MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY TELL

THE STORY OF

'One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard...sublime' MusicalTalk

'If our unfortunate generation has proved one thing,

it has demonstrated that the barbarian is not behind us but always underneath us ready to rise up.'

David Maxwell Fyfe

IN THE RUN UP TO NOVEMBER 2020

We will perform our song cycle

to commemorate

the two anniversaries

of the birth of human rights

& to respond to present threats to the Convention and other protections to human rights

And we will reach out

to share our story

so that others will share theirs.

‘Maxwell-Fyfe’s involvement

in drafting the ECHR was key.

In certain ways, in his very person

he also provided a living link

between the Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

just as the Universal Declaration reflected the insights and experiences of men and women who had just witnessed

and in some cases

had been personally devastated

by the events of the second world war so the text of the European Convention was moulded by a man

who had been indelibly affected

by the same epoch making events .’

FRANCESCA KLUG

A Magna Carta for all Humanity published Routledge 2015

'You have a very important story for the peace of the world'

Father Moritz Fuchs

to David Maxwell Fyfe's grandson Tom Blackmore at Nuremberg 70