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Freda Bedi looking 'From a Woman's Window' on Kashmir
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The Land Song
Harry Pollitt on disc
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FOOC: Working at Westminster 1990
FOOC: Ulster's Talking Shop 1991
FOOC: House Rules at Westminster 1992
FOOC: India's Red Fort State
FOOC: Keeping Kosher in Cuba
FOOC: Italy's Gourmand Communists 1992
FOOC: Scoundrel Politicians - 1993
FOOC: Kashmir's New Puritans 1993
FOOC: The Rajah of Bihar 1993
FOOC: Bringing the Gospel to Mizoram 1993
FOOC: Netaji, India's Lost Leader 1994
FOOC: A Self-Respect Wedding 1994
FOOC: The Miseries of Manipur 1994
FOOC: Village Bangladesh 1994
FOOC: Indian Beauty 1995
FOOC: Calcutta's Communists Discover Capitalism 1995
FOOC: Localism in Ladakh 1995
FOOC: Bhutan, not quite Paradise
FOOC: Crime and Indian Politics 1995
FOOC: Sonia Gandhi 1995
FOOC: Sri Lanka's Missing Leaders 1995
FOOC: India Votes 1996
FOOC: Communism Revisited 1996
FOOC: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 1996
FOOC: Kerala's Jewish Community 1996
FOOC: India's Corruption Scandals 1996
FOOC: The Maldives Crowded Capital 1996
FOOC: India's Polluted Capital 1996
FOOC: Jinnah, Pakistan's Quaid 1997
FOOC: Mauritius, an Indian Ocean melting pot
FOOC: The Hijras Blessing 1998
FOOC: Massacre at Baramulla 2003
FOOC: An Old Photo from Kashmir 2007
FOOC: Prosperity Driven from Detroit 2008
FOOC: An Atheist in MLK's Atlanta2013
FOOC: San Francisco's City Lights 2014
FOOC: Kashmir Revisited 2014
FOOC: By Ferry in Burma 2014
FOOC: Toyah's Grave 2017
FOOC: The Tibetan Colony in Kashmir 2017
FOOC: Stars of Tamil Politics 2018
FOOC: Koreans in Chennai 2018
FOOC: Epitaph to Empire 2019
FOOC: Armenians in India 2019
FOOC: Lahore's Bradlaugh Hall 2020
FOOC: Chennai and the British Empire 2023
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The Occupational Structure of Clerkenwell
(including Notes on a Labour Aristocracy)
a draft chapter from an uncompleted doctoral thesis
'Popular Politics and Social Structure in Clerkenwell, 1860-1890'
=Andrew Whitehead=
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links to all the available draft chapters
of this thesis - and here's a
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Enthusiasms
London Fictions
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Alexander Baron
A walk round Baron's manor
John Sommerfield
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John Sommerfield Archive
John Sommerfield's Spanish notebook
John Sommerfield, 'More Room for Us'
Lynne Reid Banks
"Against the Tyranny of Kings and Princes": radicalism in George Gissing's 'Workers in the Dawn'
'Beyond Boundary Passage'
'London' by Dorf Bonarjee
A Mission in Kashmir
>
Full text: A Mission in Kashmir
'The People's Militia: Communists and Kashmiri nationalism in the 1940s'
The Rise and Fall of New Kashmir
The Making of the 'New Kashmir' manifesto
'For the Conversion of Kashmir'
'I shall paint my nails with the blood of those that covet me'
Freda Bedi looking 'From a Woman's Window' on Kashmir
Kashmir 1947: Testimonies of a Contested History
Kashmir @ 70
Kashmir 47 Images
Kashmir 47 on film
Kashmir 47 in fiction
Father Shanks's Kashmir 'Diary'
