Conclusion

Abstract

On 7 July 2005, four explosions devastated London’s transport network. The blasts resulted in 56 deaths, including the four perpetrators, and injured over 700 people. The news that these were coordinated attacks, not accidents, situated the unfolding confusion within a broader register of a series of twenty-first century terrorist attacks and the so-called War on Terror. In the UK context the attacks were unprecedented for a number of reasons, namely the loss of life during a single terrorist attack and the fact that the perpetrators were later described as ‘homegrown’ suicide bombers. I opened this book with a discussion of 7/7 that emphasised the event-ness or the many events of the London bombings and the possibility for each to become the focus of a work of remembrance. Here I will draw some conclusions by returning to this interest in the event-ness of 7/7 and offer some remarks about the possible futures for remembering the London bombings.