The top pages, images of Kashmir from 1947 ... Partition Voices ...
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The Lives of Freda
the political, spiritual and personal  journeys of Freda Bedi
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=by Andrew Whitehead= 
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published by Speaking Tiger

​Welcome!
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I am a historian, lecturer and freelance journalist after 35 years with the BBC as a correspondent, presenter and Editor of BBC World Service News. 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 was published in 2019 - more here! And the latest of my titles about Curious London is out 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 and oral history.

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

Click on the photo for more images of 1940s Kashmir

Click above to see some great political pamphlets

Click on this for more political badges

A key London novel - click above for more

'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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Dec 2: such a splendid piece of political ephemera, a membership card of the Land and Labour League, established 1869

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November 10: a wander round the wonderful Walthamstow Wetlands

November 1: Is this Charles Darwin?

September 24: a peek inside 'London's non-religious church'

August 15: Lavenham - a trip back to the sixteenth century

July 20:Wildcat to Zero, summoning up the anarchist press of the seventies

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July 13: one of the most charming of Tufnell Park houses - and it's in danger of demolition!

June 8: a wonderful broadside from the early 1640s, when King and Parliament were veering towards civil war

April 16: uncovered among my father's books, a memento both of WW2 and the era when Gildersome was a mill village

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March 17: British radical, suffragist, Theosophist and Indian nationalist Annie Besant and the Gokhale Hall she set up and paid for in Madras

March 1: Chennai's Burmese noodle stalls, set up by refugees in the 1960s

February 16: women of Washermanpet demanding the repeal of  anti-Muslim laws 

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January 16: Bradlaugh Hall, once Lahore's main nationalist venue - now slowly crumbling away. Sad to see!