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SONGS OF
THE PEOPLE

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'Let me write the songs of the people

and I care not who makes their laws.'

Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

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COMMEMORATING THE DUAL ANNIVERSARIES OF
IMT NUREMBERG (80TH) & THE SIGNING OF ECHR (75TH)
NOVEMBER 2025

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David Maxwell Fyfe

British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials who went on to champion and draft the European Convention on Human Rights

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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.

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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.

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‘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 

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Forgotten a Pathway to Rememberance

Perfomances of Dreams of Peace and Freedom in the build up to Rememberance to fill the silence

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