Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Argentina.
GP162 Argentina - Relatives of those who "Disappeared" during the military government's "dirty war" against leftists. Photograph by Frank Nowikowski
GP163 Argentina - Argentinian Services Chief: Lt.Gen. Roberto Viola, Commander-in-Chief of the Argentinian Army and member of the ruling military Junta. Camera Press (Pucciano) London
GP164 Argentina - Argentine author Daniel Moyano. By Jose Eduardo Lamarca
GP165 An Argentine Gaucho (South American cowboy)
GP166 Argentina - Evita Peron in a Cabinet meeting in Buenos Aires.
GP167 Argentina - Evita Peron in a Cabinet meeting in Buenos Aires
GP168 Argentina - New President Hector Jose Campora, 1973
GP169 Argentina - Buenos Aires' clock tower
GP486 Argentina - John G Phillimore, managing director of Baring Brothers and Co. Ltd. and leader of a British Trade mission, speaking with Mike Robinson, chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Argentina and managing director of the Anglo-Argentine Iron Co. [1969]

Selection of newspaper cuttings of Gemini News Service articles relating to Argentina.
Subjects covered include: the Catholic church, 1996; elections, 1994; economics, 1990-1994; Falkland Islands, 1993; British relations, 1990-1995; corruption, 1990-1994; crime, 1990; vigilantes, 1990; missing children, 1991; the military, 1996; indigenous peoples, 1993; football, 1995; marriage of President Carlos Menem, 1990; Nazi war criminals, 1993; Greenpeace, 1992; exports of wild birds, 1991-1992; animal rights, 1991; Antarctic fossils, 1992; Expo '92, 1990 and the murderer Alfredo Astiz, 1990.

Notebook, written mostly in longhand with some shorthand, containing notes on Robert Kennedy's visit to BA [Buenos Aires], Argentina in November 1965; Argentinian politics; labour movement, industry, economy and politics in Chile in 1965; and agrarian reform in Chile, 1968.

Names mentioned include: Bobby Kennedy [Robert Kennedy], [Arturo] Frondizi, [Pascual] Pistarini, [Juan Carlos] Onganía, Pedro Gugliemetti, [Eduardo] Frei [Montalva], Jose Musalem [Saffie], Hugo Trivelli, Fernando Ochagavía Valdés, George Lowe, Patricio Aylwin and Edward Korry.

Transcribed in 2021 as part of the Clyde Sanger shorthand transcription project with funding from The National Archive’s Collaborate and Innovate Testbed Fund. The pdf transcription document also contains a digitised copy of the notebook.

Photocopies of British and Argentinean newspaper articles relating to the imprisonment and release of journalists Ian Mather, Simon Winchester and photographer Tony Prime, who were arrested on suspicion of espionage by Argentine authorities in April 1982 during the Falklands War. Includes an article written by Simon Winchester on his experiences for his newspaper the Sunday Times.

Majority of material in English, but some material in Spanish.

Individuals featured include: Margaret Thatcher, David Steel, Al Haig, Ronald Reagan, Michael Foot, Geoffrey Howe, General Leopoldo Galtieri.

Subjects and events featured include: the Falklands War, Argentina, the United Nations.

Newspaper articles, press releases, copies of court papers, letters and notes relating to the imprisonment and release of Ian Mather, Simon Winchester and Tony Prime from their imprisonment in Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia, Argentina, during the Falklands War.

Research material relating to the Falklands War, 2 April and 14 June 1982.

Material includes: Newspapers, articles and clippings from British newspapers and periodicals such as the Guardian, the Times and Royal Air Force News and Navy News; typescript press releases from 10 Downing Street; and photocopies from Keesing's Contemporary Archives on the invasion of the Falkland Islands.

Subjects include: main events of the war, including the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano; the surrender of Argentina; and the resignations of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Lord Carrington, Lord Privy Seal Humphrey Atkins, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Richard Luce, and John Nott MP, whose resignation was not accepted.

Material relating to the imprisonment and release of journalists Ian Mather and Simon Winchester, and photographer Tony Prime (nicknamed The Ushuaia Three after the location of their prison) on suspicion of espionage by Argentinean authorities in April 1982, during the Falklands War.

The material, which is all photocopies, includes: an Argentinean pamphlet relating to the Argentinean Army having invaded the Falkland Islands; press releases from the Observer News Service, containing articles by Mather on his experiences in prison; papers from the Committee for the Release of the British Journalists held in Argentina, detailing the aims of the committee and the background to the situation; a letter he wrote while in prison, including extracts from his prison diary, to Donald Trelford (Observer editor), about life in jail, descriptions of the different prisoners and prison officials, and trying to contact friends and family; biographies of Ian Mather, Tony Prime and Simon Winchester; memos from Times Newspaper Limited relating to activities to try and release the men; copies of court papers relating to the bail applications for the journalists (in Spanish); transcripts of the grounds put forward by the prosecutor opposing bail of the journalists, and the grounds of the defence; transcripts of the interrogations of Tony Prime and Simon Winchester; press release from What the Papers Say announcing that the Observer won 'Newspaper of the Year' in 1982; press releases from Free the Journalists Committee or Committee for the Release of the British Journalists held in Argentina, which was specifically set up to campaign for their release; booklets from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ); poem by Mather's niece about the prisoners and the Falklands War; types and a memorandum titled 'The Ushuaia Three', describing efforts to drop the charges of espionage after their release.

Majority of material in English, but some material in Spanish.

Contains papers relating to work of Ian Mather as defence correspondent for the Observer, includes records relating to his imprisonment and release in Argentina during the Falklands War.

Records relating to the adminstration of IPI Executive Board General Assemblies, March 1985 - May 1988.

Includes a list of participants at the IPI 34th General Assembly, 3 - 6 March 1985, held in Cairo, Egypt; transcript of a speech on press freedom in the United Kingdom, given by Donald Trelford (Observer editor) at the 34th IPI General Assembly, February 1985; papers from the IPI Executive Board held on 10 May 1986 in Vienna, Austria; correspondence between Peter Galliner (IPI director) and Peter Preston (editor) concerning plans for a IPI assembly in the United Kingdon, 1986-1988; transcript of a speech on press freedom in Kenya at the 35th IPI General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, May 1986; a draft letter from the editor of 'El Pais', Juan Luis Cebrian, requesting an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, December 1986; minutes of the IPI Working Committee meeting held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 9 May 1987 and the IPI Executive Board held in Buenos Aires, 10 May 1987, Montevideo, Uruguay, 13 May 1987, Turin, Italy, 18 March 1988, New York, United States, 19 March 1988 and Berlin, Germany, 7 and 10 May 1989; correspondence relating to Executive Board elections and membership changes, October 1987 - September 1989 and copies of letters from Peter Galliner to Augsusto Pinochet (president of Chile) and Abel Hamed Brahimi (Prime Minister) relating to incidents with journalists in Chile and Afghanistan, May 1988.

Also includes the minutes, with associated papers, of the IPI British Executive Core Committee meeting attended by Peter Preston on19 March 1985 and a list of IPI Executive Board members as at May 1988.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)