Information resources on the Falklands–Malvinas conflict
The aim of the present chapter is to make public knowledge all the existing documents about the Falklands–Malvinas War preserved in the institutions of all involved governments and in other institutions with contemporary sources. In order to carry out this task we follow the well-known protocol of the University of Chicago’s Sources for History (2010).
The Falklands–Malvinas War remains an open conflict. The press in both countries recently published the heated debate that emerged during the negotiations between Theresa May and Mauricio Macri (The Guardian, 2016 and La Nación, 2016) as well as their different demands: for instance, an increase in commercial flights to the Islands, which would represent good news for their inhabitants. It would seem that as long as the debate, heated as it seems, remains circumscribed within the diplomatic arena, it will benefit the inhabitants of the Islands; and that theirs will be the decision about the Falkland–Malvinas future. We consider that in this task it would be of great benefit to have access to the historical sources about the Islands’ recent past. We would like to point out that the present chapter remains an open document which is still subject to permanent review and that further sources will be added as they become available.
1. Institutional Archives
1.1 Argentina
1.2 United Kingdom
2. Institutional repositories, libraries and museums with specialised collections on the subject
2.1 Argentina
2.2 United Kingdom
3. International Organisations Repositories
4. Media, ‘raw resources’, audio, images and videos
4.1 Argentina
4.2 United Kingdom
Introduction
After more than thirty years, the Falklands–Malvinas War remains a polemical conflict, generating intense disputes between the governments of the involved countries. While a large number of the documents listed here have been traced from the two countries directly involved, it is true that the war affected other interests. Inhabitants of the Islands have been left out of the debate. The sources presented here are organised using the protocol proposed by the University of Chicago (Chicago Manual of Style, 2010, pp. 1–2). This work has been undertaken with the idea of collaboration and service and to facilitate general public access to the sources. We have focused on primary sources and therefore left out fiction and art in general ‘created at the time an historical event occurred’ (Chicago Manual of Style, 2010, pp. 1–2) and focused on those direct primary sources that the University of Chicago calls ‘raw material’ (Chicago Manual of Style, 2010, pp. 1–2).
On 2 April 1982, under the chairmanship of Lt. facto. Gral. Leopoldo F. Galtieri, Argentine troops landed on the Falkland-Malvinas Islands in an attempt to recover this part of the territory that had been held by Britain since 1833. It was an attempt to win popular support by the military government, increasingly discredited by the consequences of economic policy and complaints of human rights violations. Large sectors of the Argentine population reacted favourably to the recovery of the Islands with demonstrations across the country. The support was, however, differently nuanced: those who considered the ‘Malvinas’ an anti-imperialist cause; those who openly supported the actions of the armed forces; and those who sympathised with the young fighters. ‘The Malvinas are Argentine, the missing too’, said the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
Press information during the war, as during the entire dictatorship, was subject to strict control. Added to this, the triumphalist tone that drove the military government, which controlled the media, ensured people were unaware of actual developments. Thus when the surrender came on 14 June 1982, Argentine bewilderment and then indignation were very deep and contributed to the final discrediting of the military. The war left 649 Argentine soldiers dead and over a thousand injured in the Islands and has to-date caused the suicide of hundreds of former fighters returning to the continent. The young soldiers who survived were instructed to maintain absolute silence about the events of the war. Even today, many demand, appearing as plaintiffs in court, that the abuse and torture of soldiers at the hands of their superiors should be investigated. There are at least one hundred complaints filed in various courts for humiliation, torture and even the murder of a soldier and the death of another by starvation.
The Falklands–Malvinas War (also known as the Falklands Conflict/Falklands Crisis/Guerra de las Malvinas/Guerra del Atlántico Sur) lasted for 74 days, between 2 April and 14 June 1982. It cost the lives of 255 British military personnel and three Falkland-Malvinas Islanders and left 777 British wounded. Official documents and files are now being made available. On the British side, it was reported in December 2012 that the British government had so far released over 3,500 official documents from 1982 related to the Falklands War. These papers were released under the 30-year rule, which states that official documents must be declassified after 30 years, that is, unless the information contained within those papers could put Britain’s national security at risk. Examples of the documents released include testimonials by then British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, given behind closed doors to the Falkland-Malvinas Islands Review Committee in October 1982; and material from The Franks Report (also known as the Falkland Islands Review). The Franks Report (1981–3), was a government report produced by the Franks Committee in 1983. It reported on decisions taken by the British government in the run-up to the landing of Argentine troops on the Falkland-Malvinas Islands in 1982:
The Falklands War of 1982 was one of the defining events of recent British history, a sudden and almost revolutionary shock to the national psyche which transformed the domestic political scene, and much else besides. There are thousands upon thousands of secret documents on the war, as one might expect, and their release on 28 December 2012 marks the beginning of analysis rather than its conclusion. We will return to them many times on this site, but here is the first bite, an upload of all of MT’s 1982 files on the topic, filmed by us in preview at the National Archives in Kew.
