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.

May 2 - once upon a time at Bush House

April 16 - the real Riceyman Steps, a drawing from the 1920s

April 14 - the 'White Heat' of culturally forlorn Tufnell Park, on the blog

April 9: 'Inshallah, Football' in Kashmir

April 7: the farthest reaches of London's Docklands

March 11: an architectural gem (above) amid the mayhem of 'the Whittington'

Feb 16: Delhi's wonderfully dated 'outer circle' - Marques & Co's music shop

Feb 12: visiting the Rocker residence on Stepney Green

Feb 9: Delhi's great delight (above)

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

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