Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 18 October 1984

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/6
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/18 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/6 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 18 October 1984

0830

Hair [Flat – location from handwritten original]

1015

Chancellor [Nigel Lawson]

1100

Cabinet [Viscount Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Leon Brittan, Nigel Lawson, Sir Keith Joseph, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, Patrick Jenkin, John Biffen, Norman Fowler, Norman Tebbit, Tom King, Michael Jopling, Peter Rees, Nicholas Ridley, Douglas Hurd, Lord Gowrie, Lord Young of Graffham, John Wakeham]

After

S/S Scotland [George Younger] re Chairman Lothian Health Board

Lunch with Private Secretaries

1405

Depart No. 10 +MA [Michael Alison]

1415

Meeting with Mr. Speaker [Bernard Weatherill] - Speaker's H[ou]se

1500

Tributes to Lord Shinwell +MA [Michael Alison] - H/L [Emmanuel Shinwell: see 6/2/2/93 f8]

1530

Return to No. 10

1600

Briefing Meeting for Italian Bilaterals

1920

Signor Craxi arrives

Tête-à-tête

2000

Dinner in honour of Prime Minister Craxi (black tie) [+DT – No. 10]

MT Engagement Diary