We celebrate ECHR Article 8 - Right to a Private and Family Life - in Edinburgh, where David Maxwell Fyfe grew up surrounded by the reason of the Scottish Enlightenment. He was educated George Watson's College where he won an annual scholarship until he left home at 18. #songsofthepeople
June 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Next on our #SongsofthePeople launch for #ECHR75 we're on the road to Runnymede to sing a medley from our song cycle. Follow along to discover more 🎶
January 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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We launched #SongsofthePeople for #ECHR75 in Liverpool. Here David Maxwell Fyfe met and married local girl Sylvia Harrison at St Agnes & St Pancras Church where we sang.
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January 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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#SongsofthePeople Launch for #ECHR75 | St Albans
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🎶 Dreams of Peace & Freedom Part X (International Magna Carta)
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🎶 Dreams of Peace & Freedom Part X (International Magna Carta)
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January 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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'Incredibly compelling' At our gathering yesterday, we were joined by lawyers, activists and academics to discuss how best to commemorate #ECHR75 in London. Many thanks to @doughtystreet.bsky.social for hosting us all.
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April 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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We spent our summer in Edinburgh, birthplace of David Maxwell Fyfe, performing a run of our song cycle Dreams of Peace & Freedom to celebrate the protections of #ECHR in its 75th year at C alto @edfringe.bsky.social
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Follow along to discover more 🎶 #SongsofthePeople #ECHR75
August 31, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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'Music expresses that on which it is impossible to be silent.' Song cycle Dreams of Peace & Freedom tells the forgotten story of how the European Convention on Human Rights came to be, through the eyes of David Maxwell Fyfe, its British artisan. #songsofthepeople #ECHR75
October 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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We launched #SongsofthePeople for #ECHR75 in Canterbury singing words from #MagnaCarta outside Canterbury Cathedral. Later we sang our International Magna Carta, with words from the ECHR by the Great Stour that flows through the city.
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December 27, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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#SongsofthePeople celebration of the protections of ECHR | Liverpool
📍@amnestyuk.bsky.social's Combined Human Rights & Arts Festival
A living commemoration of a living law, words from Magna Carta are set with David Maxwell Fyfe's preamble. #ECHR75
🎶 Dreams of Peace & Freedom X #soundon
📍@amnestyuk.bsky.social's Combined Human Rights & Arts Festival
A living commemoration of a living law, words from Magna Carta are set with David Maxwell Fyfe's preamble. #ECHR75
🎶 Dreams of Peace & Freedom X #soundon
June 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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We launched #SongsofthePeople for #ECHR75 in Durham singing outside @durhamcathedral where copies of #MagnaCarta are held in the Cathedral Library. Later we sang on Kingsgate Bridge over the River Wear.
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January 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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We are celebrating the protections of the European Convention on Human Rights in its 75th year. Thank you
@bestbadges.co.uk for helping us to spread the message for this important anniversary. #songsofthepeople #ECHR75
@bestbadges.co.uk for helping us to spread the message for this important anniversary. #songsofthepeople #ECHR75
May 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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#SongsofthePeople Launch for #ECHR75 | St Albans
📍@stalbanscathedral.bsky.social
🎶 Dreams of Peace & Freedom Part I (Magna Carta)
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🎶 Dreams of Peace & Freedom Part I (Magna Carta)
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January 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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We launched #SongsofthePeople for #ECHR75 in Dornoch singing @Historylinks1 where David's work is remembered and by Dornoch Burn, source of his mythical stream of natural law.
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Launch in Dornoch 🎶 | Songs of the People
Join us as we launch Songs of the People in Dornoch where as a boy David Maxwell Fyfe holidayed with his grandparents and heard tales of injustice to his fam...
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December 26, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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Our first stop is @stalbanscathedral.bsky.social
which marks the start of Magna Carta's story. It was here in 1213 that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton, first met churchmen and barons, to discuss what could be done to limit the powers of King John. #ECHR75 #songsofthepeople
which marks the start of Magna Carta's story. It was here in 1213 that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton, first met churchmen and barons, to discuss what could be done to limit the powers of King John. #ECHR75 #songsofthepeople
January 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Next we visit Writ in Water designed by Mark Wallinger with Studio Octopi to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta in 2015. Its design draws on Clause 39. #ECHR75 #songsofthepeople
January 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Runnymede is where the first Great Charter of Freedom, Magna Carta, was signed and sealed by King John in 1215. A global symbol of Freedom under the Law, there are monuments here to celebrate the written expression of natural law including The Jurors. #ECHR75 #songsofthepeople
January 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Last Sunday we travelled to Coventry to perform our song cycle Dreams of Peace & Freedom @coventrycathedral.bsky.social - a powerful global symbol of reconciliation and peace building. Follow along to discover more 🎶 #SongsofthePeople #ECHR75
October 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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On childhood holidays to Dornoch in Sutherland David Maxwell Fyfe heard stories of injustices done to his family during the late Highland Clearances at his grandmother's knee. This fed his life-long commitment to human rights. #songsofthepeople
October 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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On Saturday we travelled to Liverpool to perform pieces from our song cycle Dreams of Peace & Freedom @amnestyuk.bsky.social Combined Human Rights Festival and Arts Festival in Sefton Park. Follow along to discover more 🎶 #SongsofthePeople #ECHR75
June 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Our #ECHR75 commemoration continues on the theme of liberation. In 2020 David Maxwell Fyfe's great-grandchildren were privileged to hold a candle @HMD_UK's national ceremony to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. #HolocaustMemorialDay #songsofthepeople
January 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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It was great to attend FMQs today @parliament.scot and meet afterwards with @benmacpherson.bsky.social to talk about our project commemorating the 75th anniversary of ECHR with our song cycle, Dreams of Peace & Freedom @edfringe.bsky.social this year. #ECHR75 #songsofthepeople
June 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Last Sunday we travelled to Manchester to perform our song cycle Dreams of Peace & Freedom at the Friends Meeting House in Mount Street on World Quaker Day - which coincided with the start of the Conservative Party conference. Follow along to discover more 🎶 #SongsofthePeople #ECHR75
October 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Our first stop is the @abaesq.bsky.social monument dedicated to Magna Carta as a global symbol. It was unveiled in 1957 when David Maxwell Fyfe gave a welcome speech in Westminster Hall #ECHR75 #songsofthepeople
January 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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#SongsOfThePeople: Ahead of its 75th anniversary, two great-grandchildren of a Nuremberg prosecutor are travelling the UK singing about the European Convention on #HumanRights 👇
🔗 www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2475108... via @salisburyjournal.bsky.social
#ECHR #ECHR75 #OurRightsAndFreedoms
🔗 www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2475108... via @salisburyjournal.bsky.social
#ECHR #ECHR75 #OurRightsAndFreedoms
Great-grandchildren of Nuremberg prosecutor travel UK singing about human rights
Their journey has taken them to towns and cities connected with the Magna Carta and the convention, including Salisbury.
www.salisburyjournal.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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