The top pages, images of Kashmir from 1947 ... Partition Voices ...
the novels of Alexander Baron ... and my blog ...
And I'm on Facebook - Twitter - Instagram - YouTube
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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

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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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July 19:  where best to bend both knees in Romney marshes
July 2: Anyone for cards? An exquisite card box made for an officer in the Indian army
June 1: Hobsbawm and all that jazz
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April 10: how - and why - my bronze bust of the pre-eminent Victorian radical, freethinker, republican and Irish / Indian nationalist  MP, Charles Bradlaugh, became twinned
Feb 28: Paul Saxton's last stand - after 42 years of running Crouch End's news stall 

​Feb 7: Raj, Tagore & Jind Kaur - an India-tinged tour of Kensal Green cemetery
Jan 7: Why Miss World? - from 1970-1
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'