Krishna Misri: 1947, a year of change
Shanti Ambardar: Kashmir 1947
The O'Brienites
>
Martin Boon
Dan Chatterton
George E. Harris
John Radford and the Kansas colony
James Finlen
Edward Truelove
'New World'
Clerkenwell
>
Popular Politics and Social Structure in Clerkenwell
>
The Residents of Clerkenwell
The Occupational Structure of Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell and Reform
Fenians, Reformers and the Clerkenwell "Outrage"
Clerkenwell: Socialism Finds a Niche
Clerkenwell: Not Forgetting the Anarchists
Red London: radicals and socialists in late-Victorian Clerkenwell
Patriotic Club
NW5 and Around
>
George Jones, Hornsey Communist
Voices
Partition Voices
>
Partition Voices: L.K. Advani
Partition Voices: Ram Advani
Partition Voices: Qazi Ghulam Ajmiri
Partition Voices: Angela Aranha
Partition Voices: Helen Baldwin
Partition Voices: Bali family
Partition Voices: Edward Behr
Partition Voices: Benazir Bhutto
Partition Voices: H.K. Burki
Partition Voices: Sailen Chatterjee
Partition Voices: Pran Chopra
Partition Voices: K.S. + Ayesha Duggal
Partition Voices: Alys Faiz
Partition Voices: Jugal Chandra Ghosh
Partition Voices: Ashoka Gupta
Partition Voices: I.K. Gujral
Partition Voices: Syed Najmuddin Hashim
Partition Voices: Khorshed Italia
Partition Voices: Pran Nath Jalali
Partition Voices: D.N. Kaul
Partition Voices: Jolly Mohan Kaul
Partition Voices: Basant Kaur
Partition Voices: Betty Keyes
Partition Voices: Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan
Partition Voices: Usha Khanna
Partition Voices: Frank Leeson
Partition Voices: Abdul Ghani Lone
Partition Voices: Gopal 'Patha' Mukherjee
Partition Voices: Kuldip Nayar
Partition Voices: Amrita Pritam
Partition Voices: Begum Aizaz Rasul
Partition Voices: Francis Rath
Partition Voices: Annada Sankar Ray
Partition Voices: Bhisham Sahni
Partition Voices: Sat Paul Sahni
Partition Voices: Sir Ian Scott
Partition Voices: Sir Paul Scott
Partition Voices: Sheila Sengupta
Partition Voices: Mahmooda Ahmad Ali Shah + Sajida Zameer Ahmad
Partition Voices: Bapsi Sidhwa & Urvashi Butalia
Partition Voices: Air Marshal Arjan Singh
Partition Voices: Bir Bahadur Singh
Partition Voices: Karan Singh
Partition Voices: Khushwant Singh
Partition Voices: Shingara Singh
Partition Voices: H.S. Surjeet
Partition Voices: Ben and Marguerite Suter
Partition Voices: Leela Thompson
Partition Voices: K.B. Vaid
Kashmir Voices
>
Kashmir Voices: Asiya Andrabi
Kashmir Voices: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
Kashmir Voices: George Fernandes
Kashmir Voices: General J.R. Mukherjee
Kashmir Voices: Abdullah Muntazir
Kashmir Voices: Ali Mohammad Sagar
Kashmir Voices: Syed Salahuddin
Communist Voices
>
Communist Voices: Manmohan Adhikari
Communist Voices: Jyoti Basu
Communist Voices: Brian Bunting
Communist Voices: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Communist Voices: Benoy Choudhury
Communist Voices: Anima Dasgupta
Communist Voices: Sailen Dasgupta
Communist Voices: Denis Goldberg
Communist Voices: Grootvlie miners
Communist Voices: Indrajit Gupta
Communist Voices: Chris Hani
Communist Voices: Norman Le Brocq
Communist Voices: Lionel Martin
Communist Voices: Vishwanath Mathur
Communist Voices: Geeta Mukherjee
Communist Voices: E.M.S. Namboodiripad
Communist Voices: John Rettie
