ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the disturbances that are produced in individual and communal lives when ‘events’ that people want to identify as exceptional and singular show themselves to be repeatable. Many people in London felt relieved after 7/7 knowing that an ‘event’ that was expected for so long after New York, Bali and Madrid had finally come to London and, however scary it had been, they had survived it and hopefully could return to some form of ‘normal life’. But it was this expectation that was shattered in the shift of mood that took place as urban fears were intensified through the second wave of attempted bombings on the 21 July 2005, exactly two weeks later, again on a Thursday. It proved that others could imitate or copy once an ‘event’ had taken place.
