In 1982 the British Army, alongside the Royal Marines, helped to recapture the Falkland Islands during the Falklands conflict against Argentina.

Canada became a kingdom in its own right on that date, but the British Parliament kept limited rights of political control over the new country that were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were surrendered in 1982 when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmission on 2 November 1982.

Geoffrey Crawley, editor of the British Journal of Photography, undertook a " major scientific investigation of the photographs and the events surrounding them ", published between 1982 and 1983, " the first major postwar analysis of the affair ".

The composition of the Constitution of Canada is defined in subsection 52 ( 2 ) of the Constitution Act, 1982 as consisting of the Canada Act 1982 ( including the Constitution Act, 1982 ), all acts and orders referred to in the schedule ( including the Constitution Act, 1867, formerly The British North America Act, 1867 ), and any amendments to these documents.

The patriation of the Canadian constitution was achieved in 1982 when the British and Canadian parliaments passed parallel acts: the Canada Act, 1982 ( 1982, c. 11 ), in London, and the Constitution Act, 1982, in Ottawa.

In UK, the parallel act passed simultaneously by the British parliament was called the Canada Act 1982.

As a bilingual act of parliament, the Canada Act 1982 has the distinction of being the only legislation in French that has been passed by an English or British parliament since Norman French ceased to be the language of government in England.

# Constitutional entrenchment of an otherwise statutory English, British, or Canadian document because of subject matter provisions in the amending formula of the Constitution Act, 1982, such as provisions with regard to the monarchy in the English Bill of Rights 1689 or the Act of Settlement 1701.

* 1982 – Droppin Well bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army detonate a bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British soldiers and six civilians.

* 1982 – Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor ( b. 1933 )

* Sir Mark Evelyn Heath-Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad ( 1975 – 1978 ), the first British Ambassador to Holy See ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government ( 1985 – 1988 ).

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

Mainstream British cinema also reflected a change in attitudes, with Heat and Dust ( 1982 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ) and Cry Freedom ( 1987 ), although these did not directly address the experiences of minorities in Britain.

* 1910 – Douglas Bader, British pilot ( d. 1982 )

In 1982, British courts recognised prior art by Peter Chilvers, who as a young boy on Hayling Island assembled his first board combined with a sail, in 1958.

Organized by his publisher Diogenes Verlag in 1982, the first major exhibition of 63 drawings by Fellini was held in Paris, Brussels, and the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York.

In 1982 Game Designers Workshop sued software publisher Edu-Ware Services for infringing upon Traveller's copyright.

* A sex scene from The Swords of Lankhmar, cut by editor Don Wollheim (" Good Heaven, Fritz, we're a family publisher ...") was published in Fantasy Newsletter # 49 ( July 1982 ).

* John Hay Whitney ( 1904 – 1982 ), U. S. Ambassador, publisher, horse breeder, socialite

* Haldor Lillenas – publisher ( 1982 )

* Quality Communications, a comic book publisher started in 1982

MicroProse was a video game publisher and developer, founded by Wild Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982 as Microprose Software.

Founded in 1982 by Bill Stealey and Sid Meier, Microprose Software Inc. was primarily known as a publisher of flight simulators, military simulations, and strategy titles for 8-bit home computers such as the Commodore 64, Apple II, and Atari 8-bit family, with titles such as Spitfire Ace and Hellcat Ace.

* James Sibley Watson ( 1894 – 1982 ), an American philanthropist, publisher, and early experimenter in motion pictures

* Dodd and Roog formed a band called Big View ( with Edge on drums ) and recorded a single called, " August Grass ", which was released on Point Records ( owned by Merton, the Thompson Twins publisher ) in 1982.

A German translation of his Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx ’ s Capital ( 1960 ), was published by the same publisher in 1979 ( and simultaneously by Das europäische Buch, West Berlin ); an English translation of the book was published by Progress Publishers in Moscow in 1982.

It was the first newspaper publisher to experiment with videotex when it launched its Viewtron system in 1982.

Harriet Stratemeyer Adams ( December 11, 1892 – March 27, 1982 ) was an American juvenile mystery novelist and publisher who authored some 200 books over her literary career.

In 1982, Let's Go signed a contract with new publisher St. Martin's Press to publish its now-six titles.

Woodruff was followed as editor by the publisher and, like Woodruff, part owner Tom Burns, who served from 1967 to 1982.

Hawkins was the Director of Strategy and Marketing at Apple Computer in 1982 when he left to found Electronic Arts ( EA ), a video game publisher.

Sam Coslow ( December 27, 1902 – April 2, 1982 ) was an American songwriter, singer, film producer, publisher, and market analyst.

Prior to the division between arcade-style racing and sim racing, the earliest attempts at providing driving simulation experiences were arcade racing video games, dating back to Pole Position, a 1982 arcade game developed by Namco, which the game's publisher Atari publicized for its " unbelievable driving realism " in providing a Formula 1 experience behind a racing wheel at the time.

Initially serialized in the pages of Young Magazine from 1982 until 1990, the work was collected into six volumes by its publisher Kodansha.

* Abbey Road: The Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studios by Brian Southall, Peter Vince and Allan Rouse, 1982, London, Patrick Stephens ( publisher ), ISBN 978-0-85059-601-4.

After this success Maulana launched his passion Nai Dunya as a weekly in 1971 as its editor, printer, publisher and proprietor till his death in 1982. Since then it has been the sole proprietorship of his youngest son Shahid Siddiqui.

* Nickname of Gabriel García Márquez ( born 1927 ), Colombian novelist, journalist, editor, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature

Along with the covers for independent publisher Capital Comics ' superhero title Nexus # 1-2 ( 1981 – 1982 ), Gulacy drew covers and an occasional story for such anthology series as Marvel's Marvel Preview and Bizarre Adventures and Eclipse Comics ' Eclipse: The Magazine.

Dragon Quests North American name had been changed due to a trademark conflict with the pen-and-paper role-playing game DragonQuest, published by wargame publisher Simulation Publications in the 1980s, until the company's bankruptcy in 1982 and purchase by TSR, Inc., which then published it as an alternate line to Dungeons & Dragons until 1987.

* Thubron, Colin ( text ) and Boursnell, Clive ( photos ), The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1982.

* The Soul's Gymnasium, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1982.

* An Ice-Cream War ; Hamish Hamilton, 1982

* The Running of the Deer ( Hamish Hamilton ) ( 1982 )

Inside The Soviet Army ( ISBN 0-241-10889-6 ; Hamish Hamilton, 1982 ; also published in the United States, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-02-615500-1 ), a book by Viktor Suvorov, describes the general organisation, doctrine, and strategy of the Soviet armed forces ( the term “ Army ” being used to cover not only the Land Forces, but also Strategic Rocket, Air Defence, Air, and Naval forces ).

* The Stone Flower Hamish Hamilton ( 1982 )