Call for papers.
On Thursday 16th April and Friday 17th April 2026, there will be a Falklands/Malvinas Conflict Conference at The University of Manchester, supported by the BCMH.
Presenting the conflict from both sides, the conference has two sets of keynote speakers. The first set is: Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman who wrote the Official History of the Falklands Campaign, and former UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and one of five current candidates for the UN Secretary General, Professor Virginia Gamba, who co-wrote with Freedman one of the first works to approach the 1982 conflict from both sides: Signals of War. Falklands/Malvinas Conflict veteran, Rear Admiral Jeremy Edmund Shackleton Larken, DSO, Captain of HMS Fearless in 1982 is in the second set of keynote speakers.
For further details see – https://www.bcmh.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Falklands-Malvinas-Conflict-Conference-Flyer-2026.pptx