ABSTRACT
It took time to realise that a major event was unfolding in London on 7 July 2005, and that life in London would never quite be the same again. It was hard to realise that it might turn out to be one of those events that disrupts linear visions of time and memory you would recall in ways that can define the experience of a generation. If you can remember where you were when the news that President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, it can help to locate yourself in generational time and help shape cultures. If you can recall the moment when you heard the nuclear plant at Chernobyl had exploded, spreading nuclear dust over Europe, or when Princess Diana was killed in Paris, or when you first realised there had been an attack on the Twin Towers in New York, these very different events can help to locate you in time and space.