Political Voices
>
Political Voices: Sally Alexander
Political Voices: Lou Appleton
Political Voices: Murray Bookchin
Political Voices: Fenner Brockway
Political Voices: Tony Cliff
Political Voices: Nellie Dick
Political Voices: Leah Feldman
Political Voices: Jeffrey Hamm
Political Voices: Denis Healey
Political Voices: Eric Hobsbawm
Political Voices: Rose Kerrigan
Political Voices: George Matthews
Political Voices: Ian Mikardo
Political Voices: Mick Mindel
Political Voices: Adrian Mitchell
Political Voices: Phil Piratin
Political Voices: Betty Reid
Political Voices: Fermin Rocker
Political Voices: Ralph Russell
Political Voices: Sam Russell
Political Voices: John Saville
Political Voices: Alfred Sherman
Political Voices: Screaming Lord Sutch
Political Voices: Dorothy Thompson
Political Voices: E.P. Thompson
Political Voices: Tom Wilson
Political Voices: Harry Young
The Land Song
Harry Pollitt on disc
The British New Left
>
New Left: Neal Ascherson
New Left: T.J. Clark
New Left: Catherine Hall
New Left: Jean McCrindle
New Left: Chuck Taylor
New Left: Headopoly
South Asia
Burma
Collecting
Political Pamphlets
Political Journals
Political Badges
Political Tokens
Political Ephemera
Radio Gems
'What's Left of Communism?'
'India: a people partitioned'
India's Minorities
Documentaries and Features
From Our Own Correspondent
>
FOOC: Working at Westminster 1990
FOOC: Ulster's Talking Shop 1991
FOOC: House Rules at Westminster 1992
FOOC: India's Red Fort State
FOOC: Keeping Kosher in Cuba
FOOC: Italy's Gourmand Communists 1992
FOOC: Scoundrel Politicians - 1993
FOOC: Kashmir's New Puritans 1993
FOOC: The Rajah of Bihar 1993
FOOC: Bringing the Gospel to Mizoram 1993
FOOC: Netaji, India's Lost Leader 1994
FOOC: A Self-Respect Wedding 1994
FOOC: The Miseries of Manipur 1994
FOOC: Village Bangladesh 1994
FOOC: Indian Beauty 1995
FOOC: Calcutta's Communists Discover Capitalism 1995
FOOC: Localism in Ladakh 1995
FOOC: Bhutan, not quite Paradise
FOOC: Crime and Indian Politics 1995
FOOC: Sonia Gandhi 1995
FOOC: Sri Lanka's Missing Leaders 1995
FOOC: India Votes 1996
FOOC: Communism Revisited 1996
FOOC: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 1996
FOOC: Kerala's Jewish Community 1996
FOOC: India's Corruption Scandals 1996
FOOC: The Maldives Crowded Capital 1996
FOOC: India's Polluted Capital 1996
FOOC: Jinnah, Pakistan's Quaid 1997
FOOC: Mauritius, an Indian Ocean melting pot
FOOC: The Hijras Blessing 1998
FOOC: Massacre at Baramulla 2003
FOOC: An Old Photo from Kashmir 2007
FOOC: Prosperity Driven from Detroit 2008
FOOC: An Atheist in MLK's Atlanta2013
FOOC: San Francisco's City Lights 2014
FOOC: Kashmir Revisited 2014
FOOC: By Ferry in Burma 2014
FOOC: Toyah's Grave 2017
FOOC: The Tibetan Colony in Kashmir 2017
FOOC: Stars of Tamil Politics 2018
FOOC: Koreans in Chennai 2018
FOOC: Epitaph to Empire 2019
FOOC: Armenians in India 2019
FOOC: Lahore's Bradlaugh Hall 2020
FOOC: Chennai and the British Empire 2023
What's your favourite political song?
London Snapshots
Writing
Bibliography
Tramping Artisans
Working Class Housing in Jericho, Oxford
New Statesman
The Freethinker
Outlook
Asian Age
Indian Express
miscellaneous writing
David Goodway contact and writings
>
Goodway Libertarian Politics of G.K. Chesterton
Gallery
Contact