Much more will follow, from the archives of the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence especially (The Franks Report, 1983).
On the Argentine side, speaking on the 33rd anniversary of the start of the conflict on 2 April 2015, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina ordered the declassification of all secret documents on the Falklands–Malvinas War with Britain, giving the Argentine defence ministry 30 days to make all files on the conflict public (Argentina. Ministerio de Defensa. Archivos Abiertos).
Lieutenant Benjamín Rattenbach had chaired a commission looking into the failings of the war from an Argentine perspective. The resulting Rattenbach Report, written in December 1982, was declassified on 22 March 2012.
A documentary on the Rattenbach Report was produced by Canal Encuentro (2 April 2012) and includes exclusive material on the declassification of the report, as well as the testimonies of Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli, Rattenbach’s son Augusto, veterans Ernesto Alonso and Rodolfo Carrizo, US Ambassador Jorge Arguello and others.
1.1 Argentina
Casa Rosada. Archivo oral de las memorias de Malvinas
‘The project consists in the construction of a biographical archive of oral history about the South Atlantic conflict known as the Falklands–Malvinas War. The purpose is to let the protagonists tell their own history through their voices, allowing their families and future generations a first-hand account of the combatants’ life experiences’:
http://www.casarosada.gob.ar/pdf/archivo%20oral%20de%20las%20malvinas.pdf.
Ministerio de Defensa
Website for the Argentine Ministry of Defence Malvinas Archive. It provides access to the Informe Rattenbach, to the Veteranos de Guerra de Malvinas and to legislation on the conflict:
http://www.mindef.gov.ar/malvinas.php.
Servicio Histórico del Ejército (SHE)
Archives: The Archive contains documents produced by the Argentine army that are considered of historical value, instruments of description, guides and publications. The inventory is relatively shallow.
Institutional History: Its origins date back to the creation of the Registro Marcial on 20 August 1813. In its more contemporary form, it dates back to 1884, when the División III ‘Historia’ del Estado Mayor Permanente was formed. Throughout the 20th century it experienced different changes in its name and organisation, successively becoming División VII – Historia del Estado Mayor General del Ejército (1924); División Histórica y Geográfica del Ejército (1959); Dirección de Estudios Históricos (1961). At first it was under the administration of the war ministry (Secretaría de Guerra); and then the army commander-in-chief (Comando en Jefe del Ejército); and, finally, the army historical service (Servicio Histórico del Ejército) in 1983. In 2000, it became part of the recently created Directive for Army Historical Affairs (Dirección de Asuntos Históricos del Ejército).
Cultural and geographical context: the SHE is located in San Telmo quarter, Buenos Aires. The building belonged to the former Casa de Moneda (The National Mint) and was declared ‘national patrimony’. It shares the building with the Archivo General del Ejército, the Comisión Evaluadora del Ejército, the Instituto de Estudios Históricos del Ejército and the Jardín de Infantes del Ministerio de Defensa.
Address: Defensa 628 / 630 PB. Ciudad CABA. Buenos Aires
Url: https://www.argentina.gob.ar/buscar/malvinas
Departamento de Estudios Históricos Navales y Archivo Histórico de la Armada Argentina: Departamento de Estudios Históricos Navales de la Armada Argentina (1 January 1961–today).
