprts of the British consular and diploma... more This edition presents the official correspondence and reoprts of the British consular and diplomatic agents in the Regency of Tripoli from 1793 to 1832. These dispatches emphasise the importance of Tripoli to British strategic interests and ambitions in North Africa and the Mediterranean during the early nineteenth century.The dispatches provide evidence of the development of an influential bridgehead and protected imperial presence in Tripoli in the post-Napoleonic era.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, and in response to internal social and economic challenges... more At the turn of the nineteenth century, and in response to internal social and economic challenges, as well as external pressure from northern Europe, the Regency of Tripoli attempted to address a number of pressing economic challenges. Within the context of ongoing local and regional adaptation, this paper considers the extent to which the government of Yusuf Pasha Qaramanli (1766–1838) sought to reformulate Tripoli’s relationship with its subjects and neighbours (particularly Egypt) through the activities of its notables such as Hassuna D’Ghies 1792– after 18 September 1832). Utilising the first-hand accounts of one Tripoline ambassador, this project sheds light on a series of encounters around the place and role of the slave trade in Tripoli’s attempt to diversify its sources of economic revenue in the first half of the nineteenth century.
This article will challenge the currently accepted notions of weak British consular presence, inf... more This article will challenge the currently accepted notions of weak British consular presence, influence and activity in the southern Mediterranean during the period 1795–1832 through a case study of the careers of three successive consuls in the Regency of Tripoli: Simon Lucas, William Wass Langford and Hanmer Warrington. Utilising the official correspondence of these agents, the extent of the consular bridgehead in the capital, Tripoli, will be investigated, and how, through these consular and diplomatic agents, it served to define imperial interests and activity at the frontiers of empire. Moreover, the overlapping personal and professional networks within which the consuls embedded themselves, the role of enterprising missions and the development of an intelligence-gathering network will be of central significance in understanding the consequent ruptures in the social and political fabric of the Regency of Tripoli. British imperial interest in North Africa during and immediately post the Napoleonic era remains under-studied and misunderstood within both British diplomatic and imperial history. This article challenges the existing literature that underestimates the diplomatic as well as consular power exercised by the British consuls to Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, as well as the importance of these three Barbary regencies to wider strategic interests in the Mediterranean.
This is a book chapter in Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean Worl... more This is a book chapter in Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World edited by Owain Wright and Mika Wright, O. Suonpää.
Camden Fifth Series, Royal Historical Society and Cambridge University Press, 2020
This edition presents the official correspondence and reoprts of the British consular and diploma... more This edition presents the official correspondence and reoprts of the British consular and diplomatic agents in the Regency of Tripoli from 1793 to 1832. These dispatches emphasise the importance of Tripoli to British strategic interests and ambitions in North Africa and the Mediterranean during the early nineteenth century.The dispatches provide evidence of the development of an influential bridgehead and protected imperial presence in Tripoli in the post-Napoleonic era.
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