Tag: 7/7

BlitzSpirit: Beyond ‘Keep Calm’ – the immediate aftermath and evolving courage of 2005. The dust hadn’t settled, literally or figuratively, when the first images started to circulate. Not of devastation, but of everyday Londoners – smeared with soot, offering water, helping the injured, directing emergency services. July 7th, 2005. Four bombs ripped through London’s transport […]

BlitzSpirit: How London responded to the 2005 attacks, and the limits of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’. The dust hadn’t settled – literally. On the morning of July 7th, 2005, London choked not on the smoke of wartime bombardment, but on the acrid tang of exploded metal and the grey grit of pulverized concrete. Commuters, […]