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Keeping 'the Old Flag flying': The British community in Morocco and the British Morocco Merchants Association, 1914-24 (2010)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. (2010). Keeping 'the Old Flag flying': The British community in Morocco and the British Morocco Merchants Association, 1914-24. Historical Research, 83(222), 719-746. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2009.00527.x

This article examines the British expatriate community in Morocco and specifically in Tangier at a formative time in the country's history. Growing French ascendancy in Morocco and the strains imposed by war exposed weaknesses in British prospects in... Read More about Keeping 'the Old Flag flying': The British community in Morocco and the British Morocco Merchants Association, 1914-24.

Gentleman spies in Asia (2010)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. (2010). Gentleman spies in Asia. Asian Affairs, 41(2), 202-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068371003747829

This article covers the gathering of intelligence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Asia, particularly in Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Inevitably, the Great Game and concerns about Russian intentions loomed large. Initially... Read More about Gentleman spies in Asia.