'Before The Oil' in the press
The National (UAE)
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Peter Lienhardt: The Englishman who chronicled a disappearing way of life in what became the UAE (2022) - https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/2022/12/02/the-quiet-englishman-who-chronicled-a-disappearing-way-of-life-in-what-became-the-uae/
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Special Report: The day the oil came to Abu Dhabi (2018) - https://www.thenational.ae/uae/heritage/special-report-the-day-the-oil-came-to-abu-dhabi-1.716597
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The first Noël: 60 years of Christmas carols in Abu Dhabi (2017) - https://www.thenational.ae/uae/the-first-no%C3%ABl-60-years-of-christmas-carols-in-abu-dhabi-1.690148
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Abu Dhabi Award: A book to recall life so very long ago (2016) - https://www.thenational.ae/uae/a-book-to-recall-life-so-very-long-ago-1.211971
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Story of a lifetime of love for Abu Dhabi: The passing on Sunday of Susan Hillyard will leave a void in the lives and memories of all who met her.(2014) - https://www.thenational.ae/uae/story-of-a-lifetime-of-love-for-abu-dhabi-1.282900
Emirates News Agency (UAE)
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Arabic version of ‘Before the Oil’, a 1950s memoir of Abu Dhabi, published (2019) - http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302733794
The Times (UK)
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Susan Hillyard: Oil executive’s wife whose memoir of day-to-day life in the 1950s Gulf summoned up an enchanting and vanished world (2014) - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/susan-hillyard-zmvnd9pbs9p
The Telegraph (UK)
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Susan Hillyard - Obituary: Susan Hillyard was an oil executive’s wife whose make-do-and-mend optimism won over Abu Dhabi’s royal family (2014) - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10653927/Susan-Hillyard-obituary.html
Tribulus: Journal of the Emirates Natural History Group
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Book Review: Page 30 (2002) - http://www.enhg.org/Portals/1/trib/V13N1/TribulusV13N1Searchable.pdf
Others
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Oxford Today (2014) - Obituary
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BP Newsletter (2014) - Obituary