Since its origins as the División Historia Naval (1957) the archive has contributed to the cultural development of the country through continuous research into and revelation of Argentina’s naval and maritime history and a specialised library on naval subjects. It keeps and preserves historical objects and documents. The Departamento de Estudios Navales rests in la Casa Amarilla (a replica of Admiral Guillermo Brown), built in the neighbourhood of de La Boca in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
Ministerio de Defensa. Archivos Abiertos. Malvinas
‘Through the decree 503/15, the President of the Nation de-classified all documentation linked to the Armed Conflict of the South Atlantic from the Archivos de las Fuerzas Armadas (the Armed Forces Archive) and instructed the Ministry of Defence to make all documents and registers publicly accessible within thirty days. The following link gives you access to the necessary information about the requirements of each branch of the Historical Archives for consultation of the de-classified documents, as well as downloading the full indexes of all available documents and other descriptive tools of the Archives. It is recommended to read carefully the Consultation Conditions for Documents of the Armed Conflict of the South Atlantic.’
https://www.argentina.gob.ar/malvinas-1
Archive Norms and Regulations:
http://www.mindef.gov.ar/archivosAbiertos/downloads/malvinas/ejercito/descripcion_institucional.pdf.
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto. Secretaría de Asuntos Relativos a las Islas Malvinas, Georgias del Sur, Sandwich del Sur y los Espacios Marítimos Circundantes
http://eespa.mrecic.gov.ar/es/content/la-cuesti%C3%B3n-de-las-islas-malvinas-0
La cuestión de las Islas Malvinas
www.mrecic.gov.ar/es/la-cuestion-de-las-islas-malvinas.
Comunicados de Prensa sobre La Cuestión de las Islas Malvinas www.mrecic.gov.ar/es/la-cuestion-de-las-islas-malvinas.
Documentos. Naciones Unidas y Foros internacionales
https://cancilleria.gob.ar/es/politica-exterior/cuestion-malvinas
Ministerio de Educación
https://www.educ.ar/sitios/educar/seccion/?ir=archivo_historico
Designación de un comandante para las Malvinas en 1829 https://archive.org/details/Caviglia2015MalvinasSMJVolIIBallenerosLoberosMisionerosSXVIIIXIX/page/n2
Archivo General de la Nación de la República Argentina
Mission: ‘To gather, preserve and keep for public consultation all the written, photographic, filmed, video and sound-recorded material of interest to the country as a testimonial for its past, present and identity, independently of the origins of the material, official records, donations or purchases. To track public documentation in general, its preservation and destiny in permanent collaboration with the Nation’s Institutions’ (author’s translation).
It keeps historical documents such as:
• Decreto de creación de la Comandancia Civil y Militar, Buenos Aires, 10 de junio de 1829 (A.G.N. Fondo Luis Vernet, Sala VII 2-3-3t)
• Proclama de Luis Vernet en el momento de tomar posesión de su cargo, Puerto de la Soledad, 30 de agosto de 1829 (A.G.N. Fondo Luis Vernet Sala VII 2-4-6)
https://www.mininterior.gov.ar/agn/funciones.php.
1.2 United Kingdom
AIM25 Archives in London and the M25 Area
http://www.aim25.ac.uk/index.stm
Examples of repositories containing archival material on the Falklands– Malvinas included within AIM25.
King’s College London Archives (King’s College London Department of War Studies Records)
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archivespec/index.aspx.
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College London
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archivespec/collections/lhcma.aspx Address: King’s College London Archives, S3.02 Strand Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Tel. +44 (0)20 7848 2015
Fax : +44 (0)20 7848 2760
Email: archives@kcl.ac.uk.
National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum’s Archive catalogue:
http://collections.rmg.co.uk/archive.html#!asearch
Address: The Caird Library, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF
Tel: +44 (0)20 8312 6516
Email: library@rmg.co.uk.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Archives and Special Collections at Senate House Library include material relating to the Falklands Islands conflict in 1982, official statements, press releases, press cuttings, and printed books.
The Institute of Latin American Studies
Archives at Senate House Library include a donation of Falkland-Malvinas Islands press cuttings, consisting of newspaper cuttings and whole issues of newspapers relating to the Falkland-Malvinas Islands conflict. These are dated between 1978 and 1985 and include a set of cuttings relating to the impact on British libraries of the war.
Archon – The National Archives
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/
This is a portal to an electronic directory of repositories holding manuscript sources for British history and web-based information on archival resources. To find an archive in the UK and beyond:
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/find-an-archive.
Chatham House: The Royal Institute of International Affairs
http://www.chathamhouse.org/about/library/archive-and-catalogue
Address: The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House 10 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LE
Tel: +44 (0)20 7957 5700
Fax: +44 (0)20 7957 5710
Email: contact@chathamhouse.org.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
https://www.parliament.uk/cpauk
Commonwealth Secretariat
http://thecommonwealth.org/library-and-archives
Address: Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HX
All visits by the public must be arranged in advance by appointment.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7747 6164
Email: library@commonwealth.int.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-london
Address: Imperial War Museum London, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ
Tel: +44 (0)20 7416 5000
Email: contact@iwm.org.uk.
