"Tit for Tat, you Buggers!": The Falklanders' response to Argentina's Invasion of South Georgia

On 19th March 1982 Argentina claimed the British-owned Islands of South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands. Evidently an ominous prelude to an invasion of the Falkland Islands, the loyal British Islanders took it upon themselves to achieve some form of retribution, even if just with a tube of toothpaste…

Vernon Bogdanor

Professor Sir Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE

Professor of Law

Vernon Bogdanor CBE is Emeritus Gresham Professor of Law, former Visiting Gresham Professor of Political History, Research Professor at King's College London, a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

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