Andrew Whitehead: bibliography - excluding short reviews and journalism
BOOKS
A Mission in Kashmir, Viking Penguin: New Delhi, 2007; translated into Tamil, 2011; republished by Gulshan Books, Srinagar, 2015 posted here
[co-editor with Jerry White] London Fictions, Five Leaves: Nottingham, 2013
(with Martin Plaut), Curious Kentish Town, Five Leaves: Nottingham, 2014
(with Martin Plaut), Curious Camden Town, Five Leaves: Nottingham, 2015
Curious King's Cross, Five Leaves: Nottingham, 2018
The Lives of Freda: the political, spiritual and personal journeys of Freda Bedi, Speaking Tiger: Delhi, 2019
[co-editor with Susie Thomas and Ken Worpole], So We Live: the novels of Alexander Baron, Five Leaves: Nottingham, 2019
Curious Crouch End, Five Leaves: Nottingham, 2021
[co-editor with Mohini Gupta], The Hindu Bard: the poetry of Dorothy Bonarjee, Honno: Aberystwyth, 2023
A Devilish Kind of Courage: Anarchists, Aliens and the Siege of Sidney Street, Reaktion: London, 2024
Curious Muswell Hill, Five Leaves, Nottingham 2025
CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS
Edited and wrote introduction and postscript to J.W. Rounsfell, On the Road: journeys of a tramping printer, Caliban: Horsham, 1982
‘Refugees from Partition’ (pp.273-5) in Parasuraman S. and Unnikrishnan P.V., India Disasters Report: towards a policy initiative, Oxford University Press: New Delhi, 2000
Introduction to new edition of Alexander Baron, Rosie Hogarth, New London Editions: Nottingham, 2010
‘Beyond Boundary Passage’ (pp.135-8) in Maps, ed Ross Bradshaw, Five Leaves: Nottingham, 2011
‘George Gissing: The Nether World’ (pp. 9-20) in London Fictions, eds Andrew Whitehead and Jerry White, Five Leaves: Nottingham, 2013 posted here
‘The People’s Militia: Communists and Kashmiri nationalism in the 1940s’ (pp. 128-154) in Partition: the long shadow, ed Urvashi Butalia, Zubaan / Viking Penguin: Delhi, 2015
'Does the World Service Have a Future?'' (pp. 150-157) in The BBC Today: Future Uncertain, eds John Mair, Richard Tait and Richard Lance Keeble, Abramis, 2015
'Modi's World: Beyond Selfies and Tweets' (pp.168-176) in Making Sense of Modi's India, HarperCollins India, 2016
'The Rise and Fall of New Kashmir' (pp.70-88) in Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation, edited by Chitralekha Zutshi, Cambridge University Press, 2018 posted here
'"Very Heaven it was to be a Young Communist"' (pp.55-82) in So We Live: the novels of Alexander Baron, edited by Susie Thomas, Andrew Whitehead and Ken Worpole, Five Leaves: Nottingham, 2019
'The Making of the New Kashmir Manifesto' (pp,15-32) in India at 70: multidisciplinary approaches, edited by Ruth Maxey and Paul McGarr, Routledge: London and New York, 2020 posted here
'"For the Conversion of Kashmir": the massacre at St. Joseph's mission hospital in Baramulla' (pp.195-212) in Religion and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir edited by Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay and Mohita Bhatia, Routledge India: London, 2021 posted here
'Freda Bedi looking "From a Woman's Window" on Kashmir' in Writings about Kashmir: illuminating the labyrinthine region edited by Nyla Ali Khan, Routledge, 2023
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
‘”Quorum Pars Fui”: the autobiography of H.H. Champion’ [documentary essay], Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, 47, 1983, pp.17-35
‘”Against the Tyranny of Kings and Princes”: radicalism in Workers in the Dawn’, Gissing Newsletter, 22/4, 1986, pp.13-28 posted here
‘Dan Chatterton and his “Atheistic Communistic Scorcher”’, History Workshop Journal, 25, 1988, pp.85-99 posted here
[as John Pether] 'Conversation with Nellie Dick', Raven, 6, 1988, pp.155-166
‘Red London: radicals and socialists in late-Victorian Clerkenwell’, Socialist History, 18, 2000, pp.1-31 posted here
‘The People’s Militia: Communists and Kashmiri nationalism in the 1940s’, Twentieth Century Communism: a journal of international history, 2, 2010, pp.141-68 – republished in Partition: the long shadow, see above posted here
'"Jones for Hornsey": when a Communist took 10,000 Hornsey votes', Hornsey Historical Society Bulletin, 62, 2021, pp.6-13
'Freda Bedi looking "From a Woman's Window" on Kashmir', South Asian Review, 43, 2022 and republished in Writings about Kashmir: illuminating the labyrinthine region, see above - available online
'"I shall paint my nails with the blood of those that covet me": Kashmir's Women's Militia and Independence-era Nationalism'. History Workshop Journal, 93, 2022, available online here
Interviews with the New Left: 'A Very Special Time', the personal and the political and the genesis of the Women's Liberation Movement - Catherine Hall interviewed by Andrew Whitehead, History Workshop Journal, 96, 2023, available online here
Interviews with the New Left: 'It was the First Time I Felt the Spirit of Revolution', Protest and Politics in the 1950s and 1960s - Neal Ascherson interviewed by Andrew Whitehead, History Workshop Journal, 96, 2023, available online here
SHORT ARTICLES AND ESSAYS IN REVIEW
‘Notes on Sources: Labour history and dissolved company records’, Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, 44, 1982, pp.45-6 posted here
‘Notes on the Labour Press: the New World and the O’Brienite colony in Kansas’, Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, 53/3, 1988, pp.40-3 posted here
‘Women at the Borders’ [essay in review], History Workshop Journal, 47, 1999, pp.308-12
‘History On the Line: Bapsi Sidhwa and Urvashi Butalia discuss the Partition of India’ [discussion], History Workshop Journal, 50, 2000, pp.230-8
‘Tracing London in Literature’ [essay in review], History Workshop Journal, 50, 2000, pp.267-71
‘History On the Line: ‘No Common Ground’, Joseph Massad and Benny Morris discuss the Middle East’ [discussion], History Workshop Journal, 53, 2002, pp.205-16
‘Kashmir’s Conflicting Identities’ [essay in review], History Workshop Journal, 58, 2004, pp.335-40
‘Clerkenwell Tales’ [essay in review], History Workshop Journal, 68, 2009, pp.247-50
‘Entrails of Empire’ [essay in review], History Workshop Journal, 75, 2013, pp.247-51
‘India’s Unreal Cities’ [essay in review], Raritan, 33/4, Spring 2014, pp. 126-41
'Within the Saffron Family' [essay in review], London Review of Books, 37/17, 10 September 2015, pp. 33-4
'A Service to the World?' [essay in review], History Workshop Journal, 81, Spring 2016, pp.301-5
Obituary: Jean McCrindle (1937-2022), History Workshop Journal, 97, Spring 2024, pp. 251-5 advance publication online
'How India Tamed the Lion of Kashmir' [essay in review], History Workshop Journal, 99, Spring 2025, advance publication online
‘Henry Hyde Champion’, Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.8, 1987, pp.24-32
‘Daniel Chatterton’, Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.8, 1987, pp.32-36
‘Martin James Boon’, Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.9, 1993, pp.9-16 posted here
(with Gary Entz) ‘James Radford’, Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.12, 2005, pp.233-40 posted here
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
‘The decline of tramping in two trade unions (the Amalgamated Union of Cabinet Makers and the Typographical Association), 1840-1914’, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of M.A. in Social History, University of Warwick, 1978 - now posted online
‘The Kashmir Conflict of 1947: testimonies of a contested history – a critical overview submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by published works in History’, University of Warwick, 2013 http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/58396/1/WRAP_THESIS_Whitehead_2013.pdf
UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH
'The history of working class housing in Jericho [in Oxford]', 1977, 55ff typescript with photos and illustrations, research conducted at the initiative of the Museum of Oxfordshire and copy deposited at the Oxford City Library - now posted online
Five draft chapters of an uncompleted doctoral thesis with the working title 'Popular Politics and Social Structure in Clerkenwell, 1860-1890' - copies deposited during the 1980s at the Marx Memorial Library and at the Islington Local History Library. These chapters have also been posted online.
'Fenians, Reformers and the Clerkenwell Outrage', the text of a talk given to the Irish in Britain History Group, May 1984 - posted online