File 8 - Falkland Islands

2 files

Peter Preston's records relating to the handling of the press and the enquiries that followed the Falklands War, December 1977 - September 1986.

Includes: memorandums on the handling of press and public relations during the Falklands conflict, cJune 1982 - July 1982; photocopies of evidence, with associated correspondence, submitted to the Falkland Islands Inquiry, August 1982; correspondence concerning Preston's evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee's inquiry into the handling of public and press information during the Falklands Island crisis and Falkland Islands Review Committee, September - October 1982; and photocopy of Peter Preston's evidence given to the 'Defence Committee on the handling of press and public information during the Falklands conflict', October 1982.

Also contains a number of published pamphlets and reports including:

'House of Commons Defence Committee session 1981-82 memoranda on the handling of press and public information during the Falklands conflict', 22 July 1982

'first report from the Defence Committee 1982-83 HC 17-I-II the handling of press and public information during the Falklands conflict', March 1983

'The Defence of Britain' by EP Thompson, June 1983

'House of Commons first report from the Defence Committee session 1982-83 - the handling of the press and public information during the Falklands conflict volume 1: report and minutes of proceedings', December 1982

Final revise of 'The Falklands Campaign; the lessons', December 1982

'Falkland Islands Review - report of a Committee of Privy Councillors' January 1983

'House of Commons fifth report from the Foreign Affairs Committee session 1983-84 Falkland Islands volume 1', December 1984

Uncorrected proof of 'The Battle for the Falklands' by Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins, 1983.

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Subject to access restrictions under DPA and business confidentiality.