Thanks all for your many replies!
I looked again in Campbell & Oliver's book, and found a date of 1995
mentioned for the name change, although no further detail, but that
will do for citation purposes, at least for now.
Steve
On 28/08/2013, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear All
>
> I would agree with Colin's date vis-a-vis BCODP - it was around 1993/4.
> There was also a debate within the debate about changing the name altogether
> initiated by Stephen Brawshaw. He felt "British" excluded disabled people
> from Northern Ireland. He wanted UKDPC and after 2000 that was the decision
> taken. I disagreed with the name change.
>
>
> Bob Williams-Findlay - former BCODP Chairperson
> From: Colin Barnes <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 12:24
> Subject: FW: BCODP name change question
>
>
> Dear All
>
> I forwarded the following to Steve this morning.
>
> Colin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Barnes
> Sent: 28 August 2013 07:48
> To: Steven Graby
> Subject: Re: BCODP name change question
>
> Dear Steve
>
> As far as I can recall the name change occurred in 1993/4. Although this was
> a controversial decision it was deemed necessary so disabled individuals
> could join BCOCP. Hitherto membership was theoretically limited to
> organisations controlled and run by disabled people.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Colin
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 28 Aug 2013, at 02:44, "Steven Graby" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> its title to become simply the British Council of Disabled People?
>>
>> There seems to have been something of an erasure of history here -
>> while, with a bit of searching, it is not *too* hard to find out when
>> the BCODP ceased to be the BCODP and became the UKDPC, every site I
>> can find online that mentions the acronym BCODP at all claims that it
>> was founded in 1981 as the 'British Council of Disabled People' - but
>> I know from several earlier sources that it was founded as the British
>> Council of *Organisations of* Disabled People.
>>
>> Colin Barnes and Geoff Mercer's 2006 book 'Independent Futures'
>> mentions that it changed its name, but does not give either a "when"
>> or a "why" (though it at least implicitly tells me it was before
>> 2006).
>>
>> I can't find anything in the archives of the CDS or of 'Disability and
>> Society' either.
>>
>> Can anyone help? Is there any documentation of this?
>>
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