This site had 56,133 page views in March - 
and 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
published Feb 2019 by Speaking Tiger
Curious King's Cross
published October 2018
 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 any day now - watch this space! And as you can see above, the latest of my titles about Curious London is just 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.

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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April 1: the story behind Cyril Satorsky's cover design for this classic India-set novel, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's The Householder
March 9: Shankar's castle - he's the watchman at Chennai's crumbling Victoria Hostel
March 4: Freda Bedi and her biographer
February 24: dosas at dawn in Chennai
 February 11: Dinesh, the ex-wrestler who now makes saffron lassi - Chennai blog
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January 26: back in the wonderfully photogenic city of Chennai
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