Andrew Whitehead

My name is Andrew Whitehead. I work as a news journalist, but this website is about the other aspects of my life - my enthusiasms, interests and the issues and topics which have caught my attention. These range from contemporary Kashmir to representations of London in fiction, from the Liberal campaigning anthem 'The Land Song' to my collections of political pamphlets and memorabilia.

I've posted on the site some material which I hope may be of interest to researchers - listings of my interviews with those who lived through Partition in South Asia, my recordings of the recollections of British political activists, a visual record of Kashmir in the turbulent year of 1947, and the audio of some of the radio documentaries I have compiled and presented.

There's a blog too - do take a look. And I'd be very keen to hear from you about the site and its contents - here's where you can contact me. Thanks for paying my website a visit - do come again.

Jan 22: 'Quality Trim' in Steptoe country

Jan 21: a cult London novel, Terry Taylor's wonderful Baron's Court, All Change

Jan 21: audio of Calcutta Partition era goonda Gopal 'Patha' Mukherjee added to Partition Voices page

Jan 14: the view from Primrose Hill

Jan 7: 'Cohen the Crooner, the Crosby of Mile End' - complete with YouTube clip

Jan 2: Dartmouth Park to Dalston Junction - come with me!

Dec 19: above, a 1948 photo of a Unity Theatre outing to Box Hill - but who's in it?

Dec 16: 'Hey Ho, Cook and Rowe', Peggy Seeger's song about an NW5 rent strike

Nov 12: a blast about Blustons, and classic Kentish Town

Nov 5: the fruits of my winter wander (including above) on the blog

October 9 - the last of the lovely Blue Carbuncle  - on the blog (and above)

September 16 - the 'Dock Strike' union - a first issue of its journal

October 6 2010 - Tufnell Park's lost landmark - captured, above, by the artist Fermin Rocker