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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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ECHR 75

COMMEMORATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF ECHR  (NOVEMBER 2025) BY telling the story of how IT grew amongst the evidence of the wasteland created by the Nazis, AT THE NUREMBERG TRIALS

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​Carolling for peace and freedom

We have been travelling the country to launch Songs of the People, singing to celebrate the protections given to us by the European Convention on Human Rights in its 75th anniversary year. 

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Now it's your turn and we want you to join our #SongsofthePeople choir to carol for peace and freedom this Christmas to celebrate the ECHR.

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Winter of Liberation
 

Our #ECHR75 commemoration continues on the theme of liberation. This was happening to prison camps in Nazi Europe in January 80 years ago, as a prelude to the end of WWII. Follow our story and commemorative performances on social media

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DREAMS OF PEACE & FREEDOM 
 

A powerful, multi-layered performance exploring the birth of modern human rights through the eyes of David Maxwell Fyfe, Nuremberg prosecutor and ECHR champion with musical settings of words that inspired him.

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David Maxwell Fyfe on a rock

David Maxwell Fyfe

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

The Human's in the Telling

A New Generation of his Family

Tell the story of David's journey from

Nuremberg to Strasbourg

in live performances of a song cycle,

a filmed recording and scrapbook

What people say
Word Cloud

Filmed Recording
Dreams of Peace & Freedom: The Humans in the Telling 

In a Sussex forest, David's family explore the significance of his story under the shadow of pandemic restrictions.

Scrapbook
Letters, Transcripts, Blogs and Tweets 

Drawing on a family archive of personal papers, we follow in the footsteps of David and Sylvia, discovering their story from a world where ECHR is becoming increasingly vulnerable

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Thanks and Acknowledgements

We recognize our debt to all who have helped and supported us and we are very grateful to them.

Robert Blackmore, Lily Casson, Sue Casson Protest against Rewanda policy

‘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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Launch for ECHR75
 

To launch Songs of the People, our commemoration of ECHR75 we travelled the length of the country peddling hope and seeking inspiration

as we sang to celebrate its protections.

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