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Songs of the People
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Members of the family of David Maxwell Fyfe, leading British prosecutor at Nuremberg Trials and ECHR artisan, sing his story #SongsofthePeople
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'An incredible song cycle and a really unique piece of theatre' Kate Massey, Canon for Arts & Reconciliation @coventrycathedral.bsky.social. Dreams of Peace & Freedom was enthusiastically received in a place that has become symbolic of reconciliation since it was bombed 85 years ago this year.
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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At the invitation of @nihrc.bsky.social we are delighted to be bringing our song cycle Dreams of Peace & Freedom to Belfast to close Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival this December #ECHR75

📍Black Box Theatre
🗓️ 13th December 2025
⌚19:30

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November 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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This year we're celebrating the protections of ECHR in its 75th anniversary year with performances of Dreams of Peace & Freedom. @coventrycathedral.bsky.social we performed on the steps of the Chapel of Unity - a powerful symbol of peace building across nations.

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November 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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'Friends absolutely loved your event and we are so glad and grateful we were able to host you.' Stephanie Butland, organiser of Dreams of Peace & Freedom at the Quaker Meeting House in Newcastle. The performance was also live-streamed
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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For #ECHR75 we are touring the country performing Sue Casson's song cycle Dreams of Peace & Freedom to commemorate this important anniversary and celebrate its protections. 

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Time Present, Time Past and Time Future | Songs Of The People
Present & past performances commemorating 75 years of ECHR & celebrating its protections.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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This year we're celebrating the protections of ECHR in its 75th anniversary year with performances of Sue Casson's Dreams of Peace & Freedom. Following our performance in Manchester, we went on to Newcastle - hosted once more by Quakers in Gosforth.

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November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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'A very ambitious project' @itvnews.bsky.social's @itvpeston.bsky.social at #songsofthepeople on the eve of Conservatives Party Conference 25. This 75th anniversary year we are telling the ECHR's story in words & music through the eyes of its artisan David Maxwell Fyfe in Dreams of Peace & Freedom.
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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'It inspired many. The audience went away moved to take what actions they can.' Sue Johnson, an organiser of our performance on World Quaker Day at the Friends Meeting House in Manchester. This year's theme 'love they neighbour' chimed with ECHR's respect for the dignity of all.
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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This year we're celebrating the protections of ECHR in its 75th anniversary year with performances of Dreams of Peace & Freedom. As @conservatives.bsky.social announced withdrawal from ECHR we performed in Manchester at the Friends Meetingg House

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November 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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'The Legal Advice Centre & our volunteer law firms have very much enjoyed working with you in support of your valuable work.' Michelle Waite. Throughout our year of #ECHR75 commemoration in Liverpool 'birthplace of human rights' we have enjoyed a fruitful partnership with @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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This year we're celebrating the protections of ECHR in its 75th anniversary year with Dreams of Peace & Freedom. In Liverpool we sang @amnestyuk.bsky.social's Combined Human Rights Festival & Arts Festival in Sefton Park, where David married Sylvia.

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November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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'Maxwell Fyfe's reflections remind us that... what must remain constant is the right to dignity and respect for all.' Professor Angela O'Hagan, Chair Scottish Human Rights Commission

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November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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'A love letter to the values of peace, freedom and remembrance'

Our song cycle Dreams of Peace & Freedom was featured in @scotnational.bsky.social in @laura-pollock.bsky.social's 'I tried to go to 10 Fringe shows in a day'

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November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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'Keir Starmer backs Edinburgh Fringe show celebrating 75 years of the ECHR'

Our letter of support from the Prime Minister's Office for our celebration of #ECHR75 @edfringe.bsky.social was covered by @irishlegal.com

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November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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This year we're celebrating the protections of ECHR in its 75th anniversary year with performances of Dreams of Peace & Freedom. We spent our Summer of Freedoms in Scotland, playing for 2 weeks in Edinburgh, David Maxwell Fyfe's birthplace at C venues #EdFringe25.
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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This time last year we travelled the UK singing to celebrate the protections given to us by the ECHR at the start of its 75th anniversary year. We started in Dornoch, where David Maxwell Fyfe's lifelong commitment to human rights began.

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‘Songs of the People’ launch in Dornoch kickstarts commemoration of 75th year of European Convention on Human Rights
Maxwell Fyfe was made a Freeman of Dornoch in 1962 and is remembered as part of an exhibition at the town’s Historylinks museum.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This year the family of David Maxwell Fyfe, the British artisan of ECHR are 'honouring their forebear's achievements in the way they know best, through a song cycle, Dreams of Peace & Freedom.' Susy Macaulay @pressandjournal.co.uk

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November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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'The song cycle commemorates the 75th anniversary of the signing of ECHR through the eyes of Tom Blackmore's grandfather, British artisan, David Maxwell Fyfe.' Lynne Mahoney, curator of Historylinks Museum

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November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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This year we're celebrating the protections of ECHR in its 75th anniversary year with Dreams of Peace & Freedom. We began our commemoration in Dornoch, the source of David Maxwell Fyfe's Stream of Natural law, in the Cathedral of St Mary.

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November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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At the invitation of @nihrc.bsky.social we are delighted to be bringing our song cycle Dreams of Peace & Freedom to Belfast to close Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival this December #ECHR75

📍Black Box Theatre
🗓️ 13th December 2025
⌚19:30

Book tickets 🎟️⬇️
www.tickettailor.com/events/human...
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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'Jackson made a really superb speech' #OnThisDay 80 years ago, Robert Jackson opened the Nuremberg Trials. As #NurembergFilm is released in UK, letters written to his wife Sylvia by David Maxwell Fyfe (Richard E Grant) reveal his admiration of the American lead prosecutor. #OTD
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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'Blow bugles blow for Honour, pays with a Royal wage, Nobleness walks our ways again' Sue Casson's setting of Brooke's poem in Dreams of Peace & Freedom IV evokes the idealism of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, which Robert H Jackson opened #OnThisDay 80 years ago.

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November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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80 years ago today, the Nuremberg Trials opened. Tom Blackmore, grandson of British prosecutor, David Maxwell Fyfe, and Niklas, son of Hans Frank, Hitler's man in Poland, talk with James Coomarasamy on BBC Radio 4's World Tonight.

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The World Tonight - Reports of US peace plan for Ukraine - BBC Sounds
We hear from a journalist on a reportedly new US-led plan for peace in Ukraine
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November 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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'That 4 great nations... submit their captive enemies to the judgement of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason' #OnThisDay 80 years ago, Robert Jackson opened the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. #NurembergFilm #OTD
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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'You must have been going raving mad listening to that other stuff' As #NurembergFilm is released in UK, letters exchanged between British prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe (Richard E Grant) & wife Sylvia, reveal frustration at the way Goering is being cross-examined at the Trials.
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM