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A Song for Jenny

2015 film directed by Brian Percival

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ96371333 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Song for Jenny is a 2015 British television film directed by Brian Percival and starring Emily Watson as Julie Nicholson, whose daughter Jenny was murdered in the 7 July 2005 London bombings. It is based on Nicholson's book of the same name.

Editorial summary

“A Song for Jenny” enters the record as 2015 film directed by Brian Percival. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Song, Jenny and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Song, Jenny and film.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“A Song for Jenny” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Song, Jenny and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q96371333. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2005.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “A Song for Jenny”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow A Song for Jenny primary sources, A Song for Jenny archive and Song research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “A Song for Jenny”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “A Song for Jenny” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.