The National Archives (UK)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
‘Discovery’, the catalogue of The National Archives, holds (as of April 2015) more than 32,000,000 descriptions of records held by The National Archives and more than 2,500 archives across the country. Over nine million records are available for download.
To search Discovery: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Results will include: material held within The National Archives, material within The National Archives that is available for download only and material held within other archives.
National Maritime Museum
The Caird Library, National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF
Library / general enquiries: tel: +44 (0)20 8312 6516
Email: library@rmg.co.uk
Manuscripts, charts, atlases: email manuscripts@rmg.co.uk.
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers (IBG)). http://www.rgs.org
Address: 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR
Tel: +44 (0)20 7591 3000
Fax: +44 (0)20 7591 3001
Email: enquiries@rgs.org.
UK Parliament website
A range of reports, research publications, briefings, statements etc. are available to download.
2. Institutional repositories, libraries and museums with specialised collections on the subject
Oral sources, biographical sources, university collections, non-profit institutions and foundations, collections, etc.
2.1 Argentina
Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno de la República Argentina
Address: (Calle) Agüero 2502. CP C1425EID Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos
Aires consultas@bn.gov.ar
Memoria abierta. Selección de revistas de la época
Address: Av. Libertador 8151, (C1429BNB) CABA
Email: memoria@memoriaabierta.org.ar
http://www.memoriaabierta.org.ar/materiales/serper_malvinas.php
Red de Archivos orales de la Argentina contemporánea
The Network of Oral Archives of Contemporary Argentina (Red de Archivos Orales, RAO) is an inter-university project aimed at the generation and publishing of the testimony of the protagonists in Argentina’s recent history. The research groups that constitute the RAO constantly conduct interviews that become part of the diverse collections of the repository and give researchers, teachers and students access to such sources. Currently it contains over two hundred testimonies.
http://www.archivooral.org/busqueda_palabra.php
Museo Malvinas e Islas del Atlántico Sur
Created in June 2014 by the Argentine government in Buenos Aires. The museum depends on the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology. Through Decree 809/2014, published in the Official Gazette of the Argentine Republic on June 6, 2014, one of its principal objectives is to disseminate, communicate, exhibit and raise awareness among all the inhabitants of the nation about the Argentine sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and the South Atlantic Islands, particularly the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The Museum opened in February 2015 under the Ministry of Culture of the Argentine government. The building is on three levels and has differently themed rooms, including audio-visual displays with support of technology and tactile LCD, historical objects, literary texts, images, paintings, letters and historical documents, ambient sound, photographs, maps and plans.
Address: Av. del Libertador 8151, Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Tel.: +54 (011) 5280-0750
Email: contacto@museomalvinas.gob.ar
Web: http://www.museomalvinas.gob.ar
Museo de la Memoria. Archivo Oral de veteranos de la Guerra de Malvinas del sur de Santa Fe
“The oral archive of the Malvinas War is a record of the testimonies of veterans about their experience of participating in the South Atlantic Conflict in 1982, which includes aspects of their own life before and after the event. This task is framed in general way in the presidential decree 1245/2015, of creation of the National Oral File of Malvinas and is a task proposed and organised by the Area of Veterans of War of the UGL IX of the Pami, the Center of ex-Soldiers Fighters in Malvinas de Rosario and the Rosario Memorial Museum”. http://www.museodelamemoria.gob.ar/page/noticias/id/2146/title/Archivo-Oral-de-veteranos-de-la-Guerra-de-Malvinas-del-sur-de-Santa-Fe
Portal de datos del Sistema Nacional de Repositorios Digitales (SNRD) Under the aegis of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva; Mincyt) its aim is to publish and divulge the nation’s academic and scientific production.
http://cosechador.siu.edu.ar/bdu3/Search/Results?lookfor=malvinas&type=AllFields
2.2 United Kingdom
Birmingham: Birmingham University Library
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/libraries/search.aspx
Address: Main Library, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5828
Email: library@bham.ac.uk.
British Film Institute
BFI National Archive Enquiries
http://www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-national-archive-enquiry
BFI Reuben Library
http://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/bfi-reuben-library
Address: BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT Enquiries: http://www.bfi.org.uk/form/contact-bfi-library.
The British Library
Address: 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Switchboard: +44 (0)330 333 1144 Customer Services: +44 (0)1937 546060
Email: Customer-Services@bl.uk
Falkland Islands Collections:
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/europe/uk/falklandislands/
The British Library Sound Archive
This has a number of recordings relating to the Falklands War of 1982, including Margaret Thatcher’s speech to the House of Commons on the Argentine invasion: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/voiceshist/thatcher/.
Humanities Reference Service and Sound & Vision Reference Service
Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7831
BL telephone and email contacts list: http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/contact/list-of-contacts/.
British Library of Political and Economic Science (LSE)
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/home.aspx
BLPES Library, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7229
Email: library.enquiries@lse.ac.uk.
Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues (COPAC)
COPAC is a free, online, merged library catalogue which enables researchers and information professionals to search the catalogues of approximately ninety libraries at once. These libraries include the UK national libraries, many university libraries and specialist libraries such as the Wellcome Trust and the National Art Library at the V&A. COPAC lists materials in all different formats: e.g. books, journals, conference proceedings, theses, electronic resources, music and multi-media materials such as DVDs. You can also find rare and unique materials such as early manuscripts and archive materials. You can use COPAC as a resource discovery tool to search for resources not available in your local public or institutional library. Librarians and researchers often use COPAC to check bibliographic information.
The London Library
http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk
Address: The London Library, 14 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LG Main switchboard: +44 (0) 20 7930 7705
Email: reception@londonlibrary.co.uk
Book enquiries: +44 (0)20 7766 4745/4747.
Search25 helps you discover library resources across London and the South East; providing one-stop access to the library catalogues of nearly sixty world-renowned institutions and specialist collections within the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries. You can also see where the libraries are and find out how to visit them:
Senate House Library
http://senatehouselibrary.ac.uk
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8500 (general enquiries) or
Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8456 (subject librarian)
Email: senatehouselibrary@london.ac.uk.
Southampton: University of Southampton
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/library/
Address: University Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
Tel.: +44 (0)23 8059 2180 (general enquiries)
Email: libenqs@soton.ac.uk (general enquiries)
Archives & Special Collections:
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2721
Email: archives@soton.ac.uk.
University College London
Address: Main Library, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 7792
Enquiries: library@ucl.ac.uk
3. International Organisations Repositories
Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja. CICR. Conflicto de las islas Falkland-Malvinas: la acción del CICR en favor de los prisioneros de guerra = International Committee of the Red Cross. ICRC. Conflict of the Falkland Islands-Malvinas: the ICRC action in favour of the prisoners of war https://www.icrc.org/en/resource-centre/result?t=falkland+malvinas
Naciones Unidas. Sistema de Documentos Oficiales (ODS).United Nations. Official Document System (ODS). Searching=Búsqueda: Falkland–Malvinas: 11,135 Documents for Falkland-Malvinas search. Resolución 502 del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas de 1982.
http://www.un.org/es/comun/docs/?symbol=S/RES/502%20(1982) Resolución 505 del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas http://www.un.org/es/comun/docs/?symbol=S/RES/505%20(1982).
Global Security Organisations
‘The Argentine Seizure of The Malvinas [Falkland] Islands: History and Diplomacy’. American report from 1987 by Richard D. Chenette, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy, laying out the history and background of the disputed claims. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1987/CRD.htm.
4. Media, ‘raw resources’, images and videos
RadioTapes.com. Coverage of the Falklands–Malvinas War (1982). http://radiotapes.com/specialpostings.html#Falklands.
4.1 Argentina
Canal encuentro. Gobierno Argentino.
Programación especial a 33 años de la Guerra de Malvinas.
http://www.encuentro.gob.ar/sitios/encuentro/Noticias/getDetalle?rec_id=125767
La Nación. Search Engine: results 1–10 of 15,779 with the following keywords Malvinas + Between 17 February 1995 and 21 September 2016. The search engine does not go further back in time. Filter options include author, places, topics etc. (accessed September 2016). http://buscar.lanacion.com.ar/malvinas/date-19950217,20160921/sort-old.
Clarín. Search Engine: approximately 132,000 results. Filter options include web page, images and dates (accessed September 2016). http://www.clarin.com/buscador/?q=malvinas
4.2 United Kingdom
BBC. On this day. 1982: Argentina invades Falklands http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/2/newsid_2520000/2520879.stm.
The Guardian: Falkland Islands
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/falklands
About 533 results for Falkland Islands from today (19 August 2018) to 1982 with two news items from 1833: from The Guardian archive: ‘Observer: Buenos Aires protests the British occupation of the Falklands. South American republics appeal against British “act of aggression”’ (Sunday 8 December 1833, 15.07 GMT)
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/dec/08/falkland-islands-british-occupation-1833.
Finally, we would like to point out that the preservation, accessibility and dissemination of the Falklands–Malvinas Conflict Documents is a task under construction.
The will for transparency of the governments that guard the documentary collections, expressed sometimes in a theoretical way in the national legislations, must be fulfilled and be effective, allowing this accessibility to the citizens. Efforts have been made by both parties, by the professionals responsible for the archives and official documents, for opening, preserving and making them accessible.
The Minister of Education of Argentina, Arberto Sileoni (2009–15), during his period in the ministry, was involved in the preservation and dissemination of historical sources in general and sources from Malvinas especially. He created the Museum Malvinas e Islas del Atlántico Sur, and inspired documentation of compiled sources for the History of Malvinas (Flachsland, C., Adamoli, M.C., Farias, M. 2014). The current government, through the different departments, perseveres, giving continuity to these projects which are being developed in the Malvinas Museum and other institutions.
In the United Kingdom we can mention the creation of the National Archives Repositories with the digitalisation and accessibility of the documents that are preserved there, ‘We collect and secure the future of the government record, from Shakespeare’s will to tweets from Downing Street, to preserve them for generations to come, making it as accessible and available as possible’. (The National Archives, 2018).
The creation of Heritage Repositories, (Osuna and Rodríguez, 2018) has proven to be the most effective tool to make this accessibility of documents possible. The digitisation programmes are a fine investment for the best preservation and accessibility of the official collections. The preservation and dissemination of the documentary collections should be protected, conserved and disseminated to all administrative levels seeking the digital integration of the collections, now possible thanks to the OAI-PMH protocols. The documentary collections are also protected by several international programs such as Unesco Memory of the World which is truly inspiring: “Building peace in the minds of men and women” (Unesco, 1992–present).
Argentina Ministerio de Defensa. Archivos Abiertos. Malvinas – Colección Temática, available at: https://www.argentina.gob.ar/defensa/archivos-abiertos/instituciones-de-archivo/direccion-de-estudios-historicos-de-la-fuerza-aerea/historia-institucional-dehfaa.
The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers (2010), 16th edn (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), available at http://www.mtroyal.ca/library/files/citation/historydocumentation.pdf (accessed 19 Aug. 2018).
The Falkland Islands Review Committee (1981–3) The Franks Report Files, The National Archives, Kew, reference: CAB 292, available at http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/record?catid=69947&catln=3.
Flachsland, C., Adamoli, M.C. and M. Farias (2014) Pensar Malvinas: una selección de fuentes documentales, testimoniales, ficcionales y fotográficas para trabajar en el aula (3rd edn., Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Educación de la Nación), available at http://educacionymemoria.educ.ar/secundaria/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/pensar_malvinas.pdf.
Informe Rattenbach (1982) Resolución de la Junta Militar y acta de constitución de la Comisión de Análisis y Evaluación de las responsabilidades en el conflicto del Atlántico Sur (Cescem Corrientes), available at http://www.cescem.org.ar/informe_rattenbach/parte1_01.html.
Informe Rattenbach Documental (2012) Canal Encuentro, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnEHb4nauoA
Margaret Thatcher Foundation (2012) Margaret Thatcher’s files on the Falklands, available at http://www.margaretthatcher.org/archive/falklands-PREM19.asp (accessed 19 Aug. 2018).
La Nación (2016) ‘Malvinas: la cronología de la polémica tras el acuerdo del Gobierno con Gran Bretaña. Las idas y vueltas comenzaron hace once días, con la firma de una declaración que mencionaba el aumento de los vuelos desde el continente y acuerdos para la explotación de petróleo’, La Nación (21 Sept.), available at http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1939919-malvinas-la-cronologia-de-polemica-tras-el-acuerdo-del-gobierno-con-gran-bretana (accessed 19 Aug. 2018).
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