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SONGS OF
THE PEOPLE
'Let me write the songs of the people
and I care not who makes their laws.'
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
COMMEMORATING THE DUAL ANNIVERSARIES OF
IMT NUREMBERG (80TH) & THE SIGNING OF ECHR (75TH)
NOVEMBER 2025
David Maxwell Fyfe
British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials who went on to champion and draft the European Convention on Human Rights
A New Generation of his Family
Tell the story of his journey from Nuremberg to Strasbourg in live performances of a song cycle, a filmed recording, scrapbook and podcast
What people say
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As human rights - what they are, how they came to be and how best to protect them remain a subject for debate, Songs of the People shines the light of the past on the questions being asked today. The title is taken from Andrew Saltoun's quotation - a favourite of David's.
DREAMS OF PEACE & FREEDOM
A new generation of his family have conceived and perform a song cycle weaving his words with original musical settings of words that inspired him, played against a backdrop of archive film, text and words.
‘What began as a celebration has become a call to arms’
These words spoken by Helen Mountfield, Principal of Mansfield College express our journey of the last 5 years as we have responded to the changing political climate
Forgotten a Pathway to Rememberance
Perfomances of Dreams of Peace and Freedom in the build up to Rememberance to fill the silence