Chapter 6 looks at the aftereffects of the Falklands War, with a particular emphasis on identity and contested ideas of the nation. While the so-called Falklands factor purportedly helped Thatcher win the 1983 general election, her claim that Britain had ‘ceased to be a nation in retreat’, having found itself again in the South Atlantic, belied the cracks beneath the surface of British political culture. The Falklands magnified latent tensions over the meaning of Britishness, and the Islands themselves reappeared in times of crises as a paradigm of the divergent views on national identity in Britain. Returning to the Falkland Islands, this chapter explains how the Kelpers were drawn into this fragmenting dialogue, as the post-war period exposed the hollowness of the Greater British rhetoric of the war.