This site had 50,223 page views in December - 
that's 709,221 page views from 123,974 unique visits in the course of 2018 
The top pages, images of Kashmir from 1947 ... Partition Voices ...
the novels of Alexander Baron ... and above all, my blog ...
And I'm on Facebook - Twitter - Instagram - YouTube - Soundcloud 
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The Lives of Freda
the political, spiritual and personal
 journeys of Freda Bedi
coming in Feb from Speaking Tiger
Curious King's Cross
** just published **
 and available post free (in the UK)
​from the publishers Five Leaves!


​Welcome!
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After 35 years with the BBC as correspondent, presenter and latterly Editor of BBC World Service News, I am now a historian, lecturer and freelance journalist. I am an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham; I teach American undergraduates in London for Global Education Oregon; I'm also a visiting professor at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai, south India.

My biography of Freda Bedi will be published in the next few months - watch this space! And as you can see above, the latest of my titles about Curious London is coming out soon too.

This website is about my enthusiasms, interests and the issues and topics which have caught my attention. These range from contemporary Kashmir to my collections of political pamphlets and badges.

I've also posted on the site listings of my interviews with those who lived through Partition in South Asia, my recordings of British political activists, a visual record of Kashmir in the turbulent year of 1947, and the audio of some of my radio documentaries.

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

Andrew Whitehead

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Click on the photo for more images of 1940s Kashmir
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Click above to see some great political pamphlets
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Click on this for more political badges
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A key London novel - click above for more
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'India, a people partitioned' - a radio series, click above

My e-mail address is awkashmir@gmail.com

Another site to visit ... http://www.londonfictions.com/


​What's new on this site
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January 4: a New Year ramble to Rinkoffs, one of the last East End Jewish bakeries
November 30: a wonderful 1795 ha'penny token issued by the radical reformers of the London Corresponding Society
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November 17: the most remarkable and controversial of Victorian radicals, the Godless Charles Bradlaugh, MP for Northampton ... and for India
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November 11: on the centenary of armistice day, remembering Joseph Whitehead, my grandfather and a despatch rider in WW1
October 19: after 34 years, another old favourite bites the dust - the demise of Dartmouth Park Pottery
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October 6:  George 'Jonah' Jones, the Communist who polled 10,000+ votes in Tory Hornsey in 1945 ... and he still came third
September 7: 'gators on the prowl on the Louisiana Bayou
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August 26: the Partition memories of the late Kuldip Nayar, who crossed the new border on foot just after independence
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August 2: The Land of Liberty - yes, it's a pub - and the 1840s Chartist land colony it celebrates
July 13: the best of the anti-Trump protest
June: a week in the Faroes
May 22: God's Acre - the Moravian burial ground on Chelsea's King's Road
April 10: the audio of my radio series on India's Partition has been reposted
March 11: the bitter sweet story of Laurence Hope aka Adela Cory aka Violet Nicolson and the poems she wrote
March 6: a rare sight in Chennai - a seller of rare books ​
February 18: see what's washing up on Mumbai's Juhu beach
January 8: 'Kashmir Celebrates Independence' [sic] - fabulous newsreel footage from 1948 posted here