'''Joseph Swire''' (1903–1978) was a journalist and historian with a particular interest in the Balkans.
==Life== Swire travelled in Albania and wrote a book about the country before being accredited as a journalist there in 1930. In 1931 he was expelled for publishing stories displeasing to the Zog regime.<ref name=Crampton>R. J. Crampton, "The Journalist-Historian in Politics: Joseph Swire, the Damian Velchev Case and Anglo-Bulgarian Relations", ''East European Quarterly'' 25:3 (1991), pp. 257-296</ref> In 1932 he became the correspondent of Reuters and ''The New York Times'' in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, where he was expelled in 1935.<ref name=Crampton />
After the Second World War he settled in the west of Scotland and worked as bursar to Gordonstoun School.<ref name=Crampton />
==Publications== * ''Albania: The Rise of a Kingdom'', 1929 * ''King Zog's Albania'', 1937 * ''Bulgarian Conspiracy'', 1939
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