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Dan Hancox
@danhancox.bsky.social
Journalist and author from south London. Latest book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Verso 2024).
https://cursedobjects.podbean.com/
https://danhancox.substack.com/
🟡 MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World is out in paperback from @versobooks.bsky.social today 🟡 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The Inbetweeners is making a comeback, which is confusing, because I'm sure we were told by tedious culture warriors that this was against the laws of physics
October 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's had 16,000 views since Thursday, which I'm not overly surprised by, because people *really* love Burial - and Burial speaks about music with the same mesmerising passion he applies to making it danhancox.substack.com/p/burials-la...
September 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
PEOPLE OF LONDON! Mine and @kasiatee.bsky.social's podcast Cursed Objects has its very own exhibition: Cursed Objects In Museum Shops. Come to the private view on 1 May, or the live event on 8 May - both FREE, but u must sign up here www.cursedobjects.co.uk/events
April 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
open.substack.com/pub/danhanco... a new substack post about the joys of spring, asking the critical question: are straight English men gay for cherry blossom?
April 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Took this in Tokyo today!
March 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
March 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Please understand that I know v well that it is many years until the next election, and I am only posting Labour's polling numbers from 6 months after the 97 election here because it's funny
January 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The Traitors channelling...
January 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"A reimagining that recaptures the essence of Jaguar." The greatest snake oil salesman of our era
December 3, 2024 at 10:20 AM
The urban crowd's sworn enemy, the private car, at the nadir of the modern city: Bologna's Piazza Maggiore in the 1960s, when it was used as a car park 🫠
November 26, 2024 at 11:28 AM
If you're free at 1pm tomorrow, come and join this free, unticketed guided walk I'm helping lead - about the extraordinary Honor Oak riots of 1897 that saved this beautiful common land from becoming a golf course. More on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/danhanco...
November 23, 2024 at 2:21 PM