Andrew Whitehead
On this site ...
Highlights: images of Kashmir in 1947 here ... that great Liberal anthem 'The Land Song' ... the London writings and war novels of Alexander Baron ... and a selection of iconic political pamphlets
Welcome to my website
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 abotu the site and its contents - here's where you can contact me. Thanks for paying my website a visit - do come again.
Click on the photo for more images of 1940's Kashmir
Click above to see some great political pamphlets
Click on this Primrose League badge for more political badges
A key London novel - click above for more
My e-mail address is awkashmir@googlemail.com
And another site to visit ... http://www.londonfictions.com/
What's new on this site!
September 4 - a brand new haul of political badges, a gift from John Powles
August 29 - 'peeli wali' revisited
August 18 - a new page about fictional representations of the origins of the Kashmir conflict
August 18 - Bengal in the Borders, find out more
August 29 - 'peeli wali' revisited
August 18 - a new page about fictional representations of the origins of the Kashmir conflict
August 18 - Bengal in the Borders, find out more
August 18 - a novel of contemporary Afghanistan (above) - more on the blog
August 13 - Andy Roth, Parliamentary profiler and his links to the origins of the Kashmir conflict ...turn to the blog
August 13 - Andy Roth, Parliamentary profiler and his links to the origins of the Kashmir conflict ...turn to the blog
June 26 - on the Partition Voices page, the audio of a perpetrator of Partition violence
June 16 - a tribute on the blog to the late Mrs Khorshed Italia, above, a gentle and lovely woman who was so brave at Partition
June 8 - Arnold Circus, London's loveliest bandstand, turns 100 - on the blog
May 26 - Ghana's Cape Coast, once a major slaving centre - more here
Apr 25 - Bernard Kops's poetry reading at the Torriano is the subject of a blog
Apr 10 - The five radio programmes I made in 1997 'India: a People Partitioned', are now online here
Apr 6 - a red letter day for this site, now upgraded for audio and video. Check out the century old recording of The Land Song
Apr 10 - The five radio programmes I made in 1997 'India: a People Partitioned', are now online here
Apr 6 - a red letter day for this site, now upgraded for audio and video. Check out the century old recording of The Land Song