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.
[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] In 1932 he became the correspondent of
Reuters and
The New York Times in the Bulgarian capital
Sofia, where he was expelled in 1935.
After the Second World War he settled in the west of Scotland and worked as bursar to Gordonstoun School.
Publications
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Albania: The Rise of a Kingdom, 1929
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King Zog's Albania, 1937
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Bulgarian Conspiracy, 1939
