Tag: Graham Bound

• Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 14:23 UTC

  Journal bought for Falklands Museum gives first-hand account of 1914 Battle

  

  A journal recently acquired at auction by the Friends of the Falklands Museum and Archives (FIMA Friends) gives a remarkable personal account of the 1914 Battle of the Falklands. The unique manuscript, illustrated with contemporary newspaper cuttings, reveals that, despite the appalling carnage, a strong sentiment of mutual respect survived.

• Saturday, August 27th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Behind the lines in 1982: A story of journalistic bravery

  

  By Graham Bound (Stanley, FI) – Days were short during the occupation of 1982, and everything in Stanley seemed hostile and frightening. Our situation was hardly any safer when the watery winter sun went down and the Argentine-imposed curfew forced us indoors. But within whichever substantial building one chose to shelter, with windows blacked out and peat stoves glowing, there was comfort and at least the perception of safety.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  That’s a fine mess you got out of, Stanley

  

  By Graham Bound for MercoPress – Images of Stanley captured in 1982 compared with photos taken from the same vantage points 40 years on, show a town – now a city – transformed.

• Monday, April 4th 2022 - 21:52 UTC

  Falklands newsman would like an apology for 1982

  

  While Argentina's Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero wrote for The Guardian last week that his country posed a threat to no one, Graham Bound, founder of Port Stanley's Penguin News, told the Spanish newswire service EFE that the presence of British troops on the islands did serve a purpose.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2022 - 23:06 UTC

  A photographic exhibition commemorates the Falklands conflict 40 years later

  

  April 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of the Falklands War, a 74-day conflict fought over the Falkland Islands. Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust is commemorating this anniversary through a photographic exhibition and gallery display.

• Saturday, February 12th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  “Everything Changed”, A Falkland Islander’s Photographic Record of Invasion, Occupation, War and Aftermath

  

  By Graham Bound – “Light falls on the faces and the eyes of men. Even from a distance of four decades, we gain a glimpse of their emotions: despair, pride, exhaustion, determination, and fear”

• Friday, August 18th 2017 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands' Museum incorporates naval journal with accounts of Port Egmont 250 year ago

  

  Two hundred and fifty years on, the story of a bold Falklands naval adventure has been purchased for the local museum in Stanley. Friends of the Falkland Islands Museum and Jane Cameron National Archives (FIMA Friends) executive committee member Alexandra ‘Zaz’ Shackleton was browsing at the regular antiquarian travel book fair at the Royal Geographical Society in London, when she came across a volume that she immediately knew belonged in the Falklands.

• Friday, December 11th 2015 - 07:24 UTC

  Welcome Mauricio! But what exactly are your plans?

  

  By Graham Bound, London - Mauricio Macri: I roll the syllables of that rather pleasantly alliterative name over my tongue as I draw him into one of my columns for the first time.

• Monday, January 28th 2013 - 19:00 UTC

  “Fortress Falklands” Spanish version of G. Bound latest book launched in Uruguay

  

  “Fortress Falklands, life under siege in Britain’s last outpost”, Graham Bound’s newest book on the subject of the Falkland Islands has been published in Spanish in Uruguay, allowing Argentines to, “learn a thing or two that might surprise them,” Graham told Penguin News this week.

• Monday, June 18th 2012 - 00:12 UTC

  Cameron will personally present Falklands message to Kirchner

  

  By Graham Bound, London - Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez will get her wish on Monday or Tuesday, when she meets Prime Minister David Cameron in the fringes of the G20 meeting in Mexico to talk about the Falkland Islands.