Major events in human history can be viewed as the result of the beliefs, decisions and actions of an individual or group of individuals, acting upon their interpretation of the beliefs, decisions and actions of another individual or group of individuals. Sometimes the impression is given by a particular individual, or group of individuals that their decision is final, and that no correspondence will be entered into. This usually has disastrous consequences. Despite the "you can't change the course of history" feeling we all get, this is not strictly true. We are, ultimately, each responsible for our own histories and the part they play in making up the total history of our species - if indeed that could be a quantifiable entity. Sometimes we are so pressurised by the beliefs, decisions and actions of others, that we see our very existence as threatened. This inevitably forces our hand. My own father's hand was forced in 1946 - as he fled his home in Latvia, in the wake of Soviet occupation and its resulting mass deportations, murders and enforced exiles. He left behind his entire family, including his three year old daughter. Almost half a century later, I traced my half-sister to a small farm in southern Latvia. My own daughter was born in London earlier this year. On 25th September 1996 - we have all planned to meet, for the first time in one place - taking back the control over our own histories and routing the legacies of the ideologues. Simon Purins 20/9/96