Dan Hicks
@profdanhicks.bsky.social
Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
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Dan Hicks
@profdanhicks.bsky.social
· Aug 15
Every Monument Will Fall
Tracing the origins of contemporary conflicts over art, heritage, memory, and colonialism, Every Monument Will Fall joins the dots between the building of statues, the founding of academic disciplines...
www.penguin.co.uk
Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting — out now www.penguin.co.uk/books/452252...
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AP using a stock-shot of the funeral of the Queen of the United Kingdom there...
“France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view”
apnews.com/article/jewe...
apnews.com/article/jewe...
France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view
The theft of the Louvre's crown jewels has increased calls for the museum to be more transparent about the colonial origins of the treasures it displays.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
AP using a stock-shot of the funeral of the Queen of the United Kingdom there...
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"It doesn’t matter how many ceremonies you put on for the return of 10, 20, or 30 ancestors because the hundreds of thousands of other people in museum collections still need your attention."
Lisez Dan Hicks
Lisez Dan Hicks
From the brand new issue of Museums Journal, guest-edited by Gary Younge, my article on human remains in museums — "Return The Bones"; you can read it here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"It doesn’t matter how many ceremonies you put on for the return of 10, 20, or 30 ancestors because the hundreds of thousands of other people in museum collections still need your attention."
Lisez Dan Hicks
Lisez Dan Hicks
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From the brand new issue of Museums Journal, guest-edited by Gary Younge, my article on human remains in museums — "Return The Bones"; you can read it here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
From the brand new issue of Museums Journal, guest-edited by Gary Younge, my article on human remains in museums — "Return The Bones"; you can read it here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays
From the brand new issue of Museums Journal, guest-edited by Gary Younge, my article on human remains in museums — "Return The Bones"; you can read it here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
From the brand new issue of Museums Journal, guest-edited by Gary Younge, my article on human remains in museums — "Return The Bones"; you can read it here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays
a British government looting refugees displaced from former colonial protectorates now is it?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
a British government looting refugees displaced from former colonial protectorates now is it?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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💥New from me in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past bu...
jacobin.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
💥New from me in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
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ICYMI: The Oxford University Press has begun a collective consultation process, which The Bookseller understands, if approved, would result in 113 redundancies 👇 #BookSky
Oxford University Press enters collective consultation 'proposing 113 redundancies'
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November 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
ICYMI: The Oxford University Press has begun a collective consultation process, which The Bookseller understands, if approved, would result in 113 redundancies 👇 #BookSky
I found myself on the cover of the new issue of Museums Journal —
they sent a photographer to snap me outside the British Museum!🙃
check it out for my piece on ancestral human remains, guest-edited by Gary Younge ✨
they sent a photographer to snap me outside the British Museum!🙃
check it out for my piece on ancestral human remains, guest-edited by Gary Younge ✨
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I found myself on the cover of the new issue of Museums Journal —
they sent a photographer to snap me outside the British Museum!🙃
check it out for my piece on ancestral human remains, guest-edited by Gary Younge ✨
they sent a photographer to snap me outside the British Museum!🙃
check it out for my piece on ancestral human remains, guest-edited by Gary Younge ✨
‘Dan Hicks told The Art Newspaper “While the UK's Culture Secretary continues to stall on progress on allowing national museums to make returns on a case-by-case basis, British non-national museums and even private individuals are moving ahead with returns"’
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/13/p...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/13/p...
Private collectors’ return of artefacts to Ghana highlights UK's inaction on restitution, heritage experts say
British art historian Hermione Waterfield and South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti have retuned objects to Ghana's Asante Kingdom
www.theartnewspaper.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
‘Dan Hicks told The Art Newspaper “While the UK's Culture Secretary continues to stall on progress on allowing national museums to make returns on a case-by-case basis, British non-national museums and even private individuals are moving ahead with returns"’
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/13/p...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/13/p...
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Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past bu...
jacobin.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
Reposted by Dan Hicks
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal.
Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
jacobin.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal.
Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
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💥AUTUMN BOOK TOUR💥
#everymonumentwillfall in Oxford, Brighton, Paris, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, London (x3), Nottingham
dates throughout Oct-Nov 2025
details/tickets >> danhicks.uk/talks
#everymonumentwillfall in Oxford, Brighton, Paris, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, London (x3), Nottingham
dates throughout Oct-Nov 2025
details/tickets >> danhicks.uk/talks
September 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
💥AUTUMN BOOK TOUR💥
#everymonumentwillfall in Oxford, Brighton, Paris, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, London (x3), Nottingham
dates throughout Oct-Nov 2025
details/tickets >> danhicks.uk/talks
#everymonumentwillfall in Oxford, Brighton, Paris, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, London (x3), Nottingham
dates throughout Oct-Nov 2025
details/tickets >> danhicks.uk/talks
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The Migrant Futures Institute is delighted to host
@profdanhicks.bsky.social this Friday to talk about his latest book, Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
@profdanhicks.bsky.social this Friday to talk about his latest book, Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
Dan Hicks: Every Monument Will Fall
The Migrant Futures Institute is delighted to host Professor Dan Hicks to talk about his latest book, Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting.
www.gold.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Migrant Futures Institute is delighted to host
@profdanhicks.bsky.social this Friday to talk about his latest book, Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
@profdanhicks.bsky.social this Friday to talk about his latest book, Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
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So great to see @profdanhicks.bsky.social at the People's Bookshop in Durham where he was chatting about his book Every Monument Will Fall. Looking forward to reading it!
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
So great to see @profdanhicks.bsky.social at the People's Bookshop in Durham where he was chatting about his book Every Monument Will Fall. Looking forward to reading it!
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Good news for once
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark same-sex marriage precedent | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates ...
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Good news for once
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
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When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
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💥New from me in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past bu...
jacobin.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📜
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"Ultimately the message of the book is one of hope. It can take a long time for these structures and infrastructures to be dismantled. Returning looted objects, removing racist statues, or changing academic disciplines doesn’t happen overnight. Militarist realism won’t be unbuilt in a day."
💥New from me in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past bu...
jacobin.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Ultimately the message of the book is one of hope. It can take a long time for these structures and infrastructures to be dismantled. Returning looted objects, removing racist statues, or changing academic disciplines doesn’t happen overnight. Militarist realism won’t be unbuilt in a day."
💥New from me in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past bu...
jacobin.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
💥New from me in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
“France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view”
apnews.com/article/jewe...
apnews.com/article/jewe...
France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view
The theft of the Louvre's crown jewels has increased calls for the museum to be more transparent about the colonial origins of the treasures it displays.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view”
apnews.com/article/jewe...
apnews.com/article/jewe...
What a wonderful night in Edinburgh @lighthousebks.bsky.social 💥🙏
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
What a wonderful night in Edinburgh @lighthousebks.bsky.social 💥🙏
Edinburgh tonight ✨ lighthousebookshop.com/events/citie...
Lighthouse | Cities (re)claimed: dismantling geographies of oppression [Radical Book Fair]
lighthousebookshop.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Edinburgh tonight ✨ lighthousebookshop.com/events/citie...
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No better way to spend the afternoon as in the company of @profdanhicks.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
No better way to spend the afternoon as in the company of @profdanhicks.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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"I was very much in charge of" Israel's pre-emptive strike on Iran seems like a pretty big aside in an answer about the Senate filibuster.
Trump: "What the Democrats will do is make Puerto Rico a state, make DC a state, they're gonna pack the Court. They're gonna end up with more electoral votes. They're gonna end up with 4 senators. And they're gonna do this 100%."
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"I was very much in charge of" Israel's pre-emptive strike on Iran seems like a pretty big aside in an answer about the Senate filibuster.
tune in on 20 Nov to learn about our Masters programme in Archaeology here in Oxford
Want to study #archaeology at graduate level in #Oxford?
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
tune in on 20 Nov to learn about our Masters programme in Archaeology here in